Feasibility Study for a Statewide Higher Education Information Technology
Network
State of Connecticut, September 18, 1996
Benefits of a Statewide
Network
A statewide network, by providing the
following benefits, will allow the State of Connecticut to trade
in its reactive stance on education for a more proactive one:
- Academic
- Support for distance learning
applications
- Facilitated collaboration on
research projects
- Increased exposure to a variety of
resources
- Internet, Library
catalogs, multimedia applications, Lexis
Nexis
- Facilitated student recruiting,
admissions and registration
- Simplified preparation and
distribution of course catalogs and schedules
- Better method of communicating the
transferability of credits between educational
institutions
- Administrative
- Improved maintenance of student
records (e.g., billing, financial aid,
transcripts, etc.)
- Facilitated sharing of backoffice
information and applications (e.g., payroll,
purchasing, etc.) -- This will especially benefit
those sites that do not have the resources to
purchase and maintain their own systems (e.g.,
Charter Oak)
- A mechanism by which reports can
be viewed on-line by DHE and other state
agencies. This would prevent the individual
institutions from having to print out and mail
these reports
- Other
- Greater interconnectivity with
private industry
- More efficient use of teaching
resources (e.g., faculty and classrooms)
- Better marketing of higher
education resources available in the State of
Connecticut
- Opportunity to capitalize on
economies of scale
- A network infrastructure will
encourage collaboration between individual
institutions
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