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Higher education's purpose is to equip students for success in life -- in the workplace, in communities, and their personal lives. While this purpose may have remained constant for centuries, the world around colleges and universities is undergoing significant change. Higher education is under pressure to meet greater expectations, whether for student numbers, educational preparation, workforce needs, or economic development. Meanwhile, the resources available are likely to decline. New models, an intense focus on the student experience, and a drive for innovation and entrepreneurism will ensure that higher education continues to meet society's needs. Information technology supports virtually every aspect of higher education, including finances, learning, research, security, and sustainability, and IT professionals need to understand the range of problems their institutions face so they apply IT where it brings greatest value. Creating this future will require collaboration across organizational and national boundaries, bringing together the collective intelligence of people from backgrounds including education, corporations, and government.

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  • IT-Based Transformation in Higher Education: Possibilities and Prospects, Greg Jackson, EDUCAUSE, March 2012. A Discussion of how achieving both greater efficiency and better outcomes in higher education through information technology requires a commitment to fundamental, unfettered thinking about the future both within and outside current institutions—the kind of process many institutions are beginning to undertake.
  • Rethinking Higher Education Business Models, Robert Sheets, Stephen Crawford,and Louis Soares. Center for American Progress. March 2012.
  • Innovating the 21st-Century University: It’s Time!, EDUCAUSE Review, Volume 45, Number 1, 2010. If colleges and universities open up and embrace collaborative learning and collaborative knowledge production, they have a chance of surviving and even thriving in the networked, global economy of the future.
  • The Changing Landscape of Higher Education, EDUCAUSE Review, Volume 46, Number 1, 2011. Focusing strictly on technology trends can obscure other environmental factors that are drivers for innovation in higher education. The authors identify ten fissures in the landscape that are creating areas of potentially tectonic change.

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As the Future Catches You - Sponsored by NetApp, Silver Partner
March 26, 2012 | A session at the EDUCAUSE Midwest Regional Conference 2012

The best way to predict the future is to invent it. Join us for an exciting "travelogue" into the future of higher education by exploring the key challenges in the coming decade. Powerf…

Imagining the Future of Higher Education
December 15, 2011

Imagine a student heading to college in 2022. How will her campus experience differ from ours? What changes has digital technology made? I have been exploring those questions in this space for…
The 2020+ Project: Using WordPress to Organize, Evaluate, and Discuss the College of the Future
March 13, 2012 | A session at the NERCOMP Annual Conference 2012

The provost of Providence College asked the Library+Commons to compile scholarly materials on the future of higher education in order for the Academic Affairs Committee to prepare for the college o…

Bob Heterick Memorial Lecture - If Not Now, When?
February 13, 2012 | A session at the EDUCAUSE Learning Initiative 2012 Annual Meeting

The challenges facing American education are formidable and seem to call for change more radical than incremental. For more than two decades technology has been "on the verge" of transfor…

Future of Higher Education
September 27, 2011

"Collaboration 1.0 was Lotus Notes and the Web. Then we got wikis. All are mediated by a document. We capture ideas in a document. But today's consumer experience with collaboration i…
Connecting the Dots to the Future of Technology in Higher Education
July 21, 2011

Stephen diFilipo ( sdifilipo@cecil.edu ) is Vice President and Chief Information Officer at Cecil College. Comments on this article can be posted to the web via the link at the bot…
Shared Services and Partnerships: The Keys to the Future of Higher Education
July 21, 2011

Luis M. Proenza is President of the University of Akron. Roy A. Church is President of Lorain County Community College. Comments on this article can be posted to the web via the link…
The Undereducated American
June 27, 2011

A new study by the Georgetown University Center on Education and the Workforce confirms that over the past 30 years, the demand for college-educated workers has outpaced supply, resulting in eco…
This Visible College
June 24, 2011

What does the future hold for higher education? How is American academia changing under the impact of continuous technological transformation? My previous column presented several scenario…
IT from Both Sides of the Executive Table
October 21, 2011 | A session at the EDUCAUSE 2011 Annual Conference

Information technology plays a fundamental and growing role in enabling education and research, yet the CIO's role in leading that evolution for colleges and universities is far from clear. As…

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