Introduction Need for Productivity. need for greater productivity requires employees to work smarter with fewer layers of people in a collaborative environment. Sleeker, flatter organizations-supported by rapidly emerging technologies--require productive, agile workers able to work collectively as well as individually. skills and attitudes that worked in the past no longer fit these flattened, information-intensive companies. The agile business has explicit for changing; like 'learning, innovation, and re-engineering.' These change are managed with the same commitment given to operational processes (Robinson, 1996, p. 19). Because agile businesses require a new and different type of employee in the workplace, universities have had to respond to these changes in the classroom by emphasizing teamwork, cooperation, and collaboration--mirroring today's workplace trends. This emphasis on introducing human relation skills into the course of study is new to most curriculums. As a result, instructors are required to move away from the traditional stand-up and lecture method; instead, they are becoming facilitators (Merriam and Brockett, 1997, p. 41), advisors, and coaches of learning in an interactive environment. This change also puts new responsibilities on students as learners. They are now active partners in their own learning process. Because of the changes that are sweeping across corporate America, universities have had to respond with curriculum modifications preparing students for a new type of workplace. This is especially true in colleges and universities with schools or departments of Office Information Systems (OIS). At Pace University the OIS Department resides within the School of Computer Science and Information Systems (IS) where it is one leg of a triumvirate consisting of Computer Science (CS)--concentrating on hardware and software engineering; Information Systems (IS)--focusing on business and manufacturing transaction systems, operations management, enterprise data management, and networking; and OIS--applying a socio-technical focus to the end user in desktop computing and work group performance (Regan, 1996, p. 5). Impact of technology. Historically, mainframe computers were the backbone of large, forward-thinking, information-intensive organizations. As time passed, personal computers (PCs) found their way onto desktops, giving greater power with ease to end-users. Today, employees are linked through distributed networks, taking advantage of the strength mainframes offered, coupled with the benefits of user-friendly PCs. Workers are being provided with faster, easier, and less costly ways of managing and controlling their own information along with acquiring access to many new types of technologies: multimedia, group support systems, video conferencing, the Internet/ WWW (Jenkins, M., 1995), and image systems. These emergent (often interactive) technologies are being accessed at lightning speeds never before dreamed possible by end-users. End-users are those employees who use technology to carry out their jobs as compared to employees whose jobs are technology (Regan & O'Connor, 1994, p. 670). tools not only support individual and work group processes, but also contribute to individual and overall organizational performance (Regan, 1996, p. 2). Pace University OIS Curriculum Challenge CSIS Mission Statement. Because of its residence in CSIS, the OIS Department reflects the school's mission aspiring to innovative leadership in preparing men and women for meaningful work, lifelong learning, responsible participation in a new and dynamic information age ... programs are responsive to the rapid pace of technological development (Pace University, 1996-1998, Undergraduate Catalog, p. 75). Regional Business Requirements. As Pace University is situated in both Manhattan and Westchester County, the OIS Department responds to the employment demands of these locations--potential employment sites for our graduates. …