UNIVERSITY of the VIRGIN ISLANDS



RESOLUTION



PURCHASE OF MICROCOMPUTERS FOR INSTRUCTION



WHEREAS, the University of the Virgin Islands has established as

one of its goals that it will "utilize the most comprehensive,

state-of-the-art academic~> resource base among institutions of

similar size in the region."



WHEREAS, microcomputers have become essential instructional and

productivity devices in higher education and in all areas of

commerce, industry and public service in which the graduates of the

University will be employed; and



WHEREAS, microcomputers are needed to provide access for all

students to the University’s emerging capability to search,

retrieve and use information at libraries, archives and other

institutions abroad; and



WHEREAS, the University of the Virgin Islands has set the goal of

educating all of its students in the use of microcomputers in all

of the discipiines; and



WHEREAS, the number of microcomputers currently available on the

St. Thomas and St. Croix campuses are inadequate to meet the needs

of the instructional programs;



NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED that the President and Vice

President for Financial Affairs be authorized to appropriate the

sum of $120,000 from the Educational Resources Reserve Fund for the

purchase of microcomputer equipment for the St. Thomas and St.

Croix campuses according to priorities identified by the Vice

President for Academic Affairs.



CERTIFICATION



The undersigned does hereby certify that the foregoing is a true

and exact copy of a resolution of the Board of Trustees of the

University of the Virgin Islands adopted at its meeting on June 28,

1992, as recorded in the minutes of said meeting.



— = LIFR. Onrbbo Kear



Secretary of the Board