A progress report on the Center for the Study of Higher Education (CASE) National Donor Data Base Project is presented. The project, which began in June 1987, has proceeded in several phases: (1) data base design; (2) acquisition of data from participating institutions; (3) development of software to load each institution's data into the donor…

Discusses the need for information science schools to prepare graduates for computer use and database design, and reports the findings of a survey of schools that examined the extent to which such courses are taught and the content of those courses. Questions and suggestions about the teaching of database design are also discussed. (four…