Documents Contributed by ECAR and Higher Education Transformation

This study, designed and analyzed by ECAR on behalf of the Council of Higher Education Management Associations (CHEMA), identifies the forces of change that are building for higher education and seeks to understand their potential implications. The report adds the voice of higher education's administrative leadership to the dialogue about the future of our institutions. Sponsored by 22 CHEMA member associations, the study examines how administrators and officials engaged in college and university support functions anticipate that higher education will change over the next ten years by identifying the changes, opportunities, and threats these leaders foresee for higher education, for their institutions, and for specific functional areas. In addition, the study discusses how prepared institutions are to manage change and shape their own futures.

In 2002, EDUCAUSE began to operate ECAR, the EDUCAUSE Center for Applied Research. The Center's mission is to enhance critical decisions about IT by supplying timely and meaningful information and analysis to decision makers. Since January 2002, ECAR has published 10 major studies, nearly 70 research analyses, and nearly two dozen case studies. Today, nearly 300 colleges and universities subscribe to ECAR. This session will provide an overview of major ECAR research related to: IT outsourcing, wireless communications, enterprise systems, IT funding, faculty use of course management systems, and others.

Presentation at the November 2003 ECAR Symposium