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Abstract

SCAP started in an era when there was little support for giving students access to this then new technology which was having a potentially huge impact on state and local budgets. At first SCAP funds were often the only monies available for student computing. Even today, the SCAP program represents an important component of most state-operated campus’s student computing budgets. Now, as computing, networks, and access to information have become integrated and an accepted right of every student and educated citizen, SCAP looks forward to providing support to campuses in ways which respond to their changing needs.

In this presentation, we shall describe 

• The Origins of SCAP -- SCAP predates and was the inspiration for FACT. 

• SCAP successes (What have we done for you in the past?) -- SCAP piloted budgetary flexibility for SUNY and broke the logjam on money for computing.

• The Current status of SCAP (What are we doing for you now, and how do campuses apply?) -- SCAP keeps on pumping money into the student computing stream.

• Possible future directions for SCAP (Now what?) -- We still “... have promises to keep and miles to go before [we] sleep....”  (Robert Frost, "Stopping by the Woods on a Snowy Evening,"  http://eleaston.com/pronunciation/frost.html)

Paul Kramer was Chair of the SCAP Advisory from its inception through its first 16 years and is a founding member of the FACT Advisory Committee.  Harry Pence has been a member of the SCAP Advisory Committee for all but its first three years, and is a former chair and founding member of the FACT Advisory Committee.  We’ve had a lot of fun at all of this, but we would be delighted if you-all out there would get involved! 

You can learn more about FACT at http://fact.suny.edu/
You can learn more about SCAP, which is now a FACT program, at http://www.oswego.edu/scap/