Re: Welcome to Sustainability & Insitutionalization

David Lassner (david@hula.its.hawaii.edu)
Sat, 29 Mar 1997 17:58:33 -1000


On Mon, 24 Mar 1997, Michael Williamson wrote:
> In the sustainability area.  Are many looking to traditional "commercial"
> aspects to generate income to sustain the respective programs, i.e. menu
> bars on pages, membership fees, user fees, sponsors for various aspects of
> the programs?

We've got a few ideas on this in Hawaii:
* RFP to a private ISP for dialup services -- we think we can bring the
price down with our buying power and spread it around to the rural areas
of the state with the lure of the lucrative urban market.
* we're just starting to look at advertising in higher ed -- right now on
our web/registration page.
* helping teachers learn the ropes to offer training/education to other
teachers through established administrative structures (college of
continuing ed) without reliance on special grants or training
administrators.