Ten Questions Campus Executives Should Be Asking to Assess Year 2000 Readiness

Abstract

What questions should college and university executives be asking to be confident that your institutions are making progress on the year 2000 computer problem? How do you know that this progress is satisfactory? Are the priorities the correct ones? Is your institution paying sufficient attention to ancillary questions, such as vendor relations and legal implications? Sources for the questions in this article are those commonly found at most year 2000 Internet sites. The information has been collected and distilled with a focus on higher education and presidential needs. As such, the list contains no new insights into the problem, just a new presentation of existing information along with some explanatory comments about why each question is important.