Institutional Management

EDUCAUSE Library Items for Institutional Management

Centralizing Student Support for Academic Success

March 11, 2009 | A session at the NERCOMP Annual Conference 2009

Students require IT support to achieve academic success. Combining several disparate groups, UNH's IT Support Center has centralized in-person services to more effectively meet students' …

Controlling Expectations and Setting Priorities: The IT Magic Wand Laid to Rest

March 10, 2009 | A session at the NERCOMP Annual Conference 2009

Connecticut College administrators no longer expect IT to "wave a magic wand" to get administrative or web system projects done when they want, regardless of complexity or available resou…

Bottom-Up Analytics

March 10, 2009 | A session at the NERCOMP Annual Conference 2009

Saint Michael's College developed institutional analytics that draw data from the College's operations dashboard and industry databases. The analytics have been used successfully by senio…

Hidden Her-story: The Top-Secret “Rosies” of World War II In 1942, when computers were human and women were underestimated, a group of female mathematicians helped win a war and usher in the computer age.

January 9, 2009 | A session at the EDUCAUSE Mid-Atlantic Regional Conference 2009

As you read this, somewhere in the United States a young college woman is completing a class assignment on a computer, i-chatting with a friend in another country, or perhaps blogging about the day…

Agile Project Management and IT Governance: Moving to Enterprise 2.0

January 9, 2009 | A session at the EDUCAUSE Mid-Atlantic Regional Conference 2009

Originally developed as a software development framework, agile project management (APM) is now being implemented for not only for IT project management and governance but also throughout the agile…

All Hazards: The Role of IT in Campus Security and Emergency Management

January 8, 2009 | A session at the EDUCAUSE Mid-Atlantic Regional Conference 2009

Vulnerabilities on our nation's college and university campuses have come into sharp focus in recent years, dominating headlines with what seems like increasing frequency and greater consequen…

Incorporating Online Human Touch: Instruction and Programming to Increase Online Student Engagement and Retention

January 8, 2009 | A session at the EDUCAUSE Mid-Atlantic Regional Conference 2009

The long-term sustainability of online education programs is highly dependent on student enrollment and retention. Therefore, administrators need to identify strategies and models that engage, conn…

The Technology Revolution in Higher Education: IT as a Catalyst of Change - Sponsored by Wimba, An EDUCAUSE Bronze Partner

January 7, 2009 | A session at the EDUCAUSE Mid-Atlantic Regional Conference 2009

One thing we can count on is that things change constantly. Whether you're new to higher education IT or you're a seasoned professional, we each face change in our workplace everyday. The…

Campus Emergency Notification at UNC–Wilmington

June 2, 2008 | A session at the EDUCAUSE Southeast Regional Conference 2008

This presentation will explore the challenges that UNC–Wilmington encountered in providing for the broadcast and communication of emergency notification alerts to the at-large campus community. A…

The Development of an Institutional IT Policy Process

March 18, 2008 | A session at the EDUCAUSE Midwest Regional Conference 2008

The University of Wisconsin–Madison has developed a process for the life cycle of institutional IT policy that emphasizes the involvement of governance bodies, functional offices, campus departme…