May 18, 1993




Sam Ellis
Information Services
Portland Community College
PO Box 19000
Portland, OR  97280


Dear Sam,

I have included an eclectic list of our campus computer wishes.  If any of these
don't qualify or you need more info, let me know.  Implicit in some of these is the
need of a bigger VAX but I didn't include that.

These ideas have been discussed in several "I have a dream..." meetings but
haven't had much more concrete planning than that.  If this gets funded, I'm not
sure we can cope with all these dreams at once, but it can't hurt to ask.

Thanks for coordinating this.  I'll have a draft of the "who are you and what do
you have at your campus" survey for OCCCS (or OCEAN) next week.

Sincerely,


Ann L. Adams
Director
College Computer ServicesLinn-Benton Community College Proposal

1. Telephone Registration - Our classes are often taught at outlying
   locations, but currently registrations can only occur in person at 4
   distinct locations.  Telephone registration equipment and software
   would allow us to better serve our large, rural two-county area since
   students would be able to register from their locations.$80,000

2.   Campus Information Utility - We have the beginning of a campus-wide
     access to information since our administrative computer and our
     LAN's are interconnected.  From the desktop, an employee can access
     word-processing, spreadsheets, e-mail and desktop utilities as well as
     information on budgets, classes and students.  We would like to
     leverage this information utility to include:

     a.    Attachment of the campus library system                $10,300
     b.    Equipment to allow the campus to dial-out to access
           the "outside world" such as Internet and for staff
           and students to dial-in to reach our information.      $36,000
     c.    Equipment to allow our off-campus centers to be
           networked within their centers and to link to the 
           campus information utility.                            $51,000

3.   Student Bulletin Board Courses - Because of the large geographic area
     we serve, we would like to be able to provide instructors the
     opportunity to teach some classes using the "Bulletin Board" concept. 
     This could also function as another way to communicate to our
     service district on items such as budgets and community activities.$6,000

4.   Digital Communications Switch - This switch would allow the college to
     integrate voice and data communications into a seamless environment
     across the college, facilitating information exchange from the community
     into the college and from the college out to the service district.$265,000

     Total request:                                              $448,300