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School Business Affairs, 1986
The University of Pittsburgh has a 2-year agreement designating the Xerox Corporation as the primary supplier of word processing and related office automation equipment in order to increase productivity and more efficient use of campus resources. (MLF)
Descriptors: Automation, Database Management Systems, Higher Education, Office Practice
Petura, Barbara B. – Currents, 1986
Until computers revolutionized the process of preparing hometown news releases, they were the most tedious job of the college news services. Word processors merge data on individual students with a basic 'shell' story. The computer can generate better, more personalized stories, process standard stories more efficiently, and distribute releases…
Descriptors: Computer Oriented Programs, Higher Education, Institutional Advancement, News Media
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McKenzie, Garry D. – Journal of Geological Education, 1984
The expanded use of microcomputers, including word processing, to improve productivity of geological educators and students is discussed. Topic areas examined include: computer development and academic use; word processing with microcomputers; instructional uses and other applications; impacts on academia; and acquisition. (BC)
Descriptors: College Science, Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Oriented Programs, Geology
Winans, Glen T. – 1986
This paper presents a descriptive review of how the Provost's Office of the College of Letters and Science at the University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB) implemented 330 microcomputers in the 34 academic departments from July 1984 through June 1986. The decision to implement stand-alone microcomputers was based on four concerns: increasing…
Descriptors: Administration, College Faculty, Departments, Environmental Influences
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Flinn, Jane Zeni; Madigan, Chris – WPA: Writing Program Administration, 1989
Describes the logistics and underlying principles of a summer institute for writing teachers (sponsored by the Gateway Writing Project) which integrates word processing into the writing experience. Discusses how writing program administrators can apply this information to setting up workshops with their own staff. (MM)
Descriptors: College School Cooperation, Computer Uses in Education, Higher Education, Inservice Teacher Education
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Robins, Cindy; And Others – Journal of the Society of Research Administrators, 1986
The use of microcomputers for informing principal investigators of due dates for continuation and renewal proposals and for tracking proposals from submission to award or withdrawal/rejection in multiple-project research programs is discussed. (MSE)
Descriptors: Business Communication, Computer Oriented Programs, Computer Software, Grantsmanship
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Wresch, William – Journal of Computing in Higher Education, 1993
Recent studies at four colleges and universities (West Virginia University; University of Cincinnati, Ohio; Johnson County Community College, Kansas; University of Texas, El Paso) indicate that comprehensive writing tools software can improve both student writing performance and pass rates for disadvantaged students. (Author/MSE)
Descriptors: Achievement Gains, Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Software Evaluation, Educationally Disadvantaged
CAUSE, Boulder, CO. – 1990
Seven papers making up Track IV of the 1989 conference of the Professional Association for the Management of Information Technology in Higher Education (known as CAUSE; an acronym of the association's former name) are presented in this document. The focus of Track IV is on policy and standards issues and the papers include: "Developing…
Descriptors: Computer Uses in Education, Foreign Countries, Guidelines, Higher Education
Association of Research Libraries, Washington, DC. Office of Management Studies. – 1984
This document, the 10th in a series distributed annualy to provide a central source of timely information and materials on the management and operations of large academic and research libraries, presents the results of a 1984 Systems and Procedures Exchange Center (SPEC) survey of microcomputer use in the Association of Research Libraries (ARI)…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Equipment Utilization, Higher Education, Library Administration
Strickland, Dorothy S.; And Others – 1987
Noting that the proliferation of computers in the schools requires teachers to know the best ways to use them, this book shows how the computer can be used in a reading and language arts curriculum as tool, tutor, and tutee with currently available software. Chapter one defines the reading process in terms of its relationship to background…
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Managed Instruction, Computer Software, Copyrights
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Pennington, Martha C. – Computers and the Humanities, 1993
Asserts that research into the effects of word processing on student writing is dependent on established writing skills, keyboarding techniques, human intervention, and the established criteria for good writing. Concludes that nonnative writers may benefit in significant ways from the attributes of word processing. (CFR)
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Computer Uses in Education, Curriculum Development, Elementary Secondary Education