Date: October 20, 2004
Contact: Irene Cromer
703-791-8720

INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY DEPARTMENT AWARDED OVER $1 MILLION

The Prince William County Public Schools Department of Information Technology has been awarded a five-year cumulative total grant of $1,045,000 from CampusEAI, a non-profit consortium, in Campus EAI Oracle Portal software and services. The first-year grant award total is $291,000. The initial and ongoing support costs on a yearly basis are $39,500. Steve George, Director of the Department of Information Technology, and Susan Dooley, Supervisor of Computer Applications, submitted the grant application.

The grant is designed to cover the costs of software, hardware, and services associated with the implementation of CampusEAI's Oracle Portal System, an intranet portal that integrates online learning, administrative computing, and student services systems.

The CampusEAI Consortium facilitates collaborative discussion among primary, secondary, and post secondary education institutions for sharing, developing, and distributing community-source software. Other institutional members of the Consortium include Portland Public Schools, Washington State University, Kansas State University, University of Oklahoma, University of Montana, Case Western Reserve University, University of Nevada Las Vegas, Rochester Institute of Technology, and Virginia Commonwealth University.

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