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Introduction
edACCESS provides support and networking for administrative
computing staff at secondary schools and small colleges. Most of our members
come from schools with an FTE of under 1,000 students. Our goals are to:
- provide
professional development opportunities in administrative information
technology
- engage
our members in the discussion and interchange of ideas and resources
pertaining to administrative computing
- provide
forums for discussion and the development of policies regarding the
use of information technology in education
-
offer support to our members through conferences, publications and other
activities
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History
Our
organization traces its roots back to 1991, when three computing directors
at two small colleges in Vermont met to discuss the growing gap between
the administrative computing solutions used by their institutions and
the answers for larger schools. It’s not uncommon for larger schools
to spend hundreds of thousands of dollars on a single piece of administrative
software — a cost that is out of reach for most of our members. Out
of this meeting grew “ACCESS” — Administrative and Campus
Computing Environments at Small Schools. Initially, ACCESS was conceived
as a forum for small colleges, but secondary schools expressed such interest
that the organization was quickly expanded to include them. In 2000, the
organization changed its name to edACCESS (to avoid confusion with a certain
well-known database product).
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