ABSTRACT
The Claremont Colleges is a group of wholly independent institutions comprised of five undergraduate colleges and a coordinating institution known as Claremont University Center. What may be useful in the Claremont experience is the evidence of how a consortium of wholly independent institutions, each of a somewhat different character, can work out the problems for both academic and administrative computing. There was a solution, but, as with most academic problems, there was no final solution. If it is remembered that one rarely enters a situation where there is no computing, where there is the luxury of setting up one's own system exactly as he wants it, and that one will have to tackle an existing situation and start from what is there, planning should be planning for change. While one is planning for change, the volatility of educational computing— both academic and administrative— must be kept in mind.
