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This EDUCAUSE constituent group is designed for discussion of issues and challenges that affect chief information officers in higher education: the role of the CIO, financing and funding strategies, planning and organizing for information resources (especially information technology) within the institution, human resource issues, policies for the networked information environment, and the future of higher education. This group meets at the EDUCAUSE annual conference and uses the electronic discussion list to discuss issues throughout the year.
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Is anyone using a product such as BOARDVantage or a similar product for their Board?
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Keith W. McIntosh, MBA
Vice Chancellor for Information Technology
and Chief Information Officer (CIO)
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Information Technology
Pima County Community College District
kwmcintosh@pima.edu
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Colleagues and Friends,
Our library has a collection of locally produced 16mm movies. We would like to get these into digital format?
Does anyone know of equipment that we can purchase to do this? Otherwise, is there a service which you have found helpful?
Thank you and Season’s Blessings.
DP Harris, Phd—Vice President/CIO
LOMA LINDA UNIVERSITY | Information Services
11139 Anderson Street, Loma Linda, California 92350
(909) 558-7600
Meeting Room: http...
Good morning,
We allow students to retain their college email address after graduating. It helps to stay in touch with them after they leave the campus. However, we are starting to see more duplications occur because our email address standard is the first initial and last name. Our email administrator is very creative, but as our student base continues to grow over time it will become a bigger issue.
What format do you use for student email addresses?
Please share how your institution manages around duplicate student email addresses if you use first initial and last name?
Is anyone using the student ID number as their student email address?
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Colleagues:
The University of South Carolina is considering a change to our Telco/Network cost recovery model which has traditionally been tied to Telco use only. We all know this “land-line” based model is diminishing, and that the growing technology model is converging towards a network only model. I would appreciate anyone sharing what model (Best Practice) you use if different from the traditional “pay for actual usage” model.
Our goal is to create a simple model which is easy to administer, easy to understand, and yet is sustainable as growth and demand dictates. Your insights and experiences appreciated.
Much thanks,
Jeff Farnham
Deputy CIO and Associate VP for Information Technology
University of South Carolina
1244 Blossom...
All,
We are looking at Bb Analytics as a possible reporting solution for Campus Solutions and Finance. I am looking for comparable products. The key value in BB Analytics seems to be that the data model for the PeopleSoft products comes largely delivered. Are there other products that come this “ready to run”.
Thanks
Jerry
Jerome F. Waldron, CIO
The College of New Jersey
609-771-3494
waldronj@tcnj.edu
freshmantech.blogspot.com
Good morning!
Does anyone have any experience with Faculty Workload software? What are the top two or three in the industry and do you know if they integrate with Banner? Have any of you considered developing your own? Would you recommend for or against in-house development? For those with Banner experience, would you recommend the Banner product?
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Keith W. McIntosh, MBA
Vice Chancellor for Information Technology
and Chief Information Officer (CIO)
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Information Technology
Pima County Community College District
kwmcintosh@pima....
I have only recently joined this group, so I am responding quite late. We use Finish Line from Jenzabar. It has 2 components:
1. A convenient way for faculty or staff to notify our Director of Retention of a student perceived to be a retention risk
2. A set of customizable analytics that provides our Director of Retention with an on-demand look at students in red (high risk), yellow (moderate risk), and green (little or no risk) categories
We are very happy with it and are most happy about the fact that, since implementation, we are talking with many more students.
My understanding is that they are currently doing some integration with other systems such as Banner and...
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Good afternoon all,
I realize that similar questions have been posted before, but this time I’ll seeking help from colleges and universities with less than 5,000 FTE. We’re trying to see if we are “right sized” with respect to others in terms of support staff for technology. If you’d respond I’d greatly appreciate it and I’d be happy to post a summary of the responses. Please indicate the number of full time (include part time help as a decimal equivalent of a full timer based on the number hours per week they work). DO NOT include student workers in any area other than “Student Workers” even if they help to support the other specific areas.
Approximate FTE of the student population:
...Hi Everyone,
I have a quick question,…How many are using thin clients (WYSE terminals) on the desktops? I am not referring to lab uses or onetime setups for registration. But, rather on your (president, vp, dean) desktop as the main machine you use. If you decided against this could you please share?
Thanks a mil,
Richard J. Bazile
Dean, Learning Resources-College of Central Florida
3001 SW College Road
Ocala, FL 34474-4415
Phone: 352-873-5805 x1347
www.educause.edu/cg/itdiversity
http://about.me/richardbazile
Greetings! I’d like to hear from any colleges/universities who have chosen commercial colocation for their primary data center (or components of that data center), and what challenges/advantages you’ve experienced. Many thanks.
Linda
Linda D. Hilton, Chief Information Officer
Vermont State Colleges
802.626.6394/802.241.3148
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I’m in the process of conducting an IT Assessment for a multi-campus community college district. We have typically been soloed regarding IT organizational structures, decision making and governance. We are focused on a centralized model to improve efficiency, effectiveness and collaboration.
If anyone can provide me with examples of governance structures, IT organizational structures and/or articles that would be very helpful.
Dick Hol
District Director of Information Systems
Community Colleges of Spokane
2000 N. Greene St.
Spokane WA 99217
Phone: (509) 533-8018
Fax: (509) 533-7412...
Is anyone using Bacula as your hard drive based back-up system and if so how do you like it?
David Carson ...
Colleagues,
I am in the process of developing a hardware and software refresh policy. It would be helpful to see what others are doing in this area so if you have one you can share please do.
If I missed a prior posting please point me in the right direction.
Thanks,
Anita L. Brown
ITS Operations Manager
St. John's College
P.O. Box 2800
Annapolis, MD 21404-2800
410-626-2508
We are in the process of identifying and laying out funding for a disaster recovery site outside of the east coast corridor. Does anyone currently deploy a hot or warm site for your school and if so, what vendor did you select and are you happy with their performance so far?
Also, does anyone use SunGard Availability Services for disaster recovery? I would be very interested in discussing the successes and/or failures in using them. We are a Banner school and the obvious integration with SunGard would be an added benefit for us.
Thanks and Best Regards,
Bill Hobbs
Director, Networks and Operations
Department of Information Technology
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Hi all,
I feel so embarrassed to ask this. I’m looking for a list of questions that you may have asked of your faculty regarding technology.
This request came from a faculty committee that wishes to survey the entire faculty. They are unable to articulate a goal or objective for the survey. I think they are interested to find out what faculty members think that they want or need to improve their ability to teach, whether it’s in the classroom or helping them prepare. Pretty vague – I know. Sorry!
Dennis Thibeault
CIO, Curry College
The Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center is about to begin looking at web content management systems to deploy for use throughout our institution and its campuses. As part of our pre-planning, we would like to solicit feedback from other institutions about the systems they have implemented to manage their web content. If possible, please take a few minutes to answer the following questions. Please respond to kay.rhodes@ttu.edu. I’ll be glad to summarize results to the list, if there is interest.
1. What vendor or open source Web Content Management System (WCMS) have you implemented at your institution?
2. Are you satisfied with the WCMS you have implemented or are you looking to replace it in the future?
...We are having a presidential forum and we would like attendee’s to submit questions via their handheld or tablet (IPAD or Android).
Ideally, they could text a number , then the President could receive them on his IPAD.
Anyone do this already and have a solution?
Best,
Russ
Beth,
One concern with not providing an email account is the possibility that the university could get blacklisted. With the number of emails this University sends out to students, we’ve actually been blacklisted by mail providers that students forward to (and we do provide email accounts to students, but allow forwarding as well). I’m curious if David has run into this. By providing an email account, we work with the mail provider to ensure university messages do not get blacklisted to the university sponsored mail provider.
Best,
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Ric Simmons
Louisiana State University
Deputy CIO and Executive Director
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I know that this is more of a regulatory safety issue, however since most of you are probably managing the PBX or IP Telephony, I am certain you have been involved in the discussion. Our routing of 911 requires that the user dial 9-911 to get connected to the local emergency services. This is a recent change where previously users were able to dial either 9-911 or 911.
Does your PBX routing allow for 911 to be dialed directly or does the routing require dialing 9-911?
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Does your institution have a requirement to have a sign posted indicating that one must dial 9-911 for emergency, if the extra 9 is...
Good Morning Fellow Colleagues,
I’ve been asked to direct a group of individuals from multiple disciplines, primarily from the administrative side of the house, to perform some analysis of some of our weaker, less efficient workflows. This “swat” team will interview, watch people work, and really try to understand the current workflow (initially without any preconceived solution in mind) and then work to make things better (some solutions may be IT – software/hardware/technology-related - some may not).
Has anyone directed this type of committee? If so, any suggestions? I realize there’s not much to go on here. But, for example, some...
Tunde,
At the University of Wisconsin–Superior we use Atomic Learning and have had good experience with it. We were able to integrate authentication through Active Directory. The product allows searches for a particular need, or specific beginner-advanced workshops on a large list of applications. You can also develop and add in your own content as well, for an additional cost. We use that feature for campus training on our Desire2Learn LMS for faculty.
http://www.atomiclearning.com/highed
Thanks,
Joe
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