Campus Computing Goals and Strategies
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The following goals are proposed to meet the computing needs of the
campus over the next five (5) years (1994 - 1999) and to address those strategies, goals, and objectives outlined in the Potsdam College Strategic Plan (1988):
- Enhance access to information and promote effective communication for all members of the campus community.
- Maximize effectiveness of administrative staff by enabling the efficient collection, processing and analysis of information for instructional, institutional and research needs.
- Maximize effectiveness of faculty for curricular development, classroom teaching, advising and research.
- Improve students' information acquisition skills and enhance their personal productivity and professional options.
- Establish efficient and effective use of computer acquisition funds in order to minimize equipment, training, and maintenance costs for information systems and their users.
- Provide an on-going process of planning for and development of computing resources which allows for annual review and updating.
- Provide computer-related public service as time and resources allow.
To effectively meet our computing needs we have developed the following
computing strategies which draw upon principles and strategies widely supported
in the computing industry and in leading institutions of higher learning.
- The end-users and their desktops "...should become the center of a network universe consisting of concentric spheres of information access.(1)
Individuals at Potsdam College will have access to personal productivity tools and information that may reside on their personal computers, elsewhere on-campus, within SUNY or at any one of thousands of remote sites around the world.
- Computing resources should meet the standards set by our campus hardware and software policies.
- The logical and physical support infrastructure for end-users should be their offices or departments.
- Commercial software products should be used wherever possible to minimize development costs and ensure adequate support.
- The location of information in centralized and local databases should be transparent to the end-user. That is, individuals may not know where the information they are using is stored, but they should be able to access and use it as easily as if it were stored on their desktop computers.
(1) Hawkins, B. L. Campus-wide Networking at Brown University. Academic
Computing, Vol. 3, No. 5, January, 1989, pg. 33.
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This document prepared by Robert Jewett. Email: (jewettrj@potsdam.edu).