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Sholtys, Phyllis A. – CAUSE/EFFECT, 1988
With the current state of computing and data communication technology, connecting widely dispersed, multivendor computing resources is a complex and expensive undertaking. Network strategies and management issues are discussed. (MLW)
Descriptors: College Administration, Computer Networks, Higher Education, Local Area Networks
Sheehan, Mark – CAUSE/EFFECT, 1998
In response to concerns about the cost of keeping up with individual desktop computing technology, several new solutions have emerged. Referred to as "thin clients," or network-centric computers, they include two types of desktop device: the network computer and the Windows terminal. Purchase cost, life span, support costs, and overall total cost…
Descriptors: College Administration, Computer Networks, Cost Effectiveness, Costs
CAUSE/EFFECT, 1988
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.…
Descriptors: College Administration, Computer Networks, Computer Uses in Education, Computers
Sholtys, Phyllis – CAUSE/EFFECT, 1987
"Downsizing" has become the newest catchword as more and more traditional applications are being implemented on microcomputers or in a cooperative processing environment encompassing both micro and mainframe capability. Organizational adaptation to the change occurring in the computer industry is discussed. (MLW)
Descriptors: College Administration, College Planning, Computer Networks, Coordination
Lykke, Peter – International Journal of Institutional Management in Higher Education, 1988
Micro-computers and local area networks are opening up new possibilities for streamlining the administrative support system of universities and decentralizing decision making. Such decentralization needs to be complemented by improved coordination between units responsible for different application systems. (Author/MLW)
Descriptors: College Administration, Computer Networks, Cooperation, Decentralization
CAUSE/EFFECT, 1988
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.…
Descriptors: College Administration, College Faculty, Computer Networks, Computer Uses in Education
Temares, M. Lewis – CAUSE/EFFECT, 1989
John Sculley, the chairman of the board of Apple Computer, Inc., discusses information technology management, management strategies, network management, the Chief Information Officer, strategic planning, back-to-the-future planning, business and university joint ventures, and security issues. (MLW)
Descriptors: College Administration, College Environment, Computer Networks, Computer Uses in Education
CAUSE, Boulder, CO. – 1991
Five papers from the 1990 CAUSE conference's Track III, Organization and Personnel are presented. The papers share ways in which professionals are preparing organizationally for the challenges and opportunities of managing information technology in the future, including such subjects as the kinds and availability of human resources that are…
Descriptors: Budgeting, Case Studies, College Administration, Computer Networks
CAUSE, Boulder, CO. – 1991
Seven papers from the 1990 CAUSE Conference Track VII: Managing Applications and Technology are presented. Authors describe how colleges and universities are incorporating emerging technologies into their campus environments: hardware; software; and procedural techniques. Papers and their authors are as follows: "The Iowa Student Information…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, College Administration, College Planning, Communication Audits
Glover, Robert H. – CAUSE/EFFECT, 1988
The financial challenges facing higher education, recent trends in information technology that affect institution directions, the need for shared visions, plans, and professional leadership for campus technology, and the importance of information center support are reviewed. A wide range of benefits colleges and universities are realizing in…
Descriptors: College Administration, Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Networks, Computer Software

Friedman, Charles P.; Corn, Milton; Krumrey, Arthur; Perry, David R.; Stevens, Ronald H. – Academic Medicine, 1998
Examines how beliefs and concerns of academic medicine's diverse professional cultures affect management of information technology. Two scenarios, one dealing with standardization of desktop personal computers and the other with publication of syllabi on an institutional intranet, form the basis for an exercise in which four prototypical members…
Descriptors: Administrator Attitudes, Allied Health Occupations Education, College Administration, Computer Networks