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The NSF May be Measuring Your Institution’s Computing Power
8/3/2005
By Terry Calhoun
- Well, doctorate granting institutions have more, higher-speed networks than
do non-doctorate institutions.
- Both kinds of institutions planed to increase the percentage of higher-speed
networks in the next fiscal year, even though perhaps not planning to increase
the number of connections on campus.
- More doctorate granting institutions are connected to Abilene (79 percent)
than of non-doctorate institutions (28 percent).
- Although wired connections are far more used for research than wireless,
everyone is moving to more and more wireless.
- An amazing 92 percent of reporting institutions claim to either have a centralized,
institution-wide IT plan or a college/departmental IT plan. But those plans
varied in terms of their coverage of networking versus computer workstations,
and so forth.
Like I said, this is a very initial report. A plethora of tables and analysis
is about to pour forth and I guess the point of my writing about this, this
week, is that if you care about this data and its analysis, you’ll want to be
keeping an eye on the websites I’ve linked to above.
SCUP member Leslie Christovich, who is the manager of this NSF project, has
said that folks who are really interested but who don’t want to wait for formal
publication of the data may contact her direct and she may then be able to make
it available on an individual basis: lchristo@nsf.gov.
About the author: Terry Calhoun is Director of Communications and Publications for the Society
for College and University Planning (SCUP). You can contact him through CT's IT Trends forum by clicking here. View more articles by Terry Calhoun.
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