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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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EDUCAUSE Library Items for Leadership Development
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3x for all: Extending the Reach of Education’s Best
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January 1, 2009
Teacher effectiveness has the largest impact of school effects on student learning, and research indicates that top-quintile teachers produce learning gains three times (3X) that of bottom-quin…
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Choose Your Own Adventure
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January 17, 2013
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A session at the Mid-Atlantic Regional Conference
Where are you in your IT career? Find out what skills and qualifications are needed to move into middle management or to an executive position and discuss the reality of getting there with academ…
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Headless Leadership: Unconferences and Other Spontaneous Disruptions in Your Workplace
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March 12, 2013
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A session at the NERCOMP Annual Conference
What happens when a small group of progressive thinkers picks a broad theme (mobile, the cloud) and decides to assemble an unknown group of fellow employees to talk about an ill-defined number of u…
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Developing Leaders in Higher Education IT
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February 13, 2013
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A session at the West/Southwest Regional Conference
Baby boomers are currently reaching retirement age, and higher education will not escape the impending retirement wave that is just reaching our shores. Our IT leadership ranks are projected to be …
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Participatory Leadership: The Wisdom Is in the Room
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March 19, 2013
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A session at the Midwest Regional Conference
In a rapidly changing environment characterized by increasing emphasis on efficiency, alignment, and strategic action, IT leaders in higher education need new skills that emphasize communication an…
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Elevate Your Game: Develop Your Five-Year Personal Professional Development Plan
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March 19, 2013
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A session at the Midwest Regional Conference
The adage failure to plan is planning to fail applies to our careers. No matter what your career level or financial and time constraints might be, there are many opportunities available for you to …
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Successful Mentoring Relationships for Career Development
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March 18, 2013
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A session at the Midwest Regional Conference
Participation in mentoring activities can be a key success factor in your career development. But how do you start? How do you find the right mentor or set of mentors for your situation? What sho…
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Benchmarking for CIOs
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January 16, 2013
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A session at the Mid-Atlantic Regional Conference
The CIO role is changing from technologist to business strategist, communicator, and financial manager. In this new role, having data and knowing what to do with it will be instrumental to CIOs&#…
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Piloting Innovation through Faculty Development Programs
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October 3, 2012
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A session at the ELI Online Fall Focus Session 2012
The University of Minnesota's Faculty Fellowship Program is an 18-month faculty development program designed to support transformational uses of technology to enhance learning while building…
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CIO Effectiveness in Higher Education and the Future of the Profession
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November 7, 2012
The higher education chief information officer is a relatively new role that is critical to the institution. In 2012, 50 percent of CIOs are predicting they will retire in the next 10 years. To f…
