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EDUCAUSE Library Items for Financial Planning
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Are Arms Races in Higher Education a Problem?
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January 1, 2004
Economic reward for elite educational credentials has jumped sharply in recent decades leading to a variety of positional arms races that have increased costs sharply and threatened the continued v…
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Assessing Your Fiscal Bandwidth: Current Practices for Measuring IT Costs in Higher Education
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May 14, 2013
Accurately and consistently measuring the cost of IT in higher education is an essential part of strategic IT management, yet according to IT leaders, cost data have proven elusive. What if a…
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Bridging the GAP: Unified Approaches to Governance, Architecture, and Procurement
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December 8, 2005
Presentation at the December 2005 ECAR Symposium in Carefree, Arizona. This presentation identifies a set of principles covering information technology governance, architecture, and procurement (…
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Bringing Business Analytics to the College Campus:Using Fiscal Metrics to Steer Innovation in Postsecondary Educations
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September 19, 2011
This Center for American Progress and Delta Project report provides an overview of how business analytics could be used to improve the return on investment in higher education instruction. …
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Bucking Conventional Wisdom on College Costs
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July 20, 2009
Myths about higher education, believed inside and outside academe, hinder efforts to make key decisions, write Dennis Jones and Jane Wellman. Myt…
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Build Your Boat Before the Flood: Contigency Planning in Higher Education
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January 1, 2002
In the current economic environment, the need for contingency planning is clear. Craig Aase and Gary Krueger began todevelop a financial crisis plan for Macalester College inthe summer of 2000, wel…
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CFOs Talk about Finances: Glimmers of Hope
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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…
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CITES Annual Report, 2012
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March 1, 2011
This report will comment on the overall state of IT at the University of Illinois (that is, the state of IT resources campus-wide) as well as on the current state of the CITES organization and pr…
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Collaborative Development of Key Performance Indicators
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September 27, 2011
Key Takeaways Budget cuts and increasing enrollments , coupled with legislative mandates that base funding allocations on student outcomes rather than headcount, are forcing the …
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Common Enterprise Applications for the University of Wisconsin System
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June 24, 2011
Key Takeaways System-wide governance , a project management office, a 10-year roadmap , and a rigorous budget process have been critical to the success of common enterpr…




















