EDUCAUSE Review Magazine, Volume 42, Number 6, November/December 2007

• Accountability, Ethics, and Conflict of Interest: Questions for Campus IT Professionals
  The EDUCAUSE Executive Officers

features

• The Organization of the Organization: CIOs' Views on the Role of Central IT
  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.
• Winds of Change: Charting the Course for IT in the Twenty-First Century
  Brian L. Hawkins
  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 Internet at Risk: The Need for Higher Education Advocacy
  James X. Dempsey
  The higher education community, which has hosted many of the creators of the Internet and which has woven this technology into every aspect of education, now has a responsibility to work to defend an Internet policy framework based on user control, innovation, trust, and openness/competition.
• Sharing Visual Arts Images for Educational Use: Finding a New Angle of Repose
  Gretchen Wagner
  Educational institutions should be actively rethinking how they are accessing and using copyrighted visual arts images, and they should be exploring an approach that seeks to address copyright owners' interests, as well as users' needs, in an environment that encourages increased, shared access to these images for teaching and study.
• Imagining Tomorrow's Future Today
  Art St. George and the 2007 EDUCAUSE Evolving Technologies Committee
  Focusing on "imagining the future," the EDUCAUSE Evolving Technologies Committee looked at seven technologies and trends of 2007: the Web, Google Apps, Web conferencing, m-learning, 3D printing, virtualization, and information lifecycle management and physical storage technologies for digital preservation.
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  Twelve Days in China: More Similarities Than Differences
  Diana G. Oblinger
  In June 2007, a joint U.S. delegation took a twelve-day trip to China, exploring developments in higher education, business, and IT through visits to six universities, as well as the Ministry of Education, the Ministry of Science and Technology, and two research parks.
• Recommended Readings on the Top-Ten IT Issues
  EDUCAUSE offers a list of readings on each of the top-ten information technology issues identified by the 2007 Current Issues Survey.

departments

• www
  On the Web
• Leadership
  The Place of Information Technology in Planning for Innovation
  Michael A. McRobbie
• E-Content
  Student Content Creators: Convergence of Literacies
  Joan K. Lippincott
• IT Myths
  The Myth about Controlling IT
  Diana G. Oblinger and Brian L. Hawkins
• New Horizons
  The nanoHUB: Community and Collaboration
  Carie Windham
• policy@edu
  Spectrum Reallocation for Public Safety and Broadband: The 700 MHz Auction
  Timothy Lance and Heidi Wachs
• Viewpoints
  Prodding the ERP Turtle
  Kenneth C. Green
• Homepage
  In Service to Higher Education
  Cynthia Golden

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