EDUCAUSE | Presented at EDUCAUSE Annual Conferences and Higher Education Marketplace

The Role of Information Technology in an Age of Access, Affordability, and Accountability

drupal — Tue, 30 Oct 2007 13:42:34 -0500

Approximately a year ago, the Commission on the Future of Higher Education formed by U.S. Secretary of Education Margaret Spellings issued its report, A Test of Leadership: Charting the Future of U.S. Higher Education, which called for dramatic improvement in the national higher education system. Focusing on issues of access, affordability, quality, and accountability, the report outlined significant shortcomings and recommended sweeping changes. Our panelists, all members of the commission, will address issues raised in the report and the role technology can play in support of the recommendations.

Barry Munitz, President and CEO of the J. Paul Getty Trust, Speaking at the EDUCAUSE '99 General Session.

drupal — Tue, 21 Sep 2004 16:25:43 -0500

Higher education is moving from a cottage industry monopoly to a competitive knowledge industry, with new players and new rules. This session will address the roles of specialization and niche marketing in the emerging knowledge industry, and the unbundling of traditional institutional functions that must accompany them. Information technology is a critical strategic asset for competing in this new environment, but not the only one. A checklist of institutional survival strategies, drawn from the academic, corporate, and non-profit sectors, will form part of this discussion.

Rethinking the Land Grant University for the Digital Age

drupal — Tue, 21 Sep 2004 17:00:57 -0500

The twentieth century has seen research and preparation of professionals at land grant universities as significant factors in making American agriculture and industry flourish. The dawn of the new century sees a different America: a larger, more diverse, complex, and predominantly urban society; new industries requiring a more highly skilled and educated workforce than before; new demands on elementary and secondary as well as higher education. Land grant research universities have the opportunity and the obligation to create a new vision of service to the nation--a vision whose implementation will be built upon computer-based technologies and the Internet.

Shirley Ann Jackson, President of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and former Chair of the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission

drupal — Fri, 18 Jul 2003 15:09:28 -0500

At the millennium's dawn, the United States is in a quiet crisis not well recognized or understood. A century of science discovery and engineering innovation has brought us unprecedented comfort, prosperity, and leadership. Yet, the forces which brought us to this zenith are eroding: the talent that it rests upon is not being replaced in sufficient numbers. Our future prosperity, our global preeminence, and even our homeland security could be jeopardized. We must ask, who will do the science in the 21st century? We must further ask, what is the role of higher education in addressing this critical issue? How must universities adapt to meet the changes occurring in science and technology, and in a world that is quickly and quietly catching up in the very areas we where have excelled in the past?

Does the American Approach to Information Technology Apply to Europe? The Cultural Paradigm

drupal — Mon, 21 Oct 2002 12:42:22 -0500

The economical model of European universities strongly differs from the business-oriented American model. In Europe the state is the main provider of funds and gives strong guidelines to the university to fulfil its mission. At the same time, there is much less competition among universities. This means that the driving force toward the use of new technologies strongly differs. We will show through examples from different countries how this situation influences the approach in the use of new technologies.