Economic Downturn

EDUCAUSE Library Items for Economic Downturn

Staying the Course: Online Education in the United States, 2008

November 20, 2008

This report is the sixth in a series of annual reports on a study conducted by the Babson Survey Research Group for the Sloan Consortium. Using responses from over 2,500 colleges and universities…

Managing the Funding Gap: How Today’s Economic Downturn Is Impacting IT Leaders and Their Organizations

January 20, 2009

The sharp decline in the global economy is driving institutions to significantly reduce expenditures and curtail investments. Institutions are cutting budgets deeply and across the board as they …

Manna From Heaven (er, Washington)

January 16, 2009

House economic stimulus package would provide as much as $20 billion for students, $8 billion for scientific research, $9 billion for academic facilities, and $39 billion for states to soften blo…

Internet Policy in a Time of Economic Uncertainty

January 16, 2009

© 2009 Tracy Mitrano. The text of this article is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 License ( http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/ …

With Budget Crunch Hitting IT, Time to Rethink Role?

December 11, 2008

Colleges’ information technology budgets aren’t immune to the economic downturn, and some CIOs see opportunity to streamline priorities and recast their mission. …

Podcast Interview: A. Michael Berman on Innovation and the Economic Realities of Higher Education

July 22, 2011

A. Michael Berman is Chief Information Officer for California State University, Channel Islands. In this interview with Colin Currie , Berman talks about creating and maintaining in…

Coping with Recession: Public Policy, Economic Downturns, and Higher Education

January 1, 2002

This essay is about recessions and the major policy considerations that states and institutions must face in the current economic downturn. Discussions center around the public policy implications …

E10 Session Podcast: Oil Spills, Volcanoes, and Higher Education — Leading in Strange Times

October 26, 2010

This session is presented by Cynthia Teniente-Matson , VP for Administration and Chief Financial Officer at California State University, Fresno. Every sector is impacted by the economic dow…

Doing More with Less: Obstacle or Opportunity for IT?

January 1, 2004

© 2004 Phil Goldstein, Lev S. Gonick, Darrel S. Huish, H. David Lambert, Lucinda T. Lea, William H. Pritchard, Frederick H. Siff, David L. Smallen, and Karin Steinbrenner EDUCAUSE Review, …

Capturing a University's Most Abundant Natural Resource in an Economic Downturn

January 1, 2004

In an era of shrinking budgets and growing enrollment, college and university staff should look to the talented pool of students around them. Student employees can effectively augment services pr…