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Saturday, June 04, 2011

May/June 2011 EDUCAUSE Review Now Available Online

Just look at this interesting line-up in this EDUCAUSE Review, May/June 2011, Volume 46, Number 3.


Why IT Matters to Higher Education 
Diana G. Oblinger (doblinger@educause.edu), President and CEO of EDUCAUSE writes, "Just about every activity at every college and university, along with its underlying infrastructure, is being challenged. How can we meet these deeper challenges?

Those of us in higher education know well many of the challenges of information technology. The EDUCAUSE 2011 Current Issues Survey, which highlights the most important technology issues in higher education, reveals that IT leaders ranked "Funding IT" as the #1 issue critical for the strategic success of their institutions, confirming much of what we might already suspect. The EDUCAUSE survey also aligns strongly with the "Top 10" issues of the Council of Australian University Directors of Information Technology (http://www.caudit.edu.au/index.php/news/?id=98)."

Leading the Higher Education IT Organization: Six Building Blocks of Success
By Stephen J. Laster    
To succeed tomorrow, IT leaders today need to address several core technology issues and challenges. Together, these issues constitute six building blocks that can form a new pyramid, one leading ultimately to higher education IT value.  

Top-Ten IT Issues, 2011
By Bret L. Ingerman, Catherine Yang, and the 2011 EDUCAUSE Current Issues Committee  
EDUCAUSE presents the top-ten IT-related issues in terms of strategic importance to the institution, as revealed by the twelfth annual EDUCAUSE Current Issues Survey. 

Collaboration for a Positive-Sum Outcome: An Interview with Ira H. Fuchs
By Christopher J. Mackie 
"In a world where so many budget choices reduce to zero-sum or even negative-sum, multi-institutional collaboration is one of the few options that allow the possibility of a significantly positive-sum outcome."  

Source: EDUCAUSE Review