EDUCAUSE Review Articles and Strategic Planning, IT

The new infusion of new technologies is strongly impacting higher education. Entering students expect high levels of IT support. It is challenging to predict future technologies and have the time to plan for it. Higher education is becoming more customer-driven.

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.

The author discusses what his campus has done to prepare for the net gen learner.

The authors discuss reality of today's current students and their expectations of the institutions they attend.

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.

The authors discuss the issue of whether having the best technology available is the most important way of making the university competitive.

The authors discuss the reality of IT investments in higher education.

Today's need for faster responsiveness has brought about the "adaptive organization" strategic planning model for IT, whereby institutions focus not on planning but on sensing and responding to the changing environment in as close to real time as possible.

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.

If a solid, reliable information technology infrastructure is required simply to be in the game and to compete, IT certainly matters a great deal.