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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
- 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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Frye Leadership Institute 2.0: Educating, Incubating, and Innovating Change
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October 24, 2011
George F. Claffey Jr. ( gclaffey@charteroak.edu ) is Chief Information Officer for Charter Oak State College and the Connecticut Distance Learning Consortium. Katherine Furlong ( furl…
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Career Counselor
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September 27, 2011
To the Career Counselor: Our new president is making some seemingly good changes across campus that are now beginning to affect me — but I am not sure how to join in. The president has…
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The Higher Education CIO: Portrait of Today, Landscape of Tomorrow, 2011
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October 3, 2011
Key Findings The CIO role in higher education continues to inspire, perplex, and fascinate those who examine it. The 2011 ECAR study of information technology leaders in colleges and universit…
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Technology Leadership: Today’s Higher Education CIO
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August 16, 2011
There is little quantitative research on how to succeed as a CIO. Available literature, often based on expert opinion, focuses on highlighting select roles in which a CIO must excel as well as d…
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Designing and Delivering a Rich, Cost-Effective Leadership Development Program for IT Leaders
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October 19, 2011
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A session at the EDUCAUSE 2011 Annual Conference
When IT units have a difficult time planning for the "graying" workforce, the consequences can be significant. The University of Kentucky office of the CIO faced a staggering 23% of the e…
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The Right Stuff: Insights for Next-Generation Technology Leaders and the CIOs Who Mentor Them
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October 20, 2011
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A session at the EDUCAUSE 2011 Annual Conference
There is significant discussion around the changing demographics of the CIO and the move from current generation of CIOs to next generation CIOs. Join three successful CIOs and three technology lea…
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Transitioning to a Leadership Role: The First 90 Days and Beyond
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October 21, 2011
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A session at the EDUCAUSE 2011 Annual Conference
Using a case-based approach, a panel of higher education administrators (all Frye Leadership Institute Class of 2009 alumni) will leverage insight gained from the Frye Institute and their own exper…
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Spurring Others Toward Leadership in Our Profession
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October 20, 2011
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A session at the EDUCAUSE 2011 Annual Conference
This session will offer approaches, thoughts, and ideas to spur others toward leadership within higher education information technology. We'll focus on two audiences with differing perspective…
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The Evolving IT Leader Role: What's Needed Now and in the Future
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May 17, 2011
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A session at the Enterprise and Information Technology Conference 2011
This panel discussion will present various perspectives from IT leaders in the higher education community about the changing role of the IT leader and what the future trends in higher education wil…
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The Art of Negotiation
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June 2, 2011
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A session at the EDUCAUSE Southeast Regional Conference 2011
You are unique, just like everybody else, which makes negotiation with campus community members and commercial partners a fascinating experience. No matter how great our technical expertise, or how…
