Presents a tested, workable technique that simultaneously reduces costs, provides better service to administrative users, improves teaching and learning, reduces power struggles, and increases faculty and staff morale. The basic idea is that individuals teaching computer-related courses can be regular, full-time members of the computing center…

Educators must recognize the inadequacies of their planning, programing, evaluation, and budgeting systems. When these are redeveloped, PPBS will produce the cost/effectiveness data they are really capable of. (WM)

Describes a system for payroll reporting from geographically disparate locations in which data is entered, edited, and verified locally on minicomputers and then uploaded to a central computer for the standard payroll process. Communications and hardware, time-reporting software, data input techniques, system implementation, and its advantages are…