Financial Management

EDUCAUSE Library Items for Financial Management

Surveying the Landscape Cont'd: Tough Times and Hard Decisions: Thinking Strategically about IT

January 1, 2003

Information Technology strategy needs to be derived from institutional strategy and focused on what we do with it, not just what it is – focus on the value added, not just the sunk cost. In part…

Assessing Your Information Technology Needs

January 1, 2001

In response to a changing educational and technological environment, Chancellor John T. Montford began a strategic initiative to ensure that Texas Tech is positioned to take advantage of the opport…

Cost Accounting a Network--A Case Study

January 1, 1997

Many schools offer "no-cost" computing and many have established ways to charge back users for information technology services. Whether paid by individuals or budgeted at a central level,…

Forecasting Financial Priorities for Technology

January 1, 1996

At the end of the 1980s many colleges and universities developed financial models for technology based on then-current assumptions about student ownership of microcomputers, hardware life-cycles, m…

HEIRAlliance Executive Strategies Report #4: What Presidents Need to Know About the Payoff on the Information Technology Investment

January 1, 1994

This four-page report suggests approaches to the complex process of calculating cost/benefits of information technologies on campus -- particularly difficult for a resource as complex, pervasive,…

Strategies for Recovering the Costs of the Campus Data Network

January 1, 1993

Some institutions of higher education are attempting to manage and finance the growth of their data networks by charging end users and/or departments directly for services. This stands in contrast …

Strategic Planning and Budgeting for Information Technology

January 1, 1993

Stratgic planning can enable an institution to take advantage of new and different opportunities in the future while minimizing the negative impact of unexpected challenges along the way. In this t…

Making Decisions With Shrinking Resources

January 1, 1992

Information Services providing campus technology resources must operate with an understanding of the critical issues facing universities in the current decade. Alignment of decisions regarding prio…

Doing More With Less or Why Change if the Applications Work

January 1, 1992

While the impact of the economic downturn has hit institutions of higher education, the effect of it has been compounded on the University of Hartford because it is a relatively young, independent …

Cost Containment - Pushing Information Technology Through the Eye of the Needle

January 1, 1992

This presentation will describe the Administrative Services Cost Containment project that was initiated at Hunter College in March 1991 and is on-going today. This project's primary purpose is…