Our campus, CSU Bakersfield, has recently subscribed to the CSU GIS Specialty at CSU San Francisco. This will allow us to have access to GIS software: ArcInfo, ArcView, and ArcCad. We currently have DOS version of AtlasPro and AtlasGIS.
The CSUB Sociology Department has implemented a GIS Lab on campus. This lab is used to teach upper division Social Geography classes; GIS courses are also taught for Behavioral Science Masters students. GIS modules have been incorporated into Political Science Senior Seminar classes, Economics Senior Seminar classes, and Political Geography courses.
Annually our campus hosts GEOFORUM, a GIS conference from our consortium, Kern URISA. This GIS exposure has brought interest in GIS to many departments on campus, and may soon extend to the Marketing Department, Finance Department, Geology Department, etc.
My concerns as the technical support for GIS our campus involve installation, implementation, and course development for our GIS faculty. We hope to have the GIS software and pertinent cousework available on the campus network for access by student and faculty in the Fall 1996 quarter.
Plans for use of GIS include incorporating GIS mapping in the analysis of business, social science, etc. data. For example, several sociologists are researching what they call religiosity (do people pray, how often, church attendance, etc.). Mapping of the demographic data can give results that may enhance the analysis.