Track Presentations

"Realizing the Potential of Information Resources: Information, Technology, & Services"
New Orleans, Lousiana
November 28 - December 1, 1995

Tracks

Track 1

Strategic Planning
the importance of strategic planning for settling priorities and bringing order and a sense of direction to IT organizations; how to implement a strategic plan; getting others involved; aligning with institutional goals

Track 2

Policies and Standards
policies for successfully insulating institutions from potential liabilities while keeping higher education's traditional open exchange of ideas; policies and standards for ensuring compatibility, minimizing cost, and maximizing benefits; policy implications from expanded access to campus networks; using the IT infrastructure to disseminate and enforce standards and policies

Track 3

Serving Clients with Client/Server
making the transition to client/server technology--the rationale, the process, the results; IT as an agent of transition for changing institutional goals; enhancing work environments for students, faculty, and staff in a down-sized, higher-demand environment; new roles for client-serving technologies in flattened organizational structures on campus; reaching new constituencies; integrating resources; new dimensions for client/server technologies in the networked environment

Track 4

Rethinking User Services
maintaining a stable computing environment while responding to rapid technological change; balancing the support needs of early adopters, mainstream users, and latecomers; anticipating user needs; increasing effectiveness and efficiency of user support staff; shifting support resources from low-value to high-value activities; evolving support models; collaborating and cooperating with other groups on campus

Track 5

New Technologies
identifying the most useful new technologies for your campus; understanding how technologies advance and how they change the IT industry; structures and cultures for speeding the adoption and diffusion of new technologies; new technologies to change education institutions; how to fund advanced technologies; learning from other industries; working with IT partners; colleges and universities working together to reduce risks and increase benefits of new technologies

Track 6

Networking & Telecommunications
how these technologies help deliver higher education more effectively and/or efficiently; how they offer a better learning environment for students; critical management issues for institutions; managing the cultural and organizational changes resulting from networking technologies; evaluating effectiveness and added value for teaching and research; implications of the Internet for the future of colleges and universities

Track 7

Professional Development
keeping IT staff up-to-date and productive; supporting the cross-functional working arrangements resulting from collaborations with other campus groups; avoiding staff burn-out and high turnover of IT personnel; investing in people-ware; planning for professional development and resources when new systems and initiatives are pursued; upgrading policies and capital plans for staff

Track 8

Academic Computing & Libraries
leveraging campuswide computing and library resources in support of changing information environments; models for cooperative efforts and partnerships between academic computing organizations and libraries; working with talents, skills, and prejudices of each profession; restructuring service models; examples of successfully supporting research, teaching, and learning while linking content and delivery of scholarly information resources on campus