Planning

EDUCAUSE Library Items for Planning

The School Safety and Law Enforcement Improvement Act of 2007

October 16, 2007

Recently in response to the tragedy at Virginia Tech, Chairman Patrick Leahy of the Senate Judiciary Committee has combined several pre-existing bills into a comprehensive package that would prov…

Report of the Virginia Tech Review Panel

August 31, 2007

This is the report on the Virginia Tech shooting by a review panel appointed by the governor of Virginia. The report covers the following topics, physical security, privacy laws, mental health…

Toward Sustainable Funding for Information Technology Infrastructure

August 28, 2007

This research bulletin presents a framework for the effective, ongoing, sustainable funding of IT infrastructure in universities and colleges. The framework articulates the composition of IT infr…

University Campus Safety Final Report

January 1, 2007

In light of the recent tragedy at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (Virginia Tech), Florida Governor Charlie Crist signed an executive order April 30, 2007, creating a Gubernat…

Emergency Notification Systems for a Mobile Community

January 1, 2007

In the wake of the tragedy at Virginia Tech, colleges and universities across the country are reviewing their emergency preparedness plans and evaluating their ability to quickly notify constitue…

Developing a University Systemwide Information Security Roadmap

April 11, 2007 | A session at the Security 2007

Developing and implementing a common set of baseline information security practices across all the campuses of a very large state university system can be a daunting undertaking. This presentation …

Considering Open Source: A Framework for Evaluating Software in the New Economy

January 2, 2007

Open source software and the community source movement are raising questions for administrators about whether and when to adopt or devote resources to software development projects, provoking que…

How Much Infrastructure Is Enough?

October 12, 2006 | A session at the EDUCAUSE 2006 Annual Conference

IT decision makers from small liberal arts institutions will share strategies for coping with the demand for increased hardware and software. Session leaders will describe policies and procedures t…

The Virginia Alliance for Secure Computing and Networking (VA SCAN): A Statewide Collaborative IT Security Resource

October 17, 2006

This case study examines ways in which the Virginia Alliance for Secure Computing and Networking (VA SCAN) provides a blueprint for higher education institutions interested in collaboratively pro…

IT Portfolio Management and Accountability in Higher Education

July 3, 2006

IT portfolio management at the University of Nebraska is being used to address accountability in the broadest sense: strategic decision-making, project analysis, and performance-based reporting. …