Every facet of society, and every scholarly discipline, has been affected by the pervasive infusion of computers. For SUNY to continue educational leadership in service to the citizens and institutions, both public and private, of the State of New York, we must give our faculty the advantage of maximum access to computing. We recommend a SUNY-wide program to provide improved Faculty Access to Computing Technology (FACT).

An ad-hoc committee was formed to detail COA's concerns to the Provost. After working with the ad-hoc committee for a time, the Provost responded to the need by creating a FACT Advisory Council in the spring of 1989. He charged this council with the responsibility of developing programs that would achieve these goals.

FACT currently operates with the support of Provost Peter Salins, and SUNY Advanced Learning and Information Services (ALIS) under Dr. David Porush, Executive Director for SUNY Learning Environments. Despite continuing tight budgets, the current SUNY leadership, the previous Director, Dr. James Hall, as well as FACT's original supporter Dr. Joseph Burke, all found funds to support proposals that the FACT Advisory Council made. The FACT Council members are grateful to all these people for their support in difficult times, and have tried to maximize the impact of the available funds.

The current budget allows FACT to respond to some of the goals for interaction and faculty development and training; however, there is still more work to be done to ensure appropriate computing access, equipment, and development and training for all of SUNY's faculty and instructional support professionals.