Strategic Planning
- A Foundation for Digital Repositories
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9/26/2007
The new DSpace Foundation is fostering open access to scholarly works with the open source DSpace platform for storing, managing, and distributing digital collections. Here, Campus Technology interviews Michele Kimpton, executive director of the nascent nonprofit created this past July by MIT and HP as a successor to their joint DSpace project begun in 2002.
- Converged Security: Can Ex-Cops, Propeller Heads, and Bean Counters Make Nice?
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9/14/2007
A growing trend in the corporate sector is to more closely integrate or even merge the oversight of information security, physical security, and fiscal security. Is this trend relevant to higher education? What can we learn from corporate experiences?
- In Search of Good Governance
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9/12/2007
Since his retirement in 2005, UC Berkeley's Associate Vice Chancellor and CIO Emeritus John W. (Jack) McCredie has devoted much of his professional energy to studying, writing about, and speaking about IT governance and leadership in higher education. Currently an ECAR senior fellow, he is leading Educause's study of IT governance to be released in early 2008. CT asked McCredie for his perspectives on IT governance issues.
- IT Executive Transitions Underway
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9/12/2007
Several institutions report that new senior-level IT officers are appointed or top IT positions are becoming available. The University of Ottawa named Sylvain Chalut as the new CIO; the University of Arizona has appointed Michele Norin as interim CIO; UC San Bernardino named Spencer Freund as its new vice president for information services; and top-level IT posts are coming open at North Georgia College and State University and North Carolina State University.
- CIO Transitions: Ottawa; Ariz.; NC State; Georgia; Cal. State
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9/10/2007
The University of Ottawa has named Sylvain Chalut as its new chief information officer. Chalut, who was most recently director of Business Relations Management with Bombardier Aéronautique's information systems services, will provide "strategic leadership for IT across the university by ensuring business alignment, performance management and investment management."
- Teaching with Technology: Facilitating the Process (Part 2)
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9/5/2007
Colleges and universities across the nation have realized that technology is an absolute when considering how courses on their campuses will be delivered--either face to face sessions, through distance learning sessions, or in mixed formats.
- Teaching with Technology: Facilitating the Process
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8/29/2007
Instructors in colleges of education cannot teach prospective teachers to use technology unless the faculty, themselves, use technology in the college of education classrooms as a part of their instruction. There is something about "modeling" that goes a long way in education, regardless of the level of education under consideration.
- What Is the CIO's Job, Anyway?
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8/16/2007
What is the CIO's job, anyway? Is it to know the nuts and bolts about every piece of software and hardware on campus? Is it to know "the seven layers" and be ready to get in there to fix an e-mail server? Apparently, there are those on campus who still look at the head "IT guy" that way.
- OCCC Taps SAS to Improve Campus Ops Management
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8/2/2007
Oklahoma City Community College (OCCC) has selected Business intelligence firm SAS to develop a system using its Enterprise Intelligence Suite for Education to help the school manage its finances and enhance its student recruiting and retention.
- Online U Research: Popularity of Online Universities Rising
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7/31/2007
Half of a group of prospective college students who said they would be interested in taking an online course in the next 12 months also said they would like to enroll in a completely online degree program, according to a recent survey conducted by the American InterContinental University Online.
- Wharton, Gartner School CIOs
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7/27/2007
Recognizing IT's increasing stature as a key element to any business strategy, the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia) has partnered with technology consulting and market research firm Gartner (Stamford, CT) to launch a Chief Information Officer (CIO) as Full Business Partner program from Oct. 28 to Nov. 2.
- Are Collaboration and Learning Environments (CLEs) Tools or Countries?
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7/11/2007
While CLEs are tools they are also much more than tools; they are tools that are developed, maintained, and financed by an evolving community of investors, educators, and software developers.
- Mining Data To Find Gold
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7/5/2007
At Coppin State University in Baltimore, MD, colorful screen displays can tell a dean or provost at a glance and a click of the mouse what a faculty member's course load is, how heavily a classroom is being utilized, and even how many students from a specific high school have applied and been accepted to date.
- Utah Names New CIO, Streamlines IT Across Campus
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6/25/2007
The University of Utah named Stephen Hess its top information technology executive. Hess, who was the school's associate academic vice president for information technology, will become chief information officer and preside over a new, unified IT department.
- U Buffalo Seeks Student Input on Info Tech Investments
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6/25/2007
The University of Buffalo is seeking direct input from a sometimes undertapped cohort in deciding where to put its future information technology investments: students, faculty, and staff.
- Building for Student Success
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6/13/2007
San Jose State University AVP Mary Jo Gorney-Moreno comments on the process of creating a high-tech student success center on campus.
- Ohio U CIO Presents $8 MM Plan to Bolster Campus Tech
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6/12/2007
Ohio University Chief Information Officer Brice Bible presented the Ohio U board of trustees a proposal for strengthening the university's central information technology systems at a cost of $8 million over five years.
- When Ideas Move without Friction
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5/23/2007
An interview with the Software Freedom Law Center's (SFLC) Eben Moglen about the future of collaboration and technology.
- Survey Said ...
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5/10/2007
I look forward each year to the EDUCAUSE annual Current Issues Survey Report. There is always something new and interesting, be it the ways in which the survey instrument itself has been shaped to reflect the association’s view of the field or in the results of the survey.
- The American University and the Ownership of Ideas
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5/9/2007
The Software Freedom Law Center's (SFLC) Eben Moglen is one of the high-powered attorneys representing the challenge to Blackboard Inc.'s patent of certain learning technologies.
- IT Key to Saudi Arabia 25-Year Strategy for Higher Ed
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4/23/2007
Saudi Arabia is preparing a 25-year strategy to map out its higher education system so that it can be "in tune with the country's development and job market requirements," the kingdom announced. Information technology will a central element of the plan.
- Report Profiles IT Training at U.S. Universities
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4/20/2007
Dublin, Ireland-based research firm Research and Markets has released a new report that tracks how various institutions of higher learning in the United States are trying to improve the computer literacy of their faculty and students.
- Institutional Intelligence
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4/11/2007
Fewer than 100 higher education institutions in the United States have recognized data warehousing programs. This represents an adoption rate of less than 3 percent for a discipline well into its second decade of mainstream practice.
- Study: Online Degree Program Preferences
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4/5/2007
What are the most popular online programs in higher education? According to a report from education consulting firm Eduventures, most students enrolled in programs online are participating in bachelor's degree programs, followed by associate degrees.
- USC Innovation Institute To Incubate Arts ... and Sciences Too
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4/3/2007
University of Southern California president Steven Sample outlined a strategic plan for USC's new Stevens Institute for Innovation designed to consolidate all is innovation transfer and development operations under a single hub, as well as to extend those operations across as many disciplines as possible--arts as well as sciences.
