Profs as Computer Students

Faculty members from ten New England colleges will come to Dartmouth this summer for an intensive orientation course in the use of the time-sharing computer as a teaching, research, and working tool in the social sciences. The eight-week course has been made possible by a $25,000 grant to the College, awarded by the National Science Foundation to advance experimentation in the regional use of the computer. The program will be administered by Assistant Professor of Sociology Edmund D. Meyers Jr., who has been working to develop a system of computer programs keyed specifically to meet the special needs of the social sciences.

Participating institutions, all currently linked by telephone lines to Dartmouth's computer, are Bates, Mt. Holyoke, Middlebury, University of Vermont, Bowdoin, New England College, Colby Junior, Berkshire Community, Vermont Technical College, and Norwich University.