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About
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IT Issues Panel
EDUCAUSE Top 10 IT Issues
2013 Top IT Issues Coming Soon!
The top IT issues for 2013 will be announced in the May/June issue of EDUCAUSE Review. Our thanks to the IT Issues Panel for their contributions.
2012 Summary Article and Resources
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"Top 10 IT Issues, 2012," EDUCAUSE Review article
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Video, a quick look at the top-three issues
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Vice President Susan Grajek's EDUCAUSE 2012 presentation, "The Top IT Issues in Higher Education" (select the Resources tab)
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EDUCAUSE Live! webinar recording
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Resource list
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Interactive graphic depicting issues trends year-to-year
- Campus Technology, November 15, 2012, "Reflecting on the Top IT Issues of 2012"
2012 Issues Reflect Privacy, Security, and Compliance Challenges
EDUCAUSE Policy's Rodney Petersen blogs about the policy implications of this year's issues. Read More >
The EDUCAUSE IT Issues Panel
Most Issues Panel members are CIOs, other senior IT or library leaders, or faculty, selected by EDUCAUSE to reflect the composition of its membership. The group may on occasion include others with useful perspectives, such as leaders from other associations or non-IT higher education leaders. Membership in the group is by invitation only, its discussions are private except for the reports mentioned below, and individual members’ contributions are kept confidential.
Responsibilities and Process
Members of the Issues Panel have two principal responsibilities:
From time to time – no more frequently than weekly, and probably at least once a month – EDUCAUSE asks Issues Panel members to respond to specific questions. Sometimes these questions are about topics that have arisen during events or in online discussions; the goal is a quick read on how widespread or important those topics are. Sometimes the questions are about actions EDUCAUSE might take or changes it might make to existing programs. Issues Panel members agree to respond to such questions quickly, generally within 48 hours.
Once each quarter, the EDUCAUSE Vice President of Data, Research, and Analytics convenes the Issues Panel for approximately two hours. In advance of each quarterly session, EDUCAUSE asks Issues Panel members to identify the issues they believe are most important in higher-education IT practice at that point, emergent or otherwise significant. During the meeting, Issues Panel members and participating EDUCAUSE leaders discuss the issues members have listed, and agree on which seem most important. The resulting list then becomes available to the public on a web page.
Based on the quarterly discussions, EDUCAUSE may commission papers or reports, organize online webinars, conduct case studies, undertake research, or solicit relevant sessions for EDUCAUSE conferences and events. Once a year, EDUCAUSE staff review the Issues Panel's discussion of issues over the past year, and draft a Current Issues Report for review and commentary by the Issues Panel and then widespread dissemination.
