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Leaders and managers who work in the higher education IT environment face challenges common to all university leaders: rapidly changing technology, shrinking budgets, policy and legislative changes, globalization, private sector competition, a changing student population, and much more. Successful IT leaders must have the talents, qualities, perspectives, and political skills to support the institution's goals and strategic directions and respond to these business drivers. In addition, they must be aware of trends in the IT field and their implications for higher education. As well as possessing excellent communication and organizational skills, effective IT leaders understand the nature of higher education, the style and context in which decisions are made, and the technology employed.

EDUCAUSE’s wealth of resources for IT leaders and managers focus on the environment in which IT leadership takes place, the planning and organizational skills needed to provide institutional leadership, and the individual characteristics required to develop and sustain a career in IT leadership. We encourage you to explore these pages to find articles, books, conference presentations, effective practices, and relevant communities to support your information needs. EDUCAUSE members contribute much of what you will find here. We invite you to submit your work to further enrich the IT management and leadership area.

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Your Campus on a Smartphone, and the Future of Mobile Education (10:15 a.m. PT; 11:15 a.m. MT; 12:15 p.m. CT; 1:15 p.m. ET): March 3, 2010 | A session at the ELI 2010 Online Spring Focus Session
More students are using mobile devices to manage their social, personal, and academic lives, which makes the question of how best to fit mobile technology into the campus environment one of incre…
You Need to Go Mobile Now, but How? The UC/UCLA Mobile Web Framework: October 20, 2011 | A session at the EDUCAUSE 2011 Annual Conference
Students, faculty and staff—not to mention alumni—are demanding a mobile presence. Higher education institutions need to go mobile now, but how? This session will walk you through how UCLA, UC …
Wireless Networking at Carnegie Mellon University: August 16, 2002

Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) is a well-known pioneer in many uses of IT in higher education. In 1994, CMU was conducting about $20 million of research into mobile and wearable computing and c…
Wireless Laptop Computing: A New Direction in Student Computing: January 1, 1999

Over the past year, the installation of a wireless laptop network has been part of a fundamental change in the way Johns Hopkins University School of Public Health has approached student computing.…
Wireless Handheld Computers in the Enterprise: Big Planning Issues for Small Devices: January 1, 2003

Wireless-enabled handhelds are becoming more ubiquitous--and simultaneously more challenging in terms of support and interoperability. But they also represent powerful tools for teaching and learni…
Wireless at Highly Wired Mobile Universities? Campus Infrastructure and Library Applications: January 1, 2001

Wireless, cost effective options for creating and recreating technology-rich educational spaces. Libraries must apply enabling technologies for access to collections relevant to users and staff. Se…
Wireless All the Way: User's Feedback on Education Through Online PDAs: January 1, 2003

The Vrije Universiteit of Amsterdam is developing a series of geoinformatics course modules that will be delivered wirelessly through full online devices such as handheld pocket PCs. The educationa…
Will Mobile Learning Bring a Paradigm Shift in Higher Education?: January 27, 2011

In the light of technology-driven social change that creates new challenges for universities, this paper considers the potential of mobile learning as a subset of e-learning to effect a paradig…
Whole-Disk Encryption Evaluation and Deployment: February 20, 2008 | A session at the EDUCAUSE Southwest Regional Conference 2008
Baylor University has spent two years working on a large-scale deployment of whole-disk encryption. This session will present the process from selecting the encryption technology to the culminating…
Who is driving the influx of new technologies?: April 25, 2011

In a word: consumers. Having been a technology professional since the 70s, I find it fascinating that technologists today often know less about the overall technology landscape than ‘digital na…

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