Excellence in Networking 1996 Award Winners

University of Oregon

The result of a clearly defined evolution over twenty years, the University of Oregon's campuswide network today provides some 20,000 students, faculty, and staff with convenient access to state-of-the-art networking facilities, services, and resources. The blueprint for the university's network emerged from a commendable educational technology vision statement produced by a task force on infrastructure and technology and an educational technology coordinating committee. Campus users benefit from outstanding network-based academic applications, and superb training materials and projects, such as GET READY, providing information technology basics for incoming students. The UO network has also made possible a new level of inter-institutional collaboration, through exemplary outreach projects such as the Network for Engineering and Research in Oregon (NERO) and the Lane Education Network (LEN).

Cal Lutheran University

The development of strong strategic planning documents, reflecting a risk management approach at both the institutional and the technology levels, allowed CLU to plan and implement a network in support of heterogeneous mix of systems and applications (both voice and data) in the creation of CLUnet. One of the major objectives of the plan, integrating technology into the teaching and learning process, achieved remarkable success judging from the faculty who acknowledging that they have changed and significantly improved their curriculum through the infusion of technology on the network. In addition, the CLUnet project included a reorganization of involved departments—merging staff from the library, academic computing, data processing, media services, and telecommunications into a new Office of Information Systems and Services for greater efficiency and improved customer service.