Decisions about investments in information system infrastructure are among the most important -- and costly -- decisions campus and system administrators make. A wide variety of needs must be accommodated: those of students, faculty and administrators themselves. Different parts of the system will become obsolescent at very different rates. Even those with high levels of technical expertise have been blind-sided by such issues in the past. This volume will help mainstream administrators think through the decision making process. This is the 115th journal in the Jossey-Bass series New Directions in Higher Education.

Author Biography

GEORGE R. MAUGHAN is associate professor of technology education and coordinator of the communication and information systems sequence of study at West Virginia University, Morgantown, West Virginia.