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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).
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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
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- 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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Workshop 02A - Instructional Technology Leadership Challenges: The Five Ps
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January 19, 2010
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A session at the ELI Annual Meeting 2010
As recently noted in EDUCAUSE Review , teaching and learning with technology has jumped up the charts, rising in the past year from number nine to number five on the annual survey of top-ten IT …
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Where Do You Want To Be in Five Years?
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February 2, 2012
“This is as important a time as there has ever been for the CIO to have a seat at the table with the president or provost of an institution. It is also a key time for the IT organization to be…
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The Evolution of the CIO: An EDUCAUSE Issues Brief
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October 28, 2009
Mobile technologies, consumer IT services, cloud computing, and changing expectations impact what colleges and universities want and need from IT and IT leaders. Economic pressures only heighten …
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Join the Conversation on Engineering IT Leadership
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January 24, 2012
The new EDUCAUSE Schools and Colleges of Engineering IT Leadership Constituent Group provides an opportunity to discuss issues associated IT leadership and support to the students, faculty, …
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Women as Current and Future CIOs
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October 30, 2009
© 2009 Wayne Brown and Polley McClure. The text of this article is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 License ( http://creativecommons.org/licenses…
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Opening the Door for IT Leadership Opportunities: New Voices from the Field
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October 29, 2009
Key Takeaways A predicted upcoming shortage of technology leaders in higher education argues for support and development of diverse candidates to fill the leadership pipeline. Women ten…
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Recognize Exemplary Leaders in Your Community
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December 15, 2011
Call for Nominations for 2012 EDUCAUSE Awards The year’s end is often a time for reflection. We invite you to recognize those in our community who have made exceptional contributions …
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Update Status: Friending gr8 Leaders
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November 4, 2009
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A session at the EDUCAUSE 2009 Annual Conference
Social networking presents opportunities to enhance leadership and staff development. How do IT leaders harness social networking to meet institutional goals and complement traditional offerings? W…
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Seminar 20A - CIO Grand Challenge: The Institutional Horizon
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November 3, 2009
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A session at the EDUCAUSE 2009 Annual Conference
CIOs must increasingly succeed at the institutional level, not just within the world of information technology. This highly interactive seminar will explore strategies CIOs can use to help their in…
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Functioning as a Leader When You're Not at the Top
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June 2, 2009
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A session at the EDUCAUSE Southeast Regional Conference 2009
We tend to think of leadership qualities as being most important for individuals who are in obvious senior positions on the organizational chart: CIOs, presidents, deans, and the like. But what abo…
