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• Watching the Money, 08/20/2010.
• Seeking Federal Support, 11/09/2009.
• The Next Big Thing: Crisis and Transformation in American Higher Education, 08/09/2009.
• Leveraging Crisis for Competitive Advantage, 05/08/2009.
• The Mote in Thy Brother's Eye, 03/25/2009.
• Budget Crises, Academic Change: A Fable, 01/08/2009.
• Performing to Make Money: Making Money to Perform, 10/19/2008.
• The Amateur Challenge of College Sports, 08/10/2008.
• Naming Names: Ten Rules, 07/14/2008.
• Keeping Donors and Their Heirs Happy, 07/02/2008.
• Managing the Elite, 05/27/2008.
• Financial Aid: Buying Student Talent, 04/29/2008.
• Managing for Improvement: Part II, 04/23/2008.
• Managing for Improvement: Part I, 04/21/2008.
• Pricing the Product, 02/05/2008.
• Perspectives on the Progression of Learning in Higher Education: An Interview with John Lombardi. IMS Global Learning Consortium Series on Learning Impact, January 25, 2008.
• Rankings, Competition, and the Evolving American University by Lombardi and Elizabeth D. Capaldi, "Introduction" to The Top American Research Universities, 2007.
• The Top American Research Universities--2007 The Center for Measuring University Performance, 2007 by Lombardi, Elizabeth D. Capaldi, Craig W. Abbey.
• How Long Can I Last? in Patrick H. Sanaghan, Larry Goldstein, and Kathleen D. Gaval, Presidential Transitions: It's Not Just the Position, It's the Transition (appeared in 2007, copyright 2008).
• Deconstructing Faculty Work, 11/27/2007.
• Watch Lists, 11/15/2007.
• Testing What?, 11/02/2007.
• The Academic Success Entitlement, 09/26/2007.
• Ranking the Rankings, 08/17/2007.
• Differential Pricing, 07/29/2007.
• University Presidential Memoirs, 07/23/2007.
• What is Higher Education?, 06/18/2007.
• The Constant Crisis of the Liberal Arts, 05/18/2007.
• ACE and the Presidents, 05/11/2007.
• Celebrating Creativity, 05/08/2007.
• Reality Check: the Blog, 05/01/2007.
• On Large Scale Student Databases, 04/20/07.
• Research Competition and the MLA, 01/11/07.
• The Top American Research Universities--2006.
• Improving Graduation Rates: A Simple Method That Works, Change, 38:4 (2006), 44-58 by Elizabeth D. Capaldi, Lombardi, and Victor Yellen.
• The Failure of Critical Thinking, 12/12/2006.
• Comparing Wal-Mart and Tiffany, 11/9/2006.
• Regulating the New Consumerism, 9/28/2006.
• Virtues and Vices of 'Value Added', 8/10/2006.
• The Value of Commission Reports, 7/18/2006.
• Public and Private: What's the Difference? 3/6/2006.
• Can We Learn the Hard Languages? 1/1/2006.
• The Top American Research Universities, 2005.
• Deconstructing University Rankings: Medicine and Engineering, and Single Campus Research Competitiveness, 2005.
• Paying for the Research Juggernaut, 12/15/2005.
• Too Much Money? Sports and the Budget, 10/11/2005.
• We're All Getting Better, 10/17/2005.
• Trustees and Tenure, 10/7/2005.
• Should Our Students Study Chinese?, 9/16/2005.
• Students Read Less. Should We Care? 8/23/2005.
• The Faculty Salary Game, 8/4/2005.
• Rearranging the Deck Chairs, 7/15/2005.
• Grade Inflation and Abdication, 6/3/2005.
• Equalizing Merit and Economic Opportunity, 5/19/2005.
• Accountability, Improvement and Money, 5/3/2005.
• Fuzzy Numbers [student/faculty ratio], 4/15/2005.
• Luxury, Subsidy and Opportunity: Purchasing a Quality Education, 3/28/2005.
• Who Gets In, What It Costs, 2/28/2005.
• Missing the Mark: Graduation Rates and University Performance, 2/14/2005.
• The Top American Research Universities, 2004.
• Comparing Apples and Oranges: Five Years of Measuring University Performance at TheCenter, 2004.
• The Top American Research Universities, 2003.
• Competing for Quality: The Public Flagship Research University. Reilly Center Public Policy Fellow, February 26-28, 2003. The Reilly Center for Media & Public Affairs. Louisiana State University.
• The Top American Research Universities, 2002.
• University Governance, Organization, and Competitiveness, 2002.
• The Top American Research Universities, 2001.
• Quality Engines: The Competitive Context for Research Universities, 2001.
• Statewide Governance: The Myth of the Seamless System, 2001.
• Quality Engines: The Strategic Principles for Competitive Universities in the Twenty-First Century, 2001 [English version of: Generadores de Calidad: Los Principios Estratégicos de las Universidades Competitivas en el Siglo XXI Presented at the Simposio Evaluación y Reforma de la Educación Superior en Venezuela, 15 y 16 de Marzo de 2.001. Sala "Francisco de Miranda" Biblioteca Central, Universidad Central de Venezuela], 2001.
• How Classifications Can Help Colleges, 2000.
• The Top American Research Universities, 2000.
• The Myth of Number One: Indicators of Research University Performance, 2000.
• Academic Libraries in a Digital Age, 2000.
• University Improvement: The Permanent Challenge, 2000.
• Colleges Shouldn't Be Employment Agencies, 1999.
• Who Needs the Past?, 1998.
• Free Markets and Competition: Taking Public Universities Into the 21st Century, 1997.
• Students, Universities, and Graduation Rates: Some Times Simple Things Don't Work, 1997.
• Learning to Count in Higher Education, 1997.
• The Budget Matters: Covered Degrees and the Return on Research Investment, 1996.
• Waging War: The Arts and Sciences, the University, and the People, 1992.

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• The University of Massachusetts Amherst Budget Update FY05, (2/4/2005).
• The UMass Amherst Financial Master Plan: FY02-FY09, (1/28/2004).
• From the Chancellor: Research Defines the Flagship University, (UMass Magazine, Summer 2003).
• Budget Document Archive, 2003.
• Approaching the Campus Budget: Research [posted October 23, 2003].
• Approaching the Campus Budget [posted September 18, 2003].
• Report to the President [August 4, 2003].
• Campus Response to FY04 Budget, [posted May 6, 2003].
• The Academic Imperative [El imperativo académico] February 7, 2003, University of Massachusetts Amherst.
• The Culture of Achievement at UMassAmherst, 2002.

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• Congressional Tribute to Dr. John V. Lombardi, University of Florida President, 1999.
• A Decade of Performance, [by Lombardi and Elizabeth D. Capaldi], 1999.
• Capturing Opportunities, 1999.
• The Undergraduate Experience, 1999.
• UF's Future Course: Quality and Productivity, 1999.
• UF Launches Graduate Fellowship Initiative, 1998.
• Growth and Quality: Tracking Student Numbers at the University of Florida, 1998.
• Making Things Work, 1998.
• Computing Is Essential To Everything We Do -- Including Education, 1998.
• The Accountability Handbook from the University of Florida, (1996)
  
• Measuring University Performance: The Series, Lombardi and Elizabeth D. Capaldi
     (1995)
  State Support, 1996.
  Teaching, 1996
  Classrooms, 1996.
  Research, 1996.
    (1996)
  Excess Hours, 1996.
  Transfer Students, 1996.
  Research Benefits, 1996.
  Student Quality, 1996.
  Financial Aid, 1996.
  Costs, 1996.
    (1997)
  The Bank, 1997.
  The Ph.D., 1996.
• Quality, Productivity, and Budget: It's Performance That Counts, 1996.
• A Proposal for Degree Funding: Draft, 1/5/1996.
• Life, Liberty, and Lost Faith, 1995.
• Teaching, 1995.
• Dealing with Hate on Our Campus, 1994.
• Fact and Imagination, 1993
• Change is at Heart of University's Success, 1992.
• What's Going On?, 1992.
• Competition and Choices, 1990.
• The Florida Challenge for Higher Education, 1990.

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• The ITM/MUCIA Program in Malaysia: Cooperation in Higher Education, 1987 (9MB).
• So, What's Your Major? 1987.
• Excellence at Risk, College of Arts and Sciences, 1987.
• International Education--Indiana University, 1984.
• Computer Literacy at Indiana University Bloomingon, 1984.

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• Computing Is Essential To Everything We Do -- Including Education, 1998.
• The Net, the Universities, and the Market, 1998.
• Not even in Cyberspace Can We Get a Free Lunch, 1995.
• Killer Applications, the Net, and the Wild, Wild West, 1995.
• Teaching The Computer: A Decade of Dazzle in Florida Technology in Education Quarterly, 1991 and in /Update (Northeast Regional Data Center, University Florida, 5-6, 1991)
• Computer Literacy at Indiana University Bloomingon, 1984.
• Computer Literacy: The Basic Language and Concepts (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1983) [20mb PDF]
• Data Domain Newsletters, 1981-1982
  The Data Domain Newsletter, August 1981.
  The Data Domain Newsletter, September 1981.
  The Data Domain Newsletter, October 1981.
  The Data Domain Newsletter, November 1981.
  The Data Domain Newsletter, January/February 1982.
  The Data Domain Newsletter, March/April 1982.
  The Data Domain Newsletter, July/August 1982.
  The Data Domain Newsletter, September/October 1982.
   
  
• Small Computer Support Group Newsletter, [Indiana University], 1980-1982
  Small Computer Support Group Newsletter, No. 1, November 1980.
  Small Computer Support Group Newsletter, No. 2, February 1981.
  Small Computer Support Group Newsletter, No. 3, April 1981.
  Small Computer Support Group Newsletter, No. 4, July 1981.
  Small Computer Support Group Newsletter, No. 5, December 1981.
  Small Computer Support Group Newsletter, No. 6, May 1982 (shows 1981).
  

InfoWorld Reviews: 1983-1996
[Draft under construction, listed in chronological order]
[ * =Not yet found and scanned ]

• 1983-xx-xx, * Blue Word Processor (Applesoft, Apple II)
• 1983-xx-xx, * Magic Wand (Applesoft, Apple II)
• 1983-xx-xx, * Magic Spells (Applesoft, Apple II)
• 1983-xx-xx, * Spell-It (Applesoft, Apple II)
• 1983-xx-xx, * Word Juggler IIe and Lexicheck IIe (Applesoft, Apple IIe)
• 1983-03-07, Busywork: programmers' programs and routines (Applesoft, Apple II)
• 1983-05-16, Power Tools II, utilities to enhance Applesoft (Apple II/II+)
• 1983-06-xx, QuadLink (Apple II+ compatible plug-in board for IBM PC)
• 1983-09-12, Sentence Combining courseware from Milliken (with Judy Lucas) (Apple II/II+/IIe w/ Applesoft)
• 1983-09-26, VolksWriter word processing for the IBM PC (IBM PC DOS 1.1)
• 1983-xx-xx, Moptown's moppets teach kids logical reasoning (Apple II/II+)
• 1983-xx-xx, Moptown: Educational game from Advanced Learning Technology [Report Card Reprint]
• 1983-xx-xx, VISI\Bridge/Sort, utility for sorting VisiCalc (IBM PC)
• 1984-xx-xx, * Quadlink: A Followup Review (IBM PC, DOS 2.0)
• 1984-03-12, VisiOn: Applications Manager (IBM PC, DOS 2.0)
• 1984-03-26, Magic Window II (Word processors for Apple II/II+)
• 1984-04-16, VolksWriter Deluxe (IBM PC, DOS 1.1, 2.0)
• 1984-05-21, Metafile: A database system and word-processing module in one program (IBM PC, XT DOS 1.1,2.0)
• 1984-05-28, PFS:Access, An MS-DOS Communicatiions Package (IBM PC, PCjr)
• 1984-07-30, Desq, A complex integrating package from Quarterdeck Office Systems (IBM PC, XT, DOS 2.0)
• 1984-07-xx, VisiOn Applications Manager for high-end use (IBM PC DOS 2.0)
• 1984-07-xx, VolksWriter Deluxe: Similar to original, but improved (IBM PC DOS 1.1, 2.0)
• 1984-11-12, Kaypro 2X: A return to the philosophy of utilitarian computing (Z80A, CP/M, portable computer)
• 1984-11-19, Kaypro Letter-Quality Printer: No work-horse, this one is built for economy (Kaypro/Juki 6100, Centronics Parallel)
• 1985-05-13, Paperback Disappoints: Executive Writer could be good with some work; Paperback Writer is not worth buying at any price (IBM PC, XT, PCjr, AT, DOS 2.0)
• 1985-06-06, Kaypro Comes Close with the 286i: This clone is as near to the PC AT as can be, but terrible manuals, support should make you wary (80286 PC Clone)
• 1985-07-08, Not the Right Combination: Wang's Office Assistant tries to join dedicated word processing, other applications, with average results (dedicated personal computer, 80186, Wang proprietary operating system)
• 1985-07-15, Compaq Strikes Again With Classy Clone: DeskPro 286 is IBM PC AT compatible and even faster than Big Blue's baby (Personal computer, 80286, DOS 3.0)
• 1985-09-09, Epson Offers the QX 16: A Sophisticated Microcomputer (Personal computer with Z80A and 8088, CP/M-80, MS-DOS 2.11, TPM-III operating systems)
• 1985-09-23
  Volkswriter's Revision Sports Better Manual, Improved Speed [Short Review](Volkswriter Deluxe 2.2, IBM PC)
• 1985-11-11, TI Offers Expensive, Excellent AT Clone (TI and IBM AT compatibility)
• 1985-12-23, VolksWriter 3 'in the running' with the best on the market (Version 1.0, IBM PC, AT, XT, 3270 PC, MS DOS 2.0, 3.0)
• 1986-xx-xx, * Library for Word Perfect(IBM PC, DOS 2.0)
• 1986-02-10, Epson's Equity I: inexpensive clone (IBM PC compatible personal computer, MS-DOS 2.11)
• 1986-02-24, Word Processing and the Office, Selecting the Right Package: Top Packages Differ on Important Features (Multimate Advantage 3.60, Officewriter 4.0, Displaywrite 3-1.0, Word Perfect 4.1, Wordstar 2000 Plus 2.0, Samna Word III-3.0, Volkswriter 3, Microsoft Word 2.0, Wordstar 3.31)
• 1986-04-07 WordStar 2000 Updates Speed, but for Hard Disk Customers Only (Wordstar 2000 Release 2)
• 1986-04-21, Compaq Line Gains Addition (Compaq Portable II, IBM PC Clone, 80286, 10MB HD)
• 1986-04-21, Wang-Style PC Program for Office Improved (Office Writer 4.0, IBM PC, XT, AT MS-DOS 2.0)
• 1986-05-05
  Displaywrite Can't Match the Others in Its Class (Displaywrite 3, DOS 2.0,3.0)
• 1986-06-02, Faster, Feature-Rich Microsoft Word 3.0 (IBM PC and compatibles)
• 1986-06-09, Equity III Competes as A Low-Price Clone (IBM PC Clone, 80286, MS-DOS 3.1)
• 1986-07-26, The Able-1 Integrated Program Has Problems (Able-1 version 3.0, Database, spreadsheet, communications, word processing, MS-DOS 3.0)
• 1986-08-04, Samna Competive in 'Check List Wars' (Samna Word III 3.0, MS-DOS 2.0)
• 1986-08-25, Micropro's Easy Extra: Ease of Use Best Feature (Version 1.5, word processing and mail merge, IBM PC)
• 1986-09-08, Revved Up Equity II Offers Bargain Speed (IBM XT Compatible with NEC V-30 Processor)
• 1986-09-29, Easy Word Processing, What Does It Mean? (Easy Extra, PFS Professional Write, Websters New World Writer, Volkswriter 3 and Volkswriter Deluxe Plus, PCWrite 2.6/7)
• 1986-10-27, PFS Professional Write: Second-Generation Program Is Quick, Simple.Update Adds Address Book Manager, Synonym Finder (Version 1.0)
• 1986-12-08
  Word for Word: Step-Saving Utility Converts among Six Word Processors
• 1986-12-15, New World Writer: Webster's Has Solid Editing, Formatting Capabilities
• 1987-01-12, VolksWriter Deluxe Plus: New Version Of Lifetree Program Has Spelling Check
• 1987-01-26, OfficeWriter, Version 5.0: With Update, Word Processor Matches Its High-End Rivals
• 1987-02-02, WordPerfect, Version 4.2: Heavy-Hitting Market Leader Improves a Bit With Update
• 1987-03-09, DisplayWrite 4: IBM Word Processing Program Polished Up But Still Not Good
• 1987-07-13, Multimate Advantage II: Word Processing Upgrade Adds Power, Features, Pakage Has Good List Manager but Limits File Size to 128K
• 1987-07-13, Office Word Processing: The Current Crop (Displaywrite 4, Microsoft Word 3.11, Multimate Advantage II, Officewriter 5, Sammna Word IV, Word Perfect 4.2, Wordstar 2000 Plus)
• 1987-08-24, Word Processing Features Chart, Errors Corrected
• 1987-09-14, Samna Word IV: Word Processor Has Powerful Document Handling Features
• 1987-10-12, Executive Word Processors (Dac Easy Word II, Easy Extra, Einstein Writer, PFS Professional Write, Q&A Write, Textra, Volkswriter 3, Webster's New World Writer)
• 1987-10-19, Dac Easy Word II: Word Processor Update Improves Most Features
• 1987-11-16, Microsoft Word 4.0: Quantu Leap Puts Microsoft Word Out in Front, Greater Speed, Improved Interface Help Improve a Champion
• 1988-01-11, Wordstar 2000 Plus, Release 3: Faster Word Processor Now Ranks Among Best
• 1988-03-28, Word Processing For Professionals and Offices: InfoWorld Looks at 12 Powerful Programs (Deskworks 3.A1, Displaywrite 4, 1.0, Lotus Manuscript 1.0, MASS 11 7B, Microsoft Word 4.0, Multimate Advantage II 1.0, Office Writer 5.0, Samna Word IV 1.1, Word Perfect 4.2, Wordstar Professional 4.0, Wordstar 2000 Plus 3.0, XyWrite III Plus 3.52)
• 1988-05-23, Total Word: Lifetree Improves on the Volkswriter Tradition, Powerful Word Processor Chanbes Name But Not Interface (Version 1.011)
• 1988-06-06, ProfessionalWrite 2.0: Word Processor enhancements Useful for General Office Tasks
• 1988-06-20, WordPerfect 5.0: New Word Perfect Is Once Again King of the Hill, Word Processor Has More Features, Improved Performance
• 1988-08-01, Sprint 1.0: Word Provessor Is Slick, Quick, and Powerful, Borland's Chameleon-Like Product Mimics Old Favorites
• 1988-08-08, Office Writer, Version 6.0: Upstart Word Processor Adds New Features, Improvements
• 1988-08-29, Samna Word IV 2.0: Strong High-End Word Processing Package Improves
• 1988-09-26, Executive Word Processors: InfoWorld examines 11 easy-to-use word processors for the busy executive (Dac Easy Word II version 1.0, IBM Displaywrite Assistant version 1.0, MS Windows Write version 2.1, PC Type Plus, PC Write 2.71, Professional Write version 2.00, Q&A Write version 1.01, Textra version 5.2, Volkswriter Deluxe Plus version 1.0, Webster's New World Writer II version 1.0, Word Perfect Executive version 1.0)
• 1988-10-03, Wordstar Professional 5.0: Classic Word Processing Program Still Fighting, Update Challenges Rivals While Maintaining Original Interface
• 1988-11-14, Total Word 1.2 Adds Speed, Other Features, New version enhances speed and fixes bugs in its thesaurus and spelling checker
• 1988-11-14, Wintext 1.0 (Short Look)
• 1989-01-23, InfoWorld Evaluates 14 office/professional word processors: Heavy Duty Word Processing (Displaywrite 4 versions 1.0, Lotus Manuscript version 2.0, Microsoft Word version 4.0, Multimate Advantage II version 1.0, Nota Bene version 3.0, Office Writer version 6.0, PC Write version 3.02, Samna Word IV version 2.02, Sprint version 1.0, Total Word version 1.2, Word Perfect version 5.0, Wordstar Professional 5.0, Wordstar 2000 Plus release 3.0, Xywrite III plus With A La Carte Menus version 3.54)
• 1989-02-13, Windows-Based Samna Ami Takes WYSIWYG Approach, Executive word processor especially useful for people who need reasonably fancy formatting (Version 1.0)
• 1989-04-10, Zedit (Impressions)
• 1989-05-01, Beyond Word Writer 1.1 Is a Commpetitive Executive WP, A sleeper perched at the top of exeutive word processing, it is effective and easy to use
• 1989-05-22
  W.P. Kingsfield (Word Perfect pop-up template)
• 1989-06-12, Word Processing and Desktop Publishing: Two Worlds Meet
• 1989-06-19, Microsoft's Word 5.0 Pulls Ahead in War of Features, Offering an array of editing tools, it also handles complex document assembly, network support
• 1989-07-03 WordStar 5.5: Grand Old Man Gets a New Hat and Cane, This update of a classic adds enhancements while maintaining its traditioinal user interface
• 1989-08-07, Product Comparison: Executive Word Processing, InfoWorld evaluates seven applications that are fast, easy to learn and use, and optimized for all those chief-executive memos and correspondence (Ami Version 1.00A, Beyond Word Writer Version 1.1, Microsoft Windoes Write, Version 2.1, Professional Write Version 2.1, Q&A Write, Version 1.01, Volkdwriter 4 Version 1.02, Word Perfect Exeutive Version 1.0)
• 1989-09-18, Windows Spell from Palantier Does Checkups on Excel, Write Users (Impressions, Version 2.5)
• 1989-10-30, Displaywrite 4 Emerges With Welcome Enhancements, However, it still falls far short of word processors such as Microsoft Word and Word Perfect (Version 2.0)
• 1989-12-04, Ami Professional 1.1 Begins New Era in Word Processing, This Windoes-based word processor offers a cornucopia of features, easy-to-use interface
• 1990-01-15, Welcome Microsoft Word in A New Version for Windows, This dazzling graphical word processor will be a top-notch competitor for Ami, Word Perfect (Version 1.0)
• 1990-01-29, Product Comparison: Treasures Abound, The High-End Word Processors Get More Graphical and Sport Even More Features (Ami Professional Version 1.1, Describe Word Publisher Version 1, Displaywrite 4 Version 2, Legend Version 2.01, Lotus Manuscript Version 2.1, Microsoft Word Version 5.0, Multimate Version 4.0, Office Writer Version 6.1, Word for Windows Version 1.0, Word Perfect Version 5.1, Wordstar Version 5.5)
• 1990-04-23, Update to Wordstar Will Find a Home With Touch-Typists, Version 6.0 has improved paragraph style function, superb page preview, strong printer support
• 1990-06-18, Word for Word vs. Software Bridge: A Conversion Contest (Word Processing file conversion)
• 1990-08-13, Product Comparison: Making a Splash, InfoWorld judges the perfomrance of six graphical word processors from three platforms (Ami Professional 1.2, Word for Windoes 1.0, Describe 1.1, Word Perfect 5.1 for DOS)
• 1990-08-27, WordStar 2000 Is Finally a Strong, Competent Product: Version 3.5 performs well as an editing tool, although it still lacks many graphics functions.
• 1990-09-17, Professional Write Brings More Devises, Features: Version 2.2 includes better font management, unique grammar checking.
• 1990-10-29, Word Perfect's Little Sibling Is a Useful Word Processor: Letter Perfect is a fast, effective word processor for executives, laptop PC users, and students (Version 1.0)
• 1990-11-12, Volkswriter's Total Word Is Better but Not Good Enough: Update's features are limited and fall short of other high-end office/professional word processors. (Version 1.3)
• 1990-11-19, From Legend to Legacy, NBI Challenges Ami Pro, Word: This improved Windoes word processor helps you to produce elegant, complex documents. (Legacy Version 1.0)
• 1991-01-07, Product Comparison: Professional Word Processors. Windows illuminates new features but traditional programs stay competitive. (Ami Professional 1.2B, Displaywrite 5 Modification 01, Legacy 1.1, Multimate 4.0, Microsoft Word 5.5, Microsoft Word for Windoes 1.1, Word Perfect 5.1, Wordstar 6.0)
• 1991-05-13, ProfessionalWrite Plus Loads on High-End Features: Extennsive graphics features and file formats make this a near-professional word processor. (Version 1.0)
• 1991-06-24, WordPerfect Takes a Powerful Next Step: WordPerfect's professional word processor may bring the Next system into the mainstream. (Version 1.0, requires 2.0 Next Operating system)
• 1991-07-08, JustWrite Takes on Professional Write Plus: Symantec's latest entrant in executive word processor arena is graceful, easy to use (Version 1.0)
• 1991-10-14, Lotus leads word processing revolution: Ami Pro, Version 2.0 poses challenge to Word for Windows and WordPerfect for Windows.
• 1991-10-28, Product Comparison. Grammar Checkers: Keep your writing in line.InfoWorld examines six grammar checkers for DOS and Windows to keep your writing up to par. (DOS products
  Correct Grammar for DOS 3.0, Grammatik IV 2.0, PowerEdit 1.1, RightWriter 4.0; Windows Products
  Correct Grammar for Windows 1.0, Grammatik Windows 2.0) 
• 1991-10-28, The Writer's Toolkit: more than just your average grammar checker (Sidebar to Grammar Checkers Product Comparison)
• 1991-11-18, WordStar for Windows departs from its past.Program is fully Windows-compliant and features desktop publishing capabilities (Version 1.0)
• 1991-12-16, WordPerfect, Word battle; users win.Microsoft Word for Windows 2.0 defines the state of the art in Windows word processing; WordPerfect successfully ports its market-leading DOS product, but adds a few new features (Word for Windows 2.0, WordPerfect 5.1 for Windows)
• 1992-02-10, Windows Word Processors: InfoWorld tests the tools and features in six of the high-end graphical products (Ami Pro 2.0, DeScribe 3.0, Legacy 2.0, Microsoft Word for Windows 2.0, WordPerfect 5.1 for Windows, WordStar 1.0)
• 1992-05-25, Test Drive, Windows Word Processor: Midrange CA-Textor shines at mail merge, Lacks spreadsheet, macro language (Version 6.0)
• 1992-08-31, WordStar for Windows excels at frame-based tasks.Word processor is less suited to complex editing, long documents (Version 1.5)
• 1992-09-07, Test Drive: Word Processing Software. Quicksoft's PC-Write 4.0 polishes basic tools. /li>
• 1992-09-28, Ami Pro 3.0: leader in word processor race.Updated Windows package earns points for drag-and-drop editing, flexible formatting
• 1993-03-15, WordPerfect Windows 5.2 adds features.Improved tools include drag-and-drop editor, grammar checker, and file finder/indexer.
• 1993-08-09, DOS word processing is revived.Robust WordPerfect 6.0 is as good as high-end Windows packages (Version 6.0 for DOS)
• 1994-02-07, Product Comparison: War of the Words. Armed with ever-expanding features, the three superpowers of Windows word processing-Ami Pro, Word, and WordPerfect fight for word domination (Microsoft Word for Windows 6.0, Ami Pro for Windows 3.01, WordPerfect for Windows 6.0)
• 1994-05-30, Test Drive, Word Processors: WordPerfect enhances both the old and the new. Versions 5.1, 6.0 get minor upgrades (includes version 6.0a)
• 1994-11-14, First Looks, Word Processing.WordPerfect 6.1 heats up Windows war of words.Potential is there to be No. 1.
• 1995-01-30, WordPerfect 6.1 battles for best of breed. WordPerfecgt 6.1 and Word for Windows 6.0 now neck and neck in word processor race.
• 1995-07-10, First Looks, Word Processing: Lotus' WordPro: Ami reborn as groupware.Lotus Development Corp's Ami Pro, a modest but likable product, fought a losing battle against the titans of word processing: Novell Inc.'s WordPerfect and Microsoft Corp.'s Word. (Beta version)
• 1995-08-14, First Looks, Windows 95 word processor and spreadsheet, Word for Windows 95: For many users, the most popular application in Microsoft Corp./s Office 95 is Word for Windows 95. (Beta version)
• 1996-01-06, WordPro excels at 'team' work. (Word Pro 96 edition for Windows 95)
• 1996-09-30, Office 97's Word, Excel keep their top spots, add Web applications: Word boosts graphics tables (Microsoft Word 97, beta)

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• 12/09/2007, Finding the Best: The College Football Championship in America
• 08/10/2008, The Amateur Challenge of College Sports
• 10/01/2007, Taxing the Sports Factory
• 08/08/2007, Recruiting Student-Athletes
• The Benefit of Many Winners reprinted The NCAA News, 2/26/07.
• Too Much Money? Sports and the Budget. (10/11/2005)
• Preserving the Audience: The NCAA and the APR. (3/14/2005)
• The Enemy Is Us: Cost Reduction in College Sports. (1/31/2005)
• The Sports Imperative in America's Research Universities
• Sports Medicine, 1992.

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• "Epilogue: History and Our Heroes--The Bolívar Legend" and "Beginning to Read about Bolívar" in Simón Bolívar: Essays on the Life and Legacy of the Liberator, eds. David Bushnell and Lester D. Langley, 2008.
• Introduction: Columbus and the Encounter; Introduction: The New Nation in The Jay I. Kislak Collection at the Library of Congress (2007)
• Prologue: Venezuela's Permanent Dilemma in Steve Ellner and Daniel Ellinger, Venezuela Politics in the Chávez Era (2003)
• Venezuela en la época de transición (2002) [3MB]
• La Invención de Venezuela en el marco del sistema mundial: Transición, 1750-1850 [Pre-Publication, Spanish]
  The Invention of Venezuela within the World System: The Century of Transition, 1750-1850 [English] (2002)
• International Education--Indiana University(1994)
• A Changed World: NASULGC's Commission on International Affairs and the Post-Cold-War Era (1993)
• The Pedro Grases Library (1977)
• Venezuela Bibliography Project (1977)
• Parishes of the Bishopric of Caracas, 1771-1838 (1976)
• A City in the Midst of War: A Case Study of San Carlos de Austria, 1781-1824 (1976)
• Microfilm on the Abolition of Slavery in Venezuela (1976)
• Venezuela: Formation, Structure, and Dynamics of a Primate City. A Case Study of Caracas (1975)
• The First Venezuelan Coffee Cycle, 1830-1855 (1970)
• Manumission, Manumisos, and Aprendizaje in Republican Venezuela (1969)
• The Political Ideology of Fray Servando Teresa de Mier (1968) [4MB]
• Los esclavos en la legislación republicana de Venezuela (1967)
• Fray Servando Teresa de Mier y el Congreso Mexicano Constituyente (1964)
• "Mexico and the MLN" (1963)

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• Søren Bisgaard (1951-2009)
• Norma Jean Anderson(1932-2006)
• Introduction of Dr. John F. Schwaller, 15th President, SUNY Potsdam (2007)
• Pedro Grases (1909-2004)
• Stephen C. O'Connell (1916-2001)
• Remembering Herman B Wells (1902-2000)
• Congressional Tribute to Dr. John V. Lombardi,University of Florida President (11/1/1999)
• Louis J. Atkins (1920-1997)
• J. Wayne Reitz (1908-1993)
• Manuel Perez Vila(1922-1991)
• John Lombardi [1904-1989] and the Written Word, Foreword to Perspectives on the Community College by John V. Lombardi, Mary Luciana Lombardi, Janice P. Lombardi (1992)
• The Wit and Wisdom of José Gómez, for Dick and Bobbie Zdanis (1988)
• We Called It FARMER'S GARAGE, for Richard N. Farmer (1928-1987)
• Don Carlos Felice Cardot (1913-1986)
• James R. Scobie (1929-1981)
• Hubert Herring (1899-1967)

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(2010)
 
• Watching the Money, 08/20/2010.
• Søren Bisgaard (1951-2009)
• Lombardi Curriculum Vitae

 
(2009)
 
• Inside HigherEd: Reality Check
  • 11/09, Seeking Federal Support
    08/09, The Next Big Thing: Crisis and Transformation in American Higher Education
    05/08, Leveraging Crisis for Competitive Advantage
    03/25, The Mote in Thy Brother's Eye
    01/08, Budget Crises, Academic Change: A Fable
     
  (2008)
   
• "Epilogue: History and Our Heroes--The Bolívar Legend" and "Beginning to Read about Bolívar" in Simón Bolívar: Essays on the Life and Legacy of the Liberator, eds. David Bushnell and Lester D. Langley, 2008.
• Inside Higher Ed: Reality Check
  
• 10/19, Performing to Make Money—Making Money to Perform
  08/10, The Amateur Challenge of College Sports
  07/14, Naming Names: Ten Rules
  07/02, Keeping Donors and Their Heirs Happy
  05/27, Managing the Elite
  04/29, Financial Aid: Buying Student Talent
  04/23, Managing for Improvement: Part II
  04/21, Managing for Improvement: Part I
  02/2005, Pricing the Product.
   
• Perspectives on the Progression of Learning in Higher Education: An Interview with John Lombardi. IMS Global Learning Consortium Series on Learning Impact, 25 January 2008.

(2007)
 
• Rankings, Competition, and the Evolving American University by Lombardi and Elizabeth D. Capaldi, "Introduction" to The Top American Research Universities, 2007.
• The Top American Research Universities--2007 The Center for Measuring University Performance, 2007 by Lombardi, Elizabeth D. Capaldi, Craig W. Abbey.
• How Long Can I Last? in Patrick H. Sanaghan, Larry Goldstein, and Kathleen D. Gaval, Presidential Transitions: It's Not Just the Position, It's the Transition (appeared in 2007, copyright 2008)
• Introduction: Columbus and the Encounter; Introduction: The New Nation in The Jay I. Kislak Collection at the Library of Congress
• Introduction of Dr. John F. Schwaller, 15th President, SUNY Potsdam
• Inside Higher Ed: Reality Check
  • 12/09, Finding the Best: The College Football Championship in America
    11/27, Deconstructing Faculty Work
    11/15, Watch Lists
    11/02, Testing What?
    10/01, Taxing the Sports Factory
    09/26, The Academic Success Entitlement
    08/17, Ranking the Rankings 08/08, Recruiting Student-Athletes
    07/29, Differential Pricing
    07/23, University Presidential Memoirs
    06/18, What is Higher Education?
    05/18, The Constant Crisis of the Liberal Arts
    05/11, ACE and the Presidents
    05/08, Celebrating Creativity
    05/01, Reality Check: the Blog
     
  • On Large Scale Student Databases (04/20/07)
  • The Benefit of Many Winners (02/01/07)
    reprinted The NCAA News, 2/26/07.
  • Research Competition and the MLA (01/11/07)

(2006)
 

• The Top American Research Universities--2006
• Improving Graduation Rates: A Simple Method That Works, Change, 38:4 (2006), 44-58 by Elizabeth D. Capaldi, Lombardi, and Victor Yellen.
• Inside HigherEd: Reality Check
  • The Failure of Critical Thinking (12/12/2006)
    Comparing Wal-Mart and Tiffany (11/9/2006)
    Regulating the New Consumerism (9/28/2006)
    Virtues and Vices of 'Value Added' (8/10/2006)
    The Value of Commission Reports. (7/18/2006)
    Public and Private: What's the Difference? (3/6/2006)
    Can We Learn the Hard Languages. (1/1/2006)
• Norma Jean Anderson (1932-2006)

(2005)


• The Top American Research Universities--2005
• Deconstructing University Rankings: Medicine and Engineering, and Single Campus Research Competitiveness, 2005.
• UMass Amherst Budget Update:
  Amherst 250 Plan: Step One, An Interim Report (12/2/2005)
• Inside HigherEd: Reality Check
  • Paying for the Research Juggernaut. (12/15/2005
    Too Much Money? Sports and the Budget. (10/11/2005)
    We're All Getting Better. (10/17/2005)
    Trustees and Tenure. (10/7/2005)
    Should Our Students Study Chinese? (9/16/2005)
    Students Read Less. Should We Care? (8/23/2005)
    The Faculty Salary Game. (8/4/2005)
    Rearranging the Deck Chairs. (7/15/2005)
    Grade Inflation and Abdication. (6/3/2005)
    Equalizing Merit and Economic Opportunity. (5/19/2005)
    Accountability, Improvement and Money. (5/3/2005)
    Fuzzy Numbers [student/faculty ratio]. (4/15/2005)
    Luxury, Subsidy and Opportunity: Purchasing a Quality Education. (3/28/2005)
    Preserving the Audience: The NCAA and the APR. (3/14/2005)
    Who Gets In, What It Costs. (2/28/2005)
    Missing the Mark: Graduation Rates and University Performance. (2/14/2005)
    The Enemy Is Us: Cost Reduction in College Sports. (1/31/2005)
• Pedro Grases (1909-2004)
• The University of Massachusetts Amherst Budget Update FY05 (2/4/2005)

(2004)


• The Top American Research Universities--2004
• Comparing Apples and Oranges: Five Years of Measuring University Performance at TheCenter
• The UMass Amherst Financial Master Plan: FY02-FY09 (1/28/2004)

(2003)


• The Top American Research Universities--2003
• The Sports Imperative in America's Research Universities
• From the Chancellor: Research Defines the Flagship University
  (UMass Magazine, Summer 2003)
• Budget Document Archive: 2003
  Approaching the Campus Budget: Research[posted October 23, 2003]
  Approaching the Campus Budget [posted September 18, 2003]
  Report to the President [August 4, 2003]
  Campus Response to FY04 Budget [posted May 6, 2003]
• Competing for Quality: The Public Flagship Research University. Reilly Center Public Policy Fellow, February 26-28, 2003. The Reilly Center for Media & Public Affairs. Louisiana State University.
• The Academic Imperative
  El imperativo académico
  February 7, 2003, University of Massachusetts Amherst  
• Prologue: Venezuela's Permanent Dilemma

(2002)


• The Top American Research Universities--2002
• University Governance, Organization, and Competitiveness
• Palabras mágicas e interpretaciones divergentes: El contexto histórico del diálogo entre Venezuela y los Estados Unidos, Asociación Fulbright de Venezuela, September 26, 2002, Caracas.
  [English version: Magic Words and Divergent Interpretations: The Historical Context for Conversations between Venezuela and the United States]
• The Culture of Achievement at UMassAmherst



(2001)


• The Top American Research Universities--2001
• Quality Engines: The Competitive Context for Research Universities
• Statewide Governance: The Myth of the Seamless System.
• Stephen C. O'Connell (1916-2001)
• Quality Engines: The Strategic Principles for Competitive Universities in the Twenty-First Century [English version of: Generadores de Calidad: Los Principios Estratégicos de las Universidades Competitivas en el Siglo XXI Presented at the Simposio Evaluación y Reforma de la Educación Superior en Venezuela, 15 y 16 de Marzo de 2.001. Sala "Francisco de Miranda" Biblioteca Central, Universidad Central de Venezuela]



(2000)


• La Invención de Venezuela en el marco del sistema mundial: Transición, 1750-1850 [Pre-Publication, Spanish]
  The Invention of Venezuela within the World System: The Century of Transition, 1750-1850 [English]
• How Classifications Can Help Colleges
• The Top American Research Universities--2000
• The Myth of Number One: Indicators of Research University Performance
• Academic Libraries in a Digital Age
• Remembering Herman B Wells 1902-2000)
• History and Our Heroes-The Bolívar Legend [Draft]
• University Improvement: The Permanent Challenge



(1999)


• Congressional Tribute to Dr. John V. Lombardi
  University of Florida President
• A Decade of Performance, 1999 [Lombardi and Elizabeth D. Capaldi].
• Capturing Opportunities
• Colleges Shouldn't Be Employment Agencies
• The Undergraduate Experience
• UF's Future Course: Quality and Productivity



(1998)


• Who Needs the Past?
• UF Launches Graduate Fellowship Initiative
• Growth and Quality: Tracking Student Numbers at the University of Florida
• Making Things Work
• Computing Is Essential To Everything We Do -- Including Education
• The Net, the Universities, and the Market



(1997)


• Free Markets and Competition: Taking Public Universities Into the 21st Century
• Louis J. Atkins (1920-1997)
• Students, Universities, and Graduation Rates: Some Times Simple Things Don't Work
• Learning to Count in Higher Education



(1995-97)


• The Accountability Handbook from the University of Florida
  
• Measuring University Performance: The Series, Lombardi and Elizabeth D. Capaldi
  
     (1995)
  State Support,
  Teaching
  Classrooms
  Research
    (1996)
  Excess Hours
  Transfer Students
  Research Benefits
  Student Quality
  Financial Aid
  Costs
    (1997)
  The Bank
  The Ph.D.

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(1996)


• Quality, Productivity, and Budget: It's Performance That Counts
• The Budget Matters: Covered Degrees and the Return on Research Investment
  
• A Proposal for Degree Funding: Draft 1/5/1996
  

  (1983-1996)
  

• InfoWorld Reviews and Notes



(1995)

• Life, Liberty, and Lost Faith
• Teaching
• Not even in Cyberspace Can We Get a Free Lunch
• Killer Applications, the Net, and the Wild, Wild West



(1994)


• Dealing with Hate on Our Campus



(1993)


• J. Wayne Reitz (1908-1993)
• A Reality Check on Cyberspace
• Change is at Heart of University's Success
• What's Going On?
• Fact and Imagination
• A Changed World: NASULGC's Commission on International Affairs and the Post-Cold-War Era

(1992)


• Waging War: The Arts and Sciences, the University, and the People
• Sports Medicine
• Manuel Perez Vila (1922-1991)
• Lombardi, Mary Luciana Lombardi, Janice P. Lombardi, John Lombardi and the Written Word, Foreword to Perspectives on the Community College (1992)

(1991)


• Teaching The Computer: A Decade of Dazzle
  in Florida Technology in Education Quarterly, 1991
  and in /Update (Northeast Regional Data Center, University Florida, 5-6, 1991)
  

(1990)


• Competition and Choices
• The Florida Challenge for Higher Education

(1989)


• Don Carlos Felice Cardot (1913-1986)

(1988)


• The Wit and Wisdom of José Gómez

(1987)


• We Called It FARMER'S GARAGE
• The ITM/MUCIA Program in Malaysia: Cooperation in Higher Education, 1987 (9MB).
• So, What's Your Major?
• Excellence at Risk, College of Arts and Sciences

(1984)


• International Education--Indiana University
• Computer Literacy at Indiana University Bloomingon

(1983)


• Computer Literacy: The Basic Language and Concepts (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1983) [20mb PDF]
• Simón Bolívar: el sueño de una América unida

(1982)


• James R. Scobie (1929-1981)

(1980-1982)


• Data Domain Newsletters, 1981-1982
  The Data Domain Newsletter, August 1981
  The Data Domain Newsletter, September 1981
  The Data Domain Newsletter, October 1981
  The Data Domain Newsletter, November 1981
  The Data Domain Newsletter, January/February 1982
  The Data Domain Newsletter, March/April 1982
  The Data Domain Newsletter, July/August 1982
  The Data Domain Newsletter, September/October 1982
   
  
• Small Computer Support Group Newsletter, 1980-1982
  Small Computer Support Group Newsletter, No. 1, November 1980
  Small Computer Support Group Newsletter, No. 2, February 1981
  Small Computer Support Group Newsletter, No. 3, April 1981
  Small Computer Support Group Newsletter, No. 4, July 1981
  Small Computer Support Group Newsletter, No. 5, December 1981
  Small Computer Support Group Newsletter, No. 6, May 1982 (shows 1981)



(1977)

• The Pedro Grases Library
• Venezuela Bibliography Project



(1976)

• Parishes of the Bishopric of Caracas, 1771-1838
• A City in the Midst of War: A Case Study of San Carlos de Austria, 1781-1824
• Microfilm on the Abolition of Slavery in Venezuela

(1975)


• Venezuela: Formation, Structure, and Dynamics of a Primate City. A Case Study of Caracas

(1970)


• The First Venezuelan Coffee Cycle, 1830-1855

(1969)


• Manumission, Manumisos, and Aprendizaje in Republican Venezuela

(1968)


• Hubert Herring (1899-1967)

(1967)


• Los esclavos en la legislación republicana de Venezuela

(1964)


• Fray Servando Teresa de Mier y el Congreso Mexicano Constituyente

(1963)


• "Mexico and the MLN" (1963)

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