SIGUCC (Tutorial/Panel Session)

Abstract

Evaluating theDespite restricted budgets, most colleges and universities continue to experience a rise in demand for computing resources for instructional purposes.The cost of such service and its educational importance are becoming matters of critical concern both on and off campus. Although periodic efforts have been made to survey colleges and universities about expenditures and hardware resources, no serious effort to establish a normative standard has taken place since the initial effort of the President's Science Advisory Board in 1967. No effort at all has been made to establish standards of quality independent of cost. An NSF project began with a survey of representative institutions in an effort to determine what kinds of measures are now in use, as a basis for the design of criteria that would De aceeptaSle and meaningful to a large range of institutions. A second effort was to develop procedures and standards in terms of which these measures can be evaluated. Findingsof the project will be reported in this session. A lively panel discussion will follow the presentation.