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Today’s IT organization must be resilient and visionary. To thrive in today's fast-paced environment, leaders at all levels of the IT organization, from the CIO to the help desk, must embrace everyday challenges while planning for the future. This collection of resources was created to help institutions prepare current and future leaders for the ever-changing higher education environment.
The Chief Information Officer in Higher Education, 2012 Reports, CHECS, June 2012. This study provides information about higher education CIOs’ attributes, education, experience, and effectiveness and about the technology professionals who are likely to replace these CIOs. (ECAR subscription required)
Filling the IT Leadership Pipeline: A Panel Discussion, EDUCAUSE Review Online, January 2012. Six CIOs and senior technology leaders talk about their backgrounds, the strengths and skills needed for future CIOs, and the challenges of preparing the next generation of CIOs. They list the most critical competencies for current and future CIOs, and they debate whether these competencies are changing.
Aspiring and Residing IT Leaders: A Legacy for the Future, EDUCAUSE Review Online, January 2012. Keith McIntosh, winner of the inaugural EDUCAUSE Rising Star Award talks about becoming a leader and developing future leaders in the IT professional community. He outlines three steps that aspiring leaders can take to cultivate their leadership skills and three steps that residing leaders can take to leave a lasting legacy.
The Higher Education CIO: Portrait of Today, Landscape of Tomorrow, EDUCAUSE Live! December 2011. This webinar highlights findings from a study of the same name from the EDUCAUSE Center for Applied Research (ECAR).
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The Pennsylvania State University’s “IT Connects” IT leadership skill development program.
EDUCAUSE Professional Development – below is a list of Institute Programs, including audience and program objectives
- A CIO, librarian, information technology professional, or administrator with a least seven years’ experience
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- Outlines the basic skills critical for management and supervision of projects, units and people
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- Critical success skills for executive leaders & keys to understanding institution-wide IT strategy
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- To understand higher education leadership, attributes of effective leaders, and strategic skills for influencing decision-making
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Interview: Loren Wilson, Director of Information Systems at Kansas State University
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April 22, 2013
In this conversation with Marilu Goodyear, Loren Wilson discusses collaboration and strategy as information systems director at Kansas State University. …
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CNI Podcast: Wikipedia and Libraries: What's the Connection?
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February 19, 2013
In this podcast, OCLC Research Senior Program Officer Merrilee Proffitt and Sara Snyder from the Smithsonian Libraries talk about their presentation, "Wikipedia and Libraries: Wh…
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ERO Conversation: Ian Dolphin, Executive Director of the Sakai Foundation
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February 11, 2013
Ian Dolphin is Executive Director of the Sakai Foundation. In this conversation with John Bucher, CTO for Oberlin College, Dolphin discusses the foundation's products and the benefits of com…
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CNI Podcast: Sigrun Eckelmann on the German Research Foundation
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February 1, 2013
Sigrun Eckelmann is Program Director for Academic Libraries & Information Systems at the German Research Foundation (DFG). In this interview she described the programs she works with …
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CNI Podcast: The Research Data Alliance
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January 18, 2013
Fran Berman is the Edward G. Hamilton Distinguished Professor in Computer Science at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and Chris Greer is the associate director of the IT Lab at the National I…
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CNI Podcast: Does Preservation as a Service (PaaS) Make Sense?
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January 17, 2013
David S. H. Rosenthal is Chief Scientist for the LOCKSS Program at Stanford University. In this conversation he discusses the pricing and surprising challenges of outsourcing long-term data s…
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CNI Podcast: Carly Strasser & John Kunze on New Tools for Enabling Research
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January 17, 2013
Carly Strasser is data curation specialist at the UC Curation Center. John Kunze is a preservation technologist for the California Digital Library. In this conversation they highlight…
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CNI Podcast: Anita de Waard on the Force 11 Research and e-Scholarship Community
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January 16, 2013
Anita de Waard is Vice President for Research Data Collaborations at Elsevier. In 2011 she joined with researchers, publishers, and digital scholars in various fields to create Force 11 , …
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ERO Podcast Conversation: Sarah Morrow, Privacy Officer for the Pennsylvania State University
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January 7, 2013
Sarah Morrow is a privacy officer for the Pennsylvania State University. In this podcast conversation she talks about the relationship between privacy and institutional interests. …
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Podcast: Discovery in a Digital World
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December 12, 2012
Speaker: Edward L. Ayers, President, University of Richmond In the most effective teaching, students create new knowledge even as they learn. Digital environments possess remarkable capaci…
