Executive Leadership Seminar

The Executive Leadership Seminar is full.  To be placed on a wait list, please contact EDUCAUSE Member Services at (303) 449-4430 or info@educause.edu.

Agenda

This seminar begins Friday, August 3, at 5:30 p.m. and ends Sunday, August 5, at 12:30 p.m. (Please note that the opening session is a valuable element of the program, and is essential to attend.)

Participants are encouraged to attend the main SAC event, the Directors Leadership Seminar, immediately following the Executive Leadership Seminar.

You can view the full seminar agenda, detailed program information, or follow the links below for schedule information for specific dates.

• Friday schedule (Full details)
• Saturday schedule (Full details)
• Sunday schedule (Full details)

Also available is a complete listing of speakers, and links to their sessions. Speakers now have the ability to upload session materials. Click here to view a list of sessions with available resources.

Who Should Attend?

The Executive Leadership Seminar offers senior IT leaders, academic executives, library directors, presidents, and other higher education executives an opportunity to collaboratively explore and discuss the challenges currently facing IT in higher education. Interaction among the participants and seminar leaders occurs in a small and intimate setting, preceding a larger and broader meeting of higher education IT professionals.

Approach

Shrinking budgets and increasing demands continue to challenge higher education as technology constantly changes the way we work. IT leadership must act strategically in order to maintain and improve the services and support delivered to faculty, students, and staff.

The title of this year's SAC seminars is "Realizing Strategic Integration: Information, Technology, and the Academy." This year's Executive Leadership Seminar will build on this theme and include faculty with roles such as president, policy officer, CFO, and CIO. Participants will engage with the faculty in debate and dialogue, culminating in a small group problem-solving exercise designed to identify practical strategies to implement at home institutions.

Participants in the Executive Leadership Seminar are also encouraged to attend this year's Directors Leadership Seminar, immediately following the Executive Leadership Seminar, where provocative speakers will spark discussion and encourage higher education IT leaders to take part in highly interactive conference sessions.

Preconference Requests

Before the seminar, participants will be contacted by e-mail and asked to respond to a set of questions regarding issues at their institutions and their expectations for the seminar. The answers will be sent to the program chairs and speakers to assist them with final agenda session planning.

Executive Leadership Seminar Chairs

Tracy Mitrano
Director of IT Policy and Computer Policy and Law Program
Cornell University

Vijay K. Verma
Vice Chancellor for Information Technology & Chief Information Officer
North Carolina A&T State University