The Computer Center at California State University, San Bernardino, provides centrally managed computing hardware and software to support both administrative users and academic programs. The center provides access to four computer systems which allow students a wide range of computing experiences. Instructional computing, administrative computing,…

Describes New Haven (Connecticut) Public Schools' decentralized computer network system, which links its 42 schools electronically, keeps better track of students, and has allowed the district to centralize its school registration. A sidebar describes New Haven's computerized curriculum network designed to help teachers track students' daily…

Providing adequate computing lab support for Management Information Systems (MIS) and Computer Science (CS) programs is a perennial challenge for most academic institutions in the US and abroad. Factors, such as lack of physical space, budgetary constraints, conflicting needs of different courses, and rapid obsolescence of computing technology,…

The computing and information services (CIS) organization includes administrative computing, academic computing, and networking and has three divisions: computing services, development services, and information services. Other computing activities include Health Sciences, Humanities Computing Center, and Department of Computer Science and Systems.…

Faced with an increasing need for data by the West Liberty State College administration and the West Virginia Board of Regents, an in-house system was designed that provides online update/inquiry to an integrated, nonredundant collection of data files via user-friendly menus. (Author/MLW)

As seen in the proposed Maryland School Performance Program, need to synthesize data into meaningful information and ability to explore data relationships could be keys to improved student achievement. Montgomery County's School Based Instructional Monitoring System (SIMS) will permit its instructional leadership staff to examine and interrelate…

Despite the decentralized nature of computing at Vanderbilt, there is significant evidence of cooperation and use of each other's resources by the various computing entities. Planning for computing occurs in every school and department. Caravan, a campus-wide network, is described. (MLW)

Each Harvard school manages its own computing needs and has its own administrative computing applications. Central administration maintains management information about university resources, policies, and administrative programs for which it is responsible. (MLW)

Major University of Nebraska computing and information technology objectives include: the study of alternative means of transmitting voice, video, and data; developments of instructional and administrative uses of satellite and closed-circuit television and audio communications; continue work toward a student information system, etc. (MLW)

This interim report describes the development of a networked computerized classroom language management and recording system to assist teachers of children who are deaf or hard-of-hearing. The system will provide storage and access capability for such information as changes in instruction, language learning progress, modifications in communication…

Planning for information technology, computer services, computer hardware, administrative computing, academic computing, and office automation/networking at Austin Peay State University are described. (MLW)

An overview of some fundamentals and issues of concern related to networking projects and their payoffs are presented. There is currently no available single product to monitor and diagnose problems within a complex network, so network management must utilize many tools from multiple vendors to troubleshoot and manage network resources. (MLW)

Development of the newly federally authorized National Research and Education Network should offer administrative computing and communications organizations at institutions of higher education new levels of network capacity, connectivity, and reliability. Administrative applications will include improved professional communications, sharing of…

Grinnell College offers a curriculum that integrates computing throughout, with a classroom emphasis on using the computer to help the faculty teach, rather than obtain products to supply the teaching. Organization and planning, hardware and communications, administrative computing, public computing areas, and desktop publishing are discussed.…

Computerized workstations at a teaching hospital were developed so that physicians in training could integrate and automate some of their information management tasks. The project is part of the National Library of Medicine's Integrated Academic Information Management Systems program at Georgetown University School of Medicine. (Author/MLW)