News and Notes.

This article focuses on developments related to organizational research. The programme TEMPUS, proposed by the Commission of the European Community and adopted by the Council on May 7th 1990 will provide in the framework of the overall PHARE budget for assistance to the countries of Central and Eastern Europe, financial support to promote the quality and support the development of the higher education systems of Hungary, Poland, Czechoslovakia, Yugoslavia and Bulgaria. The increasing pace of global change is already providing a powerful challenge for change agents operating as consultants independently or internally to corporations or public utilities. In Europe, however, the challenge is even greater, as the struggle to establish economic and political unity attempts to accommodate the collapse of iron-curtain communism. The 1992 conference of the ACM Special Interest Group on Computer Personnel Research seeks research on the management of information systems developers and users.