Administrative Information Systems Award

About the Award

The award program for Excellence in Administrative Information Systems honors innovative and noteworthy applications or practices that use information technologies to improve campus administrative and business processes with creativity, efficiency, and effectiveness worthy of emulation. The selection committee looks for innovative practices that address issues of widespread interest on higher education campuses.

The EDUCAUSE Current Issues Committee has identified a number of issues of widespread interest on college and university campuses, described on the Web at http://www.educause.edu/issues Projects that address these kinds of issues would be highly appropriate submissions. Other areas of specific interest for campus networks might be:

• Process improvement
• Decision support systems
• System interoperability
• Security and identify management
• Content management systems
• Campus facilities management
• Organization and service delivery models
• Business continuity/disaster recovery
• Document management and preservation

Winners of this award are selected by the Administrative Award Committee, with strategic oversight from the EDUCAUSE Recognition Committee.

This award program is sponsored by SunGard SCT, An EDUCAUSE Platinum Partner.

Administrative Information Systems Award Winners

Guidelines and Eligibility

• Up to two awards are given each year.
• Projects must have been completed or implemented during the three years prior to the application date.
• Applications may not be submitted in consecutive years for the same accomplishment without significant change since the initial submission.
• More than one project may be submitted from the same institution.
• Projects will not be recognized in more than one category of the EDUCAUSE awards for institutional achievement.
• The applying institution need not be a member of EDUCAUSE.
• Applications may not come from institutions represented on the EDUCAUSE Administrative Information Systems Award Committee or on the Recognition Committee.

Recognition

Award winners will receive sculptures specially designed for this program by Colorado artist John Haertling, along with complimentary registration, travel, and housing for one representative at the conference at which the presentation takes place. Winner representatives are invited to present highlights of their project in a conference session. Descriptions of winning projects will be made available on the EDUCAUSE Web site and/or in print publications, and will be highlighted as award winners in the EDUCAUSE Effective Practices and Solutions database.

Applications

This award will be discontinued in 2006.