Leadership

EDUCAUSE Library Items for Leadership

Education Achievement Authority: Nolan Elementary-Middle School

November 28, 2012

Charged by the governor of Michigan to transform the lowest five percent of the persistently lowest achieving schools in the state while simultaneously developing a new approach to educating st…

Leadership and Learning Analytics

November 26, 2012

Learning analytics enables a new level of data-driven decision making for the purpose of supporting students . Learning analytics is a collective institutional effort in every way: ide…

From Innovation to Operation

February 5, 2013 | A session at the EDUCAUSE Learning Initiative Annual Meeting

Innovation by definition means "new." But at some point, everything that is new—if it continues—stops being new. In IT departments, the adoption of something that is "new"…

Benchmarking for CIOs

January 16, 2013 | 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&#…

Re-envisioning a Polytechnic Commitment

November 1, 2012

Patrick B. O'Sullivan is Director of the Center for Teaching, Learning and Technology at California Polytechnic State University. Jeffrey D. Armstrong is President of California Pol…

"Mary Isn't Contributing to the Coffee Fund!": Strategies for Managing Staff in a Rapidly Changing Environment

January 17, 2013 | A session at the Mid-Atlantic Regional Conference

Higher education today is a rapidly changing, complex environment faced with constantly increasing expectations for flexibility, accountability, creativity, and teamwork. This presentation will f…

How to Foster Agile Working Groups at Your Institution

January 17, 2013 | A session at the Mid-Atlantic Regional Conference

Does your staff feel overwhelmed? Always working in crisis mode? Are you looking for ways to empower your staff and go from a reactive to a proactive culture? Investigate the option of agile, sha…

Attack of the Rampaging Stakeholders

January 17, 2013 | A session at the Mid-Atlantic Regional Conference

This s a practical guide to leading large groups of stakeholders through a project. The project in question involves users at 23 colleges and a system office, with active participation of student…

Women CIOs in Higher Education

October 16, 2012

In the professional field of information technology, women are generally underrepresented , and this gap grows wider at the upper end of the field—CIOs and other senior IT executives. Becaus…

Piloting Innovation through Faculty Development Programs

October 3, 2012 | 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…