About the Authors

RICHARD N. KATZ is vice president of CAUSE. When this book was written, Katz was director of business planning and practices for the University of California (UC) system. In this role, he was responsible for planning, directing, and coordinating the strategic management initiatives of the nine-campus UC system and for communicating these initiatives to the University's Board of Regents, campus leadership, and other constituents. Since 1981, Katz has served UC in a number of line and staff capacities in diverse areas of the administration. He has published more than 20 articles, monographs, and book chapters, and is a frequent presenter for WACUBO, the Society for College and University Planning, Educom, CAUSE, and other associations.

LINDA MARTINSON is currently head of the Galloway School in Atlanta, Georgia. From 1989 to1995, she was at Georgia Institute of Technology (Georgia Tech), where she served as vice president of planning, budget, and finance and as chief business officer, and had direct line management authority for all financial and many administrative business areas. Martinson also has several presentations and publications to her credit in the areas of higher education planning and finance, electric power supply planning, and software engineering. She holds an M.S. and a Ph.D. from Stanford University.

MARGARET F. PLYMPTON is director of administrative services and planning at Yale University, working for the vice president for finance and administration. In this capacity, she is responsible for a variety of special projects, often with a focus on technology innovation and process reengineering. Her previous position was vice president for information technology and associate treasurer for Wellesley College. Plympton has served on the CAUSE Professional Development Committee for the last three years and has been a member of visiting committees at other institutions, consulting on information technology issues.

STEVEN W. RELYEA is vice chancellor-business affairs at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD), where he also serves as the chief business officer. He oversees campus administrative operations, including financial services, human resources, facilities management, administrative computing, telecommunications, housing, dining services, purchasing, police, transportation, bookstores, and other central functions for a campus with an annual operating budget exceeding $1 billion. Relyea previously held appointments at UC Irvine, and currently chairs the University of California Financial and Accounting Systems Task Force.

EDWIN D. RENNIE is director of information systems and services at Sinclair Community College in Dayton, Ohio. In this capacity, he has provided leadership in the transition of the computer services department from a central mainframe focus to a comprehensive network approach. Rennie has conducted conference presentations on Sinclair's approach to information technology and on the organizational impact of the implementation of vendor systems. He participated as a team member on an electronic forum for the development of a monograph on the learning organization, published by CAUSE and the League for Innovation in the Community College.

JULIA A. RUDY is director of publications and editor at CAUSE, the association for managing and using information resources in higher education. Working in this position for more than 15 years, she is responsible for publishing and editing the quarterly journal, CAUSE/EFFECT, and has edited numerous professional papers on topics ranging from reengineering higher education to planning for information technology to organizational and technological strategies for the information age. Rudy shares responsibility for the development of CAUSE's World Wide Web content with the association's chief technology officer.

JOHN F. "BARRY" WALSH is director of the Decision Support and Systems Division of the Financial Management Support (FMS) organization at Indiana University (IU). This unit provides central financial support for the eight-campus IU system. Walsh has responsibility for financial information analysis, accounting operations and systems management, and decision support. He spent 15 years in U.S. and international industry working in engineering, marketing, finance, manufacturing, purchasing, and materials management. For the first six of his 12 years at IU, Walsh was responsible for the systems development and information access units in the computing center.