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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 Analysis and Research (ECAR).
Institution Leadership Programs
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
- To learn how to create a collaborative community that takes leadership on critical issues to develop a platform for collective action
- An IT professional new to or aspiring to management
- Outlines the basic skills critical for management and supervision of projects, units and people
- Existing manager with some supervisory experience
- Practical skill development in effective management
- New CIO or an experienced senior-level leader aspiring to CIO/executive-level leadership
- Critical success skills for executive leaders & keys to understanding institution-wide IT strategy
Learning Technology Leadership Program
- Experienced individual in a learning technology position who aspires to a leadership role
- To understand higher education leadership, attributes of effective leaders, and strategic skills for influencing decision-making
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The CIO Minute: Brian Voss
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June 3, 2013
Choosing a new CIO is not just high stakes for the IT department of an institution, but can affect the larger organization for years to come. …
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The Power of Data in MOOCs
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June 3, 2013
Daphne Koller, co-founder of Coursera Inc., talks about the ways in which analyzing student and instructor behavior can contribute to better learning outcomes in MOOCs. …
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EDUCAUSE Top-10 IT Issues 2013
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June 3, 2013
A quick rundown of the list with comments from higher education IT leaders. A quick rundown of the list with comments from hi…
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On the Path to CIO
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June 3, 2013
Mark Askren, CIO for the University of Nebraska–Lincoln, discusses the perceived and actual role of the CIO and creating a path to higher education IT leadership. …
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Grit
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June 3, 2013
Diana G. Oblinger is President and CEO of EDUCAUSE. What does it take to address the 2013 top-10 IT issues and be a CIO? Grit. Grit, it seems, may be as essential as intelligence…
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IT Career Development of the Future
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June 3, 2013
Clare van den Blink is Director of Academic Technologies at Cornell University. Due to the shifts within information technology—shifts such as cloud-sourcing and a renewed focus o…
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Closing the Gap: Addressing STEM Workforce Challenges
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June 3, 2013
Cameron Evans is National and Chief Technology Officer, U.S. Education, for Microsoft. Madeleine McKenna is a U.S. Government Affairs Fellow with Microsoft. Beneva Schulte is the Executi…
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The Role of Subsidy in Scholarly Communication
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June 3, 2013
David W. Lewis is Dean of the IUPUI (Indiana University–Purdue University Indianapolis) University Library. Scholarly communication is being disrupted. As I have argued elsewhere,…
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A Portfolio for Strengthening IT Leadership Skills
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June 3, 2013
Julie Little is Vice President for Teaching, Learning, and Professional Development at EDUCAUSE. Norma Holland is Director of Leadership Program Management and Professional Development a…
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Scaling a Higher Education Enterprise Electronic Content Management System at Texas A&M University
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June 3, 2013
Key Takeaways Texas A&M University sought to centralize and consolidate their various electronic content management solutions into single shared service . After selecti…
