The EDUCAUSE Audience

From across the country to around the world, EDUCAUSE members and conference attendees are responsible for planning, implementing, and managing information resources and technology at their institutions. The majority of EDUCAUSE attendees are also EDUCAUSE members. The current membership comprises more than 2,000 colleges, universities, and educational organizations, including 200 corporations, with 15,000 active members. And those are just our members and member representatives. Through e–mail and publications, EDUCAUSE consistently reaches more than 18,000 with information regarding our professional development activities.

Senior IT staff, support IT staff, academic officers, CIO's, deans, senior librarians and librarians, presidents and chancellors, support staff, and faculty make up the majority of all EDUCAUSE conferences.

Reaching the Decision Makers...

By and large, those who attend the EDUCAUSE conferences are also those who make the critical technology decisions for their institutions. Collectively, EDUCAUSE member institutions spend millions of dollars each year on technology and IT services. The conferences provide an avenue to collaborate with peers, in order to keep up with the challenge of fully leveraging the significant investment their campuses make to support the growing information technology needs of staff, faculty, and students, while positioning their institutions for the future.

...and the Support Staff

At every institution the support staff play an integral role in helping the decision makers and in influencing the purchase of IT products and services. As our membership and conference profile shows, support staff also play a critical role as member representatives and attendees. Development project managers, as well as the users in the administrative offices, such as financial, registrar, and admissions are also in attendance, and have great impact on technology purchases within their campuses.