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What's Next for Campus Cyberinfrastructure? ACTI Responds to the NSF ACCI Reports: July 16, 2012

In February 2009, a joint workshop of the EDUCAUSE Advanced Core Technologies Initiative Campus Cyberinfrastructure Working Group (ACTI-CCI) and the Coalition for Academic Scientific Computation …
Networking, Telephony, and USF Patterns in Higher Education: A Sample Snapshot: July 3, 2012

The Federal Communications Commission recently opened a proceeding to consider how to reform its collection of fees for the Universal Service Fund and may reach a decision in this matter late…
Identifying E-Portfolio Practices at AAU Universities: June 14, 2012

Beginning in July and ending in December 2011, the Center for Instructional Development and Distance Education at the University of Pittsburgh developed and administered a survey designed to gaug…
2012 ECAR Study of Analytics in Higher Education: June 15, 2012

Key Findings Analytics is widely viewed as important, but data use at most institutions is still limited to reporting. Analytics programs are most successful when various constituents�…
Supporting Research through the Development of a Data Management Plan Service: November 8, 2012 | A session at the EDUCAUSE Annual Conference 2012
Campuses are keenly aware of the need to adequately provide support services for research activities at all stages of development. This session will discuss how campuses can realign to support rese…
The Chief Information Officer in Higher Education, 2012 Reports: June 18, 2012

This study provides information about higher education CIOs’ attributes, education, experience, and effectiveness and about the technology professionals who are likely to replace these CIOs…
Information Technology Services in Community Colleges: Strengths, Opportunities, and Challenges: July 17, 2012

This report is the product of a secondary analysis of the EDUCAUSE 2011 Core Data Service survey and the 2011 ECAR National Study of Undergraduate Students and Information Technology . Data fr…
Software-as-a-Service Email Security: Risk vs. Trust: May 31, 2012

Many organizations would be interested in treating e-mail as a commodity —cutting costs and resource investments by outsourcing it to a software as a service (SaaS) provider. However, …
The Importance of Doing Enterprise (and Infrastructure): October 17, 2012

...as Oscar Wilde well might have titled an essay about campus-wide IT, had there been such a thing back then. Enterprise IT it accounts for the lion's share of campus IT staffing, expenditu…
A Dozen Gurus Describe IT Collaborations That Work: May 22, 2012

What factors are most important when evaluating a specific IT collaboration? To answer this question, the authors asked an experienced group of IT leaders to analyze collaborations with w…