There have been several changes in leadership at the UND Computer Center since spring semester. With Dale Vetter's retirement July 1, Dorette Kerian was named interim director of the UND Computer Center and Marv Hanson has primary responsibility for the North Dakota Higher Education Computer Network (NDHECN) north site located at UND in the interim. Both Dorette and Marv retain their associate director responsibilities at the Computer Center.

Greg Chalmers became associate director for administrative information services (AIS) following Ben Morgan's retirement. AIS programmers have responsibility for the student and financial records systems available to all members of the North Dakota University System.

Some key projects the Computer Center is working on this academic year include: making required changes to prepare for year 2000; adding new mainframe hardware and updating software to assure reliability of student and financial information systems; investigating methods of improving student and financial information systems; increasing network bandwidth to the Internet (especially in support of researchers); improving network performance intracampus; revising the help center for faster response to customer questions and problems; improving response to desktop application and client requests for installation, training and other service; and beginning the first stage of providing students, faculty and staff improved e-mail on UND systems.