Presented are the proceedings of a national conference of the Professional Association for Computing and Information Technology, formerly known as the College and University Systems Exchange (CAUSE). Papers are organized according to the conference's eight concurrent tracks in the areas of policy and planning, managing technologies integration, financial impact and considerations, organizational and personnel issues, impact of departmental computing, outstanding applications, hardware/software/networking strategies, and academic computing strategy. Current issues sessions, constituent group meetings, and a "Writing for CAUSE/EFFECT" seminar are summarized, along with corporate participation. The 56 track papers are preceded by two general session presentations: the keynote address, "Managing Tomorrow's University" (J. Wyatt) and "Transforming Information into Knowledge--The Challenge for the 21st Century" (J. Sculley). Appended are descriptions of some of the contributions of 45 participating corporations as well as a section showing pictorial highlights of the conference. (SM)