Decentralization in a Centralized IT Environment

This presentation will review IUP's journey to build an IT infrastructure that takes advantage of decentralized expertise while maintaining a core centralized IT environment. This environment allows us to address the dramatic and continuing increase in demand for emerging IT in higher education. The central IT organization can focus on the expansion of mission while increasing decentralized expertise in the functional areas of the organization. Other institutions may want to consider how we developed this infrastructure to create a best-practice deployment in preparing for emerging IT trends in higher education.