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CWIS

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CWIS
(Campus Wide Information System) An information retrieval system used in colleges and universities before the Web became popular. Students and faculty would Telnet to a CWIS location to find course catalogs and schedules, job openings and the like. Items were selected from a text-based menu.
CWIS - Campus-Wide Information System


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Rudolph Ryser is the executive director of the CWIS and an activist scholar in the field of Indian affairs.
According to Hart (1994), although some methodology conception initiatives already existed to apply measurement tools, the CWIS enabled some advances, among which the following are highlighted: a) recognition of different sustainability definitions; b) need for an appropriate methodology for effective sustainability indicator use and c) observation of governmental and private interests on the theme.
When using CWIS, management, alert handling and reporting are relatively restricted, with no central policy deployment.
 
 
 
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