Abstract
CAUSE was one of fourteen members of the Council of Higher Education Management Associations (CHEMA) who initiated a study last year by Coopers & Lybrand to develop an objective guide to making decisions about self-operating or contracting out various campus services, including computing. Little unbiased information to guide such decisions is available, and too often administrators make these decisions without weighing all of the critical factors. This article provides an executive summary of the publication that resulted from the study commissioned by CHEMA.