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Friends,
Does anyone have a questionnaire that they use for 360 evaluations. These evaluations would be done by:
1) Manager’s staff
2) Manager’s primary users
3) Significant administrators.
Thanks
DP Harris, Phd—Vice President
LOMA LINDA UNIVERSITY | Information Services
11139 Anderson Street, Loma Linda, California 92350
(909) 558-7600
...Pardon me if this has already been asked…
I’m curious if other colleges and universities grant admin access to desktop or laptops owned and managed by the college and used by faculty or staff. We currently install whatever they need for them and maintain an inventory of all software installed. We track licensing etc. We are hesitant to give people admin access to their machines, but more and more they want to be able to do installations to demo products, get updates that we may not have installed yet, etc.
Just wondering if we’re being overly restrictive.
Thanks for your feedback, Dennis
Colleagues, before we all get caught up in the end of the semester workload and the holidays I wanted to remind you that the Frye Leadership Institute http://www.fryeinstitute.org is now accepting applications for its 2012 session, to be held June 3–8 in Washington, D.C. Note the new location and the new opportunities that come with it!
Applications are due by 5:00 p.m. EST on Friday, December 16, 2011. Take this opportunity to assist yourself or your staff with this critical professional development event.
Established in 2000, the Frye Leadership Institute is the premier senior leadership development experience for CIOs, librarians, information technology professionals, and administrators in higher education.
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Dear Colleagues,
Educause, through the Higher Education Information Security Council, is joining with the ACM to the share the following info about Computer Science Education Week. They are hoping to log at least 3500 “pledges” by the end of this week.
Larry Conrad
UNC Chapel Hill
Computer Science Education Week (CSEdWeek)—December 4-10, 2011—is a call to action to share information and offer activities that will advocate for computing and elevate computer science education for students at all levels. EDUCAUSE is supporting CSEdWeek because computer science is an important part of IT, the mechanism our community uses to support the...
Colleagues,
Our college librarian wants to implement a library privacy policy which covers the use of library computers. I believe it’s directly contradictory to most institutions’ AUPs (we have an old one, but I’ve been looking at others to re-write ours).
Here’s the proposed text of the library privacy policy (highlights by me):
In accordance with common standards of privacy, the Code of Ethics of the American Library Association, and the California Government Code (Sections 6267 and 6254), we recognize that the library records of Menlo College students, faculty, staff, and other library patrons are confidential. These records include, but are not limited to, circulation records, interlibrary loan records, and information stored by patrons on the Library's computers....
Hello everyone – I’m looking for a database driven content management system and my team has been doing some research but can’t find anything that currently comes close to our needs… The following is a basic overview of what we’re looking for. If you know of any software that comes close to these specs I would really appreciate your feedback. Thanks in advance for the help. Ed.
Summary
Rio Salado is looking for a learning content management system (LCMS) to improve the online content development process, store reusable content, provide more tools to assess learning, and facilitate customized learning and presentation options.
The LCMS will be become an integrated...
We have a group of entrepreneurial students who want to start a recording agency on campus that will handle the recording of songs, distribution of physical and online sales, event promotion, booking and artist representation. They plan to work only with Elon University artist. My question is: does anyone already have published guidelines at their university for such groups?
Some of the things I would like to know are:
· what the process for moving forward with these sorts of things is,
· what their responsibilities are,
· who is...
All,
We're evaluating some options for the processing of online and card-present credit card payments. We use TouchNet's Marketplace/Payment Gateway for our online giving and more static ecommerce functions. Our campus is starting to ask for additional options like PayPal, Google Checkout, or Square.com for sporadic event-based payment activities.
Before we proceed, we're curious how other institutions handle the setup of ecommerce and card-present credit card transactions using either PayPal, Google, or Square. Do you have a central service or do departments set up their own mechanisms, or both? If so, how is it working for you? We're particularly interested in the financial back end: does each department set up their own bank account or does the institution use a single bank account for this activity, and how...
All,
We are having to rewrite our IT policies and it is one of those things that keep getting pushed back because of other priorities. I have decided unless, someone from outside of our IT shop work on it, it will never get done. I am curious if you know of anyone who may be able to help us with this as a contractor. Please send me your recommendation.
Your help is greatly appreciated
Thank you
Spalding
All,
We are planning to build a new building with quite a few classrooms and we would like to take this opportunity to see to review our classroom design (layout, furniture, technology). We would like to engage one or two consultant in the review process. Do you have any recommendation?
Your help is greatly appreciated
Thank you
Spalding
As requested, I am sending the summary of responses for my questions on Web Content Management Systems. Thanks for the input!
Kay Rhodes
Dear All,
California Northstate College of pharmacy is looking for a ERP solution. In this connection, we are conducting a survey in order to understand the your experiences working with the ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning) solutions. Your input in this regard will be helpful in identifying an appropriate ERP solution for our College. Below is a link to a survey that will allow you to give us the feedback. The survey is very brief and will only take a moment to complete. http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/PYMS22X
Thank you in advance for taking the time to answer the questions.
Best Regards,
Vinuthna Vattikonda, MSE
IT Administrator
Tel: (916) 631-8108 X 224
Fax: 916-631-8127
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Hi Everyone,
I am Richard Bazile moderator of the Diversity in IT listserv for Educause (www.educause.edu/cg/itdiversity).
We would appreciate if could help us out by filling out a VERY short survey on Diversity in IT. We are not seeking institutional information just some numbers on your IT departments size and diversity. The survey link is here http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/higheredITdiversity
Thank you in advance for taking the time to answer the questions. I will send back the results to the group after the holidays.
Have a great Holiday!
Richard J....
To my friends and colleagues on the CIO list, wishing you and your families, near and far, a happy, safe and peaceful Thanksgiving.
Dr. Robert Paterson
Vice President, Information Technology, Planning & Research
Molloy College
Rockville Centre, NY 11571
516-678-5000 ex 6443
Many institutions have already used information technology to achieve efficiencies. But "transformation" is a word du jour. Information technology allied with process reengineering and continuous improvement is the pathway to transformation. All aspects of higher education are being transformed, including teaching and learning, scholarship, research, institutional advancement, admissions, and administrative services. Information technology is never sufficient, but is almost always necessary, for those transformations to have both efficient and effective outcomes.
__________
We seemed to struggle a bit with that word "transforming" and what it means in...
EDUCAUSE recently posted Understanding and Managing the Risks of Analytics in Higher Education: A Guide (http://www.educause.edu/library/resources/understanding-and-managing-risks-analytics-higher-education-guide), which was developed for the community by Randy Stiles.
Currently a member of the EDUCAUSE Board of Directors, Stiles serves Colorado College as Special Advisor to the President for Business Analytics, having previously led the institution’s IT and institutional research operations for roughly eight years. This scope of responsibilities allowed him to approach the management of institutional risk in relation to analytics from multiple perspectives, leading to a resource that provides a comprehensive overview of what...
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Colleagues,
As we review the Educause Top-Ten IT Issues of 2012, we've engaged and discussed governance and analytics, and the topic of analytics will likely be one we visit throughout our discussion. I'd like to draw your attention to this event:
Presidents, provosts, trustees, students and the federal government are looking to us to solve complex problems through data. Analytics is ranked as one of the Top-Ten IT Issues of 2012.
While this may not be a novel topic to IT, there is still a lot to learn. Analytics can be used to address accountability, affordability, efficiency, competitiveness, and student success—but how and where do we get started?
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Colleagues,
Bucknell University is seeking presenters and participants for a fall 2012 conference, GIS & Spatial Thinking in the Undergraduate Curriculum
We are considering outsourcing our Help Desk for students (covering our LMS, MS Office, password resets, student e-mail, electronic library, etc.), especially as we do more online courses. For those of you who have considered or successfully executed a similar undertaking, are there any key insights you would suggest that we keep in mind or put into the contract?
Thanks much. Greg.
Greg Kozak
VP, Information Technology
Lake Forest Graduate School of Management · 1905 W. Field Court · Lake Forest, IL 60045
847.574.5194 (direct) · 847.707.0712 (cell) · 847.234.5005 (main)
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Our On-Line Communications team is looking for a full service managed web hosting partner for hosting our main .edu site and I am seriously considering The Servint Corporation http://www.servint.net/ .
Interested in feedback from anyone who has used their services and/or other options to consider. Please feel free to respond on or off list.
thanks
Laura Seraichick, Chief Information Officer
Keene State College
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Greetings All:
I am interested in learning about experiences you may have had pertaining to the centralization of network operations/control/policy at the statewide level for colleges and universities. I am also interested in cost-benefit methodologies, results, surprises, etc. relating to such projects. If your institution has experienced such a change recently I would really like to hear about the effects on academics and administrative functions. Thanks for your help.
Barry Grant - Director of Information Technology
Manchester Community College (L204-F)
Great Path (Mishi-maya-gat) MS #3 PO Box 1046
Manchester, CT 06045-1046
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I’m re-writing a job description for our in-house Infrastructure Engineer. This includes maintaining the integrity of our fiber optic and Ethernet plant. It also includes using test equipment and the use of troubleshooting tools, like WireShark.
If you have a position similar to this, would you mind sharing your job description.
As always, thank you for your help.
Russ
Gordon College
Wenham, MA
The University of South Carolina (USC) central IT organization is in the process of implementing Resource Management and is seeking dialogue with colleagues who use EPM Live products for resource, project management and portfolio management. If someone from your University has any experience with these resources, we would be interested in an exchange of experiences and advice. Please contact Betty Hawkins, Resource Manager for USC-University Technology Services @ 803-777-3012 or bhawkins@sc.edu to discuss this topic in further detail. Your thoughts and insights appreciated.
Jeff Farnham
Associate VP for Information Technology and Deputy CIO
University of South Carolina
1244 Blossom Street
Columbia SC 29208
...Hi all –
Those of you subscribed to the digest have undoubtedly noticed that listserv digests haven't been functioning correctly, even after we thought we had it nailed on Saturday. Since then, we've been working with our listserv vendor to identify the problem and we have made some more adjustments that we believe will fix the issue, for real this time.
I have switched my CIO listserv subscription to digest and will be monitoring this very carefully to ensure that it does work correctly from here on out. Thanks for your patience and understanding – switching systems is always entertaining, huh? Please feel free to contact me directly if you have any further issues: rgranger@educause.edu.
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