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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 detailed look at the most pertinent and interesting IT financial and staffing findings, with a high-level summary of the state of IT services.

Technology and the Broken Higher Education Cost Model: Insights from the Delta Cost Project, September 5, 2012. The Delta Cost Project has drawn attention to the need for a new focus on institutional spending and has provided a number of useful metrics for thinking about how different types of institutions spend money, about the relationships between costs and revenues, and about the declining public subsidies in public higher education.

The EDUCAUSE 2011 Core Data Service Report: Highlights and Insights into Higher Education Information Technology, January 2012. "The IT Organization, Budgets, and Funding" chapter provides statistics on where IT funding sources are from and what the budget is being spent on.

Expert Discussion Session: Unexpected Outcomes from the Cost-Cutting Era. EDUCAUSE 2011 presentation. Two CIOs share their experiences and some of the outcomes from these belt-tightening measures.

Funding-Model Archetypes for Central Information Technology Functions. ECAR research bulletin, January 2012. This CDS Spotlight ECAR research bulletin focuses on EDUCAUSE Core Data Service survey results related to funding models for IT functions.

Increasing Corporate Philanthropy to Enrich Technology Innovation in Higher Education. EDUCAUSE Quarterly 33, no. 4, 2010. The author provides suggestions for higher education in creating partnerships with corporate philanthropists.

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Benchmarks: Helping Your President Understand IT Investments: October 20, 2004 | A session at the EDUCAUSE 2004 Annual Conference
Presidents face increasing requests for financial resources to support the use of IT on their campuses. Benchmarks for IT--developed in the COSTS project--will be used to illustrate how to shed lig…
Charging by the Bit: Network Cost Recovery at Cornell: January 1, 2004

To address requirements for a fair and sustainable network cost recovery process that enables a nonrestrictive world-class network service, Cornell has implemented a new network billing model. Th…
Fifth Annual EDUCAUSE Survey Identifies Current IT Issues: January 1, 2004

CURRENT ISSUES Fifth Annual EDUCAUSE Survey Identifies Current IT Issues Funding IT remains number one, while security and identity management hit budgets hard By Donald Z. Spicer , …
Report of the EDUCAUSE IT Funding Working Group: January 1, 2004

Last year, more than 50 senior administrators participated in an online EDUCAUSE working group to discuss issues associated with funding IT on college and university campuses. One result of this ef…
Autonomously Organized and Funded IT Groups: January 1, 2004

Good Ideas Autonomously Organized and Funded IT Groups A look at several peer universities helped solidify ideas for organizational and funding changes to support academic research at Rice …
Flatlining Technology Investment in a Changing World: January 1, 2004

We will focus on how to structure current IT budgets into key manageable buckets that will allow an institution to create a stable, predictable, and fundable IT budget, year over year. The budget w…
Secure Extramural Funding for IT Projects: January 1, 2004

If you need to supplement or secure funding for IT projects ranging from buying PCs for classroom/labs, constructing distance-learning facilities, building/expanding networks, renovating older buil…
Budget and Funding Strategies: January 1, 2003

This session was a current issues roundtable. Just scan today's higher education news stories and it quickly becomes apparent that most colleges and universities have something in common -- …
Funding Information Technology: January 1, 2003

EDUCAUSE Executive Briefing #2. The need for realistic strategies to fund information technology on college and university campuses has never been greater. This executive briefing offers several …
We Need to Reframe the IT Issue: January 1, 2004

© 2004 John C. Cavanaugh EDUCAUSE Review, vol. 39, no. 1 (January/February 2004): 6–7. We Need to Reframe the IT Issue John C. Cavanaugh Much has been written and discu…