Zope/Plone - Is it the right solution?

[N.Davis]

kbperry wrote:
   I attend a very large university (around
> 30,000 students), and the CS site will need to be updated by many
> people that don't have technical skills (like clerical staff).
That is exactly the kind of thing Plone is good at. A good match I would 
say.

Check out  http://plone.org/documentation/faq

The answers to your other questions can be found there.