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B-164031(1) 1 (1971-09-08)

handle is hein.gao/gaobaaenq0001 and id is 1 raw text is: RESTICTED - Net t oe .Ieade'1 - AceountIag Office except on te b f specific approval by the Office f CoflgresaU8I Ro l p -s COMPTROLLER GENERAL OF I ED T Ir_a II 0 ~WASHIN4GTON. D.C.204 B-164031() SEP 8 197 C-f Dear Mr. Terry: In accordance with your letters of April 2 and May 6, I 1971, and discussions with you, the General Accounting Office inquired into the involvement of the Office of Education, De- 2,partment of Health, Education, and Welfare (HEW), in the de- 2 -velopment of an information system called the College Suggestor. The College Suggestor is an information retrieval system for use by students and guidance counselors to quickly locate the names of colleges and universities having characteristics which the student believes are important in his selection of a college to attend. The characteristics in the system include curriculum, tuition, location, and student enrollment. BACKGROUND The College Suggestor was developed by Northwestern Uni- versity, Evanston, Illinois, duringThtfie'period July 1965 through March 1969 and was financed with funds provided by the Office of Education under contracts covering two separate phases of its development. The first phase, which began July 1, 1965, dealt with the development of a prototype, and the second phase, which began May 1, 1967, was for an evalua- tion of the prototype. The amount of the contract for the first phase was $55,077 and for the second phase $48,053. To accomplish the second phase, 300 College Suggestors were field tested in five Chicago metropolitan area high schools to de- termine the importance of the characteristics *in the system and its effectiveness as a means for information retrieval. Early in the 1960's, Chronicle Guidance Publications, Inc. of Moravia, New York, developed and marketed the Col~ege View- Deck which is a system that performs the same function as the College Suggestor. When Chronicle learned that the Office of Education was developing the College Suggestor, it requested C2-your predecessor, Representative Samuel Stratton, on January 5, - 1966, to inquire into the matter. Chronicle's position was that it could not compete and should not have to compete with a 50TH ANNIVERSARY 1921- M94971 ?

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