Planning for academic departmental systems

I want to describe the computing environment at our campus and how departmental computing fits in, the goals that we envisioned for the departmental planning process, and the process that we have developed over the last two years. I'll also describe the model that we are continuing to develop to assist in the estimation of cost and in the negotiation of funding for departmental systems and show you three brief examples of plans which our academic departments have developed. Finally, I want to share my observations about the strengths and weaknesses of this process.