Budgets

EDUCAUSE Library Items for Budgets

Using BI to Identify Revenue and Resource Reallocation

March 18, 2013 | A session at the Midwest Regional Conference

Like most institutions of higher education, Miami University is facing increasing financial pressures and demands. Miami University has decided to develop a new budget model that will result in the…

NSF-Sponsored Workshop Report: Sustainable Funding and Business Models for Academic Cyberinfrastructure Facilities

November 18, 2010

This report summarizes the observations and recommendations from the National Science Foundation-sponsored workshop of the same title. Workshop papers submitted discuss the challenges faced in …

A Systemic Model for IT Economic Sustainability

January 12, 2010

This ECAR research bulletin explores the options available to IT leaders in higher education to reduce costs associated with technology expenditures at their institutions. It lays out a framewor…

Rationalizing IT Rationing: 10 Ways to Cut the IT Budget (and What Not to Cut)

July 30, 2009

Key Takeaways Budget pressures on higher education affect IT departments, but cuts in IT should not be across the board — they should align with institutional and departmental strategic p…

CFOs Talk about Finances: Glimmers of Hope

July 30, 2009

© 2009 Laurie G. Antolovic, Albert G. Horvath, and Margaret F. Plympton EDUCAUSE Review , vol. 44, no. 4 (July/August 2009): 36–43 Laurie G. Antolovic is Deputy CIO and IT Chief Fi…

Defending the IT Budget

June 2, 2009 | A session at the EDUCAUSE Southeast Regional Conference 2009

“IT is just a budgetary black hole,” “IT only does what it wants to do,” and “Times are tough—do more with less!” Do these comments sound familiar? If so, come hear how Georgia State's…

Using Nontraditional Security Risk Assessments to Measure Risk, Request Budgets, and Illustrate Trends

May 6, 2008 | A session at the Security 2008

Learn how Weill Cornell Medical College employs a nontraditional risk management methodology to accurately measure risk, build compelling and successful budget requests, and graphically illustrate …

So, What Does IT Cost?

August 1, 2006

In 2004, MIT and Stanford University began the Total Cost of IT project to measure, or at least estimate, the total cost of IT at those two institutions. This bulletin describes the project costi…

Chargebacks and Information Technology Funding

November 8, 2005

This research bulletin, which draws on research conducted by ECAR in 2004 on the state of information technology funding, examines how higher education uses chargebacks for funding IT. It is base…