Contributing Editors: Veronica Diaz, Director, Professional Learning, EDUCAUSE, and Ryan MacTaggart, Manager, Professional Learning, EDUCAUSE
The temporary shift to a remote IT workforce has evolved into permanent hybrid teams for many colleges and universities. Leaders can become more effective in this new normal by leveraging the EDUCAUSE Digital Transformation (Dx) framework as a roadmap to transform their leadership approach and make the most of this new way of working.
Although decisions can often be made more easily in echo chambers, leaders should learn how to break out of their comfort zones of agreement in order to make better decisions.
Being a mentor is incredibly rewarding. The following tips can help current and prospective mentors get the most out of the experience.
Digital transformation is an organizational change process that demands a unique vision, perspective, and set of leadership skills.
Higher education IT professionals can successfully advance their careers without moving to another college or university. The author shares the lessons he learned during his thirty-three-year journey from IT student employee to CIO at the same higher education institution. These tips are helpful regardless of whether someone chooses to stay at one location or move around.
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EDUCAUSE recommends a "What, So What, and Now What" approach to help build and support a more proactive orientation to the future of higher education.
The EDUCAUSE 2022 Top 10 IT Issues list was recently published. We asked several of the panelists to talk about how the top three issues on the list might transform higher education.
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John O'Brien, EDUCAUSE CEO and President, welcomes two of the 2022 Top 10 IT Issues panelists: Bella Abrams, Director of IT for the University of Sheffield, and Phil Ventimiglia, Chief Innovation Officer for the Georgia State University, about the increasing relevance of the Chief Information Security Officer role.
With a glimmer of pre-pandemic "normalcy" returning, how can the higher education IT community continue to combat burnout and prevent it from taking control in the future?
The EDUCAUSE 2022 Top 10 IT Issues take an optimistic view of how technology can help make the higher education we deserve—through a shared transformational vision and strategy for the institution, a recognition of the need to place students’ success at the center, and a sustainable business model that has redefined "the campus."
