Private Liberal Arts College

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Private Liberal Arts College

• Need an institutional strategic plan vision,
  objectives, goals
• need to really understand our mission
• do we really want to embrace this expensive
  technology in a big way?
• if so, how do we pay for it?
• we found ourselves coming back to this need again
  and again during our discussion

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• A comprehensive consideration of resource
  allocation is necessary
• numerous competing items
• salaries
• infrastructure support
• capital campaign resources
• financial aid
• others

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• Benchmarking best practices
• we mention these because there was a great deal
  of concern about the real costs of studying the
  value of information technology for our small
  institution
• the world does not stand still as we evaluate
• is there a way we can leverage other studies to
  answer our questions regarding value?

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• Information Technology as a component to attract
  and retain faculty
• the importance of web access
• the value of an electronic library
• NSF currently requires some submissions be made
  via the Internet

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• Information Technology as a component to
  attract/retain students
• does technology influence students choices about
  attending an institution?
• is a single point of access truly important to
  students?

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• Does Information Technology give a competitive
  advantage or just meet expectations?

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• If Information Technology is adopted and used how
  shall we deal with intellectual property rights
  issues?

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• Faculty evaluation salary increases and
  promotions
• shall the use of information technology by the
  faculty enter into the promotion equation?
• how do we handle situations where faculty simply
  do not wish to use information technology in
  their teaching