EDUCAUSE Review Articles and IT Funding

The authors discusses the struggle to keep a school's technology up to date and the ability to finance it without breaking the bank.

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

The author discusses the dichotomy between pursuing innovative research and the funding and administration of it.

Campus IT leaders are responsible for providing a view of the technology changes that are coming over the horizon and a vision of where the “ship” of IT should be headed. The retiring EDUCAUSE president offers ten nautical maxims for charting this course for higher education IT.

The authors argue that most utilities have become standardized commodities that are no longer evolving, campus IT is in a constant state of change.  Therefore, it should not be relegated to commodity status.

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.

The authors discuss the importance of university CIOs and other senior executives having basic IT knowledge to make IT investment decisions.

Leo I. Higdon Jr addresses the comprehensive strategic technology plan that the College of Charleston has implemented to ensure effective IT management. During an informal assessment, three issues arose as the most critical factors in determining success: internal communication, recurring funding, and transparent and collaborative decision-making.

EDUCAUSE offers a list of readings on each of the top-ten information technology issues identified by the 2005 Current Issues Survey.

EDUCAUSE presents the findings from its sixth annual Current Issues Survey. For the third year in a row, the funding of information technology remains the number-one IT-related issue in terms of its strategic importance to the institution.