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The University in the Networked Economy and Society: Challenges and Opportunities

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Title:The University in the Networked Economy and Society: Challenges and Opportunities (ID: ERM0866)
Author(s):Yochai Benkler (Harvard Law School)
Origin:EDUCAUSE Review Articles (10/23/2008)
Type:Articles, Papers, and Reports
Abstract:

The networked information economy and society present a new social, technical, and economic environment within which the university functions. To understand the new challenges and opportunities this environment presents, we need a usable characterization of the core new characteristics of both the environment and the university as a system and how those characteristics interact to define today's challenges.

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The Organization of the Organization: CIOs’ Views on the Role of Central IT

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Title:The Organization of the Organization: CIOs’ Views on the Role of Central IT (ID: ERM0761)
Origin:EDUCAUSE Review Articles (10/19/2007)
Type:Articles, Papers, and Reports
Abstract:

Thirteen CIOs/Vice-Presidents discuss various aspects of the blending of responsibilities that has led to a current “identity crisis” in higher education information technology and to the organizational confusion over the role of centralized and decentralized IT services.

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Re-centering the Research Computing Enterprise

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Title:Re-centering the Research Computing Enterprise (ID: ERM06310)
Author(s):Michael A. McRobbie (Indiana University System)
Origin:EDUCAUSE Review Articles (2006)
Type:Articles, Papers, and Reports
Abstract:

Research computing must remain centralized in order to best serve higher education institutions and the future advancement of research.

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