Eight papers are presented from the 1995 CAUSE conference track on strategic planning issues faced by managers of information technology at colleges and universities. The papers include: (1) "Can Small Colleges Afford To Be Technology Leaders? Can They Afford Not To Be? (Martin Ringle and David Smallen); (2) "Strategic Planning Across Multiple Organizations: Community College MIS Consortium and the Central Oregon University Center" (Martha Romero and others), which focuses on management information systems collaboration at the College of the Siskiyous, Arizona State University, and Central Oregon University Center; (3) "Multi-Faceted Planning in 'REAL' IT" (Wayne Ostendorf and Michelle Stotts), on strategic planning at Iowa State University; (4) "OLAP/EIS Tops Off the Data Warehouse" (Henry M. Stewart), which examines the use of On-Line Analytical Processing technology at the University of Rochester; (5) "You CAN Teach an Old Dog New Tricks: Extending Legacy Applications to the New Enterprise Architecture" (Nicholas C. Laudato and Dennis J. DeSantis), which discusses the integration of old and new information technology at the University of Pittsburgh; (6) "Strategic Planning for a Library, Computing and Media Support Organization" (Maureen Sullivan and Patrick Calhoun), which focuses on the University of South Carolina; (7) "Restructuring the Information Technology Organization To Improve User Services and Return on Investment: Do Compromises Work?" (Keith R. Nelson and Richard W. Davenport), which highlights the experiences of Central Michigan University; and (8) "The Financial Mythology of Information Technology: The New Economics" (John L. Oberlin). Some papers contain references. (MDM)