Cost Analysis or Assessment

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

Learn how Weill Cornell Medical College employs a nontraditional risk management methodology to accurately measure risk, build compelling and successful budget requests, and graphically illustrate trends understandable to technical and nontechnical stakeholders. Attendees will receive Excel tools they can use to manage their own risk assessments in this way.

Like many WebCT campuses, SUNY Delhi must select a new LMS and complete migrating to the new system in the next year. The total cost of ownership comparison led us to adopt a remotely hosted open source solution. We'll examine the facts, figures, and progress of moving from WebCT to Moodle and integrating with Banner.

Various financial models that were looked at will be presented and discussed in great detail with input from the audience. UMB's evaluation of vendor solutions and subsequent decisions will be presented and justified. Analysis of monthly rates, construction and retrofit costs, modifications to billing systems, and coordination with facilities staff will be covered.

A study explored cost versus impact on teaching and learning of small and large technology projects.

In 2004, MIT and Stanford University began the Total Cost of IT project to measure, or at least estimate, the total cost of IT at those two institutions. This bulletin describes the project costing model, processes, and findings and the ways this model can be replicated on other campuses. It explains how to categorize spending, which questions to ask, how to manage and analyze results, and how to extract a meaningful picture of IT spending.

This research bulletin, which draws on research conducted by ECAR in 2004 on the state of information technology funding, examines how higher education uses chargebacks for funding IT. It is based on data from 472 chief information officers and 386 chief financial officers, as well as qualitative interviews and case studies. The bulletin focuses on the pressures that drive change in IT and where and how institutions use IT chargebacks. It also explores some emerging models that may suggest the future for technology chargebacks.