Institutional Management

EDUCAUSE Library Items for Institutional Management

Changing the Culture of an IT Organization, Whirlwind Style

April 11, 2013

Yale’s IT organization is in transformation mode. The journey over the past 18 months has covered everything: a major reorganization; a top-to-bottom and side-to-side implementation of ITI L…

Onboarding CIOs and other Executive Level IT Staff

March 18, 2013 | A session at the Midwest Regional Conference

CIOs come and go but the staff lives on. How do you ensure your new CIO is ready to lead on Day 1? A new CIO needs to learn not only the “what,” but also the “why” and “how” of the organizati…

2012 CDS Executive Summary Report

January 24, 2013

This report summarizes results from the EDUCAUSE Core Data Service (CDS) survey. Using a matched set of 616 CDS 2011 and CDS 2012 participating institutions, this year’s report is a detaile…

Building Organizational Capacity for Analytics

February 25, 2013

Optimizing student success is the “killer app” for analytics in higher education . Intelligent investments in optimizing student success garner wide support and have a strong, justifia…

Making Time for the Strategic Initiatives: Exploring Ways to Obtain a Better Balance

April 18, 2013 | A session at the Enterprise IT Leadership Conference 2013

An IT organization must adjust the services it offers and how it provides them so that it can have the ability to focus on initiatives that help the institution address its strategic objectives and…

Going Exponential – Growing the Charter Sector’s Best

January 1, 2011

The supply of seats in the nation’s best charter schools is not growing rapidly enough to serve the millions of low-income children who need better schools.  Based on lessons from the fastes…

Breakthrough Models for College Readiness: An Introduction to Next Generation Blended Schools

November 28, 2012

This compilation of Next Generation Learning Challenges (NGLC) grantee profiles illustrates the innovative approaches of 20 new blended learning school models awarded grants under NGLC's…

Leadership and Learning Analytics

November 26, 2012

Learning analytics enables a new level of data-driven decision making for the purpose of supporting students . Learning analytics is a collective institutional effort in every way: ide…

Service Blueprinting: Transforming the Student Experience

November 1, 2012

Mary Jo Bitner is Professor of Marketing, PetSmart Chair, and Executive Director of the Center for Services Leadership in the W. P. Carey School of Business, Arizona State University. Amy L. O…

What Campus Leaders Need to Know About MOOCs

December 20, 2012

MOOCs (massive open online courses) are courses delivered over the web to potentially thousands of students at a time. In a MOOC, lectures are typically “canned,” quizzes and testing ar…