Infrastructure
The expectations and demands of higher education students today requires institutions to offer a brand new level of service and engagement. While there are many tools that can help to create these student experiences, managing all the moving pieces requires a well-built institutional technological infrastructure that can bear the load.
From Flyover Country to Talent Central: How Indiana is Leading the Pack Linking the Learn-And-Work Ecosystem
Ken Sauer | Senior Associate Commissioner and Chief Academic Officer, Indiana Commission of Higher Education Leighton Johnson, Jeff GrannOnce labeled as flyover country, South Bend, IN, is having quite the renaissance. The city and surrounding communities forming the South Bend-Elkhart Region were recently designated as a 21st Century…
The Promise of a Workforce Trifecta: An Innovative Way To Address the IT Professional Skills Gap
Edythe M. Abdullah | Dean of the Division of Continuing Education, University of North FloridaUniversity professional and continuing education divisions are committed to being responsive to workforce and economic development demands. Different from university colleges, continuing education divisions must be nimble as well as…
Robust Integrations: Uncorking Quality, Flexibility and Value
Ken Udas | Higher Education Itinerant & Adjunct Professor, University of Southern Queensland Scott SorleyThe Pressure to Integrate It is really no surprise that during the past decades colleges and universities have frequently found themselves under pressure to decrease their operating costs and increase…
Exorcizing Shadow Systems: What It Takes to Modernize University IT Operations
Rob Lowden | Associate Vice President of Enterprise Systems, Indiana UniversityLegacy systems are a reality for organizations of any size or magnitude. In the 1990’s, Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) software began entering into the workplace and replacing historical mainframe setups…
Robust Integrations Deliver Data Denouement to Higher Ed
Paige Francis | CIO and Vice President for IT, University of TulsaOne of my favorite words I recall using while completing my undergraduate program here with the University of Arkansas’s Fulbright College of Arts and Sciences was denouement. …
Small Colleges Grapple with the Future of Enterprise Technology
Marty Ringle | Chief Information Officer, Reed CollegeThirty years ago, small college technology officers faced a strategic question: Should they pursue a best-of-breed approach to administrative computing or would it make more sense to embrace an enterprise…
Central Governance in a Decentralized Environment
Sandy Nelson | Business Analyst and Team Lead in Academic Support Resources-IT, University of MinnesotaThe University of Minnesota offers a large array of non-credit and continuing education offerings across its colleges and divisions both on and off campus. But the colleges and divisions establish…