EDUCAUSE Review Articles; Business Continuity Planning; and Articles, Papers, and Reports

The authors discuss the importance of business continuity and disaster recovery planning but stress that people in each department need to understand how important their roles are to the restoring of services, managing the crisis, and returning to normal operations.

EDUCAUSE presents the top-ten IT-related issues in terms of strategic importance to the institution, as revealed by the eighth annual EDUCAUSE Current Issues Survey. This year, Funding IT moves back to the top of the list.

In response to natural disaster recovery concerns, one solution for digital asset management and preservation needs is to create institutional repositories. Developing IR programs is an opportunity for CIOs to address business continuity issues as well as impact the academic community.

In the wake of Hurricane Katrina, Brian D. Voss, CIO at LSU, discusses the challenges from his experience in providing disaster-response aid. Disaster-recovery plans and principles must focus on the need for a flexibile and straightforward plan as all disasters inevitably include surprises.

This EDUCAUSE Review web bonus includes an interview with Brian Voss, the CIO at LSU.

EDUCAUSE presents the findings from its fifth annual Current Issues Survey. For the second year in a row, funding of information technology heads the list of the top-ten issues that IT leaders in higher education see as their most critical challenges.