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.
IT Alignment Helps Solve the Technology Investment Puzzle
Judith Pirani | Consultant, EDUCAUSEThe pressures facing today’s higher education institutions are well known and documented. We’ve all read about student success accountability, mounting financial and sustainability pressures, and changing student demographics. We also…
Sightings and Illusions: Looking Toward the Cloud
Colleen Carmean | Assistant Chancellor of Academic Affairs, University of Washington TacomaI've looked at clouds from both sides/ from up and down and still somehow The question of cloud-hosted applications still clearly continues to torment the stewards of technology in higher…
Next-Gen Institutional Management Systems: Empowering the Front Line and Evolving IT’s Role
Vi Bergquist | Chief Information Officer, St. Cloud Technical and Community CollegeColleges invest heavily in institutional management systems. Many of the aging institutional management systems are overly complex and expensive to maintain. Meanwhile, the higher education environment has changed markedly. Institutions…
Administrative System Customizations: A Hidden (and Avoidable) Cost of ERPs
Stephen Landry | Chief Information Officer, Seton Hall UniversityThe 2011 survey of college and university presidents conducted by Kenneth C. Green, founder of the Campus Computing Project, and Inside Higher Education found that fewer than half of college…
Taking the Lead: How IT Delivers the Experience Students Expect
Joanna Young | Vice President for IT and Chief Information Officer, Michigan State UniversityIf the past decade has taught higher education leaders anything, it is that they are no longer immune from transformations happening around them. The marketplace is more competitive. Students are…
Four Ways Institutional IT Creates Value for Students
Paige Francis | Associate Chief Information Officer, University of ArkansasHow can a university's IT department help to create ROI for students, especially when it comes to improving the student experience? Defining the value in higher education as a whole…
How SaaS IT Solutions Can Revolutionize the Research Space
Vas Vasiliadis | Director of Products, Communication and Development, University of ChicagoInformation technology (IT) presents new and promising opportunities to stakeholders across the higher education spectrum, regardless of their role. Partnering with vendors to introduce systems that create effective and efficient…