UNIVERSITY RESPONSES TO EDP.
Abstract The article presents information on acquisition of electronic data processing (EDP) by universities. Universities contemplating the acquisition of commercial electronic data processing equipment face a situation which makes their approach at once both like and unlike that of industrial firms. The university is at one time both a cost-justifying business establishment (in its business office operations) and a purposefully loss-incurring experiment station (in its research and teaching operations). The duality of viewpoint places university administrators in a position of having to be sympathetic toward academic demands for tremendously high-priced equipment and at the same time to be hard-boiled about cost justification, for the school's own commercial uses. The uncertainties of prospective cost savings and the relatively costly long-term manpower requirements in making ready, are good reasons for university comptrollers to take a long, slow look at EDP. The writer suggests that to meet the need for qualified faculty, more teachers must extend their educational backgrounds to include the whole "management science" area and specifically the EDP specialty.
- DOI
- 10.2308/tar-7060857
- Volume
- 33 (4)
- Pages
- 645-649
- Language
- en
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