Business schools seen improving DP curricula

Abstract

A significant change in philosophy concerning compute r use in U .S . Schools of Business has transpired over the pas t five years . The writer's original study, Computers and th e Schools of Business (1967), described the approach of 1 1 progressive schools which had implemented four phases o f computer curriculum . A survey last year revealed that the four phase curriculu m has been implemented in the majority of the 139 member s of the American Association of Collegiate Schools of Business . A recent study by Professor Roger Gupta (Kent Stat e University) shows that the majority of the other U .S . schools now require an introductory course in data processing — phase one of the four phase cur r iculum . Yet the significant change is not the spread of compute r curriculum from a few progressive schools to the majorit y of the 600 U .S . Schools of Business in the brief, five yea r span of time . The significant change is the way in which the compute r is being used . Five years ago it was used primarily as a problem solver — on rather trivial problems . It was als o used for faculty research . During the next few years it con -