CAUSE/EFFECT

Volume 20 Number 2 Summer 1997

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Campus Profile

Colorado Community College and Occupational Education System

Cover photo: The futuristic Education Technology Training Center of the CCCOES is one of the most comprehensive multimedia production sites in the U.S. The Center is the latest effort of the largest postsecondary education system in Colorado, which reaches over 200,000 students across the state each year. Pictures above is the videoconferencing room for the central System offices in Denver, part of a network used to connect presidents and executives of member colleges, and to coordinate management of dispersed information technology resources.

Current Issues

Internet2: Building and Deploying Advanced, Networked Applications
by Ted Hanss, Internet2 Project

Features

New Approaches for Compensating the Information Technology Knowledge Worker
by Celeste M. Giunta, the California State University System

Partnership in Supporting Computer Technology at Emory University
by Marisa Johnson, Julia Leon, and Susan Mistretta, Emory University

Developing and Information Technology Support Model for Higher Education
by Richard M. Kesner, Babson College

Information Architecture: The Data Warehouse Foundation
by Charles R. Thomas, National Center for Higher Education Management Systems

Taming the Internet for Electronic Data Interchange via a Secure Server
by David H. Stones, University of Texas at Austin

Viewpoints

A Framework for Universal Internet Access
by William H. Graves, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Are Software Publishers in Touch with Higher Ed Needs?
by Glen McCandless, Focus Marketing, Inc.

Seven Points to Overcome to Make the Virtual University Viable
by G.D. Bothun, University of Oregon

Intellectual Standards in the Information Resources Industry
by Mark Sheehan, Montana State University

Good Ideas

Learning about Distance Learning
by Andrew C. Lawlor and Jeanne Rodier Weber, Edinboro University of Pennsylvania

Departments

From the Editor

CNI Report
Changing Economics of Scholarly Information
by Richard P. West

Recommended Reading

Readers Respond
Student Services on the Web