2017 Top 10 IT Issues

It's all about student success.

Colleges and universities are concentrating on student success to address concerns about the costs, value, and outcomes of higher education. Student success initiatives are making use of every available resource and opportunity and involving every relevant stakeholder. Institutional technology is all three: resource, opportunity, and stakeholder.

The 2017 issues list identifies the four focus areas for higher education information technology:

• Develop the IT foundations
• Develop the data foundations
• Ensure effective leadership
• Enable successful students

These issues and focus areas are not just about today. Higher education information technology is very clearly building foundations for student success to last into the future.

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Perspectives by Topic

• Enterprise IT Perspectives on the 2017 Top 10 IT Issues
  Next-gen enterprise IT offers the opportunity for IT organizations to align more closely with institutional strategy by taking advantage of a variety of solution and service providers to meet institutional goals.
• Enterprise Connections: Cross-Institutional Collaboration: Niche or Trend?
  EDUCAUSE Vice President Susan Grajek considers one of the issues on the slate that did not make the list this year: IT Partnerships: Developing partnerships for sharing IT services, platforms, and resources across a campus or with multiple institutions.
• Information Security: Risky Business
  EDUCAUSE members identify the top higher education information security risks that are a priority for IT leaders today.
• Teaching and Learning and IT Issues: Exploring the Intersections
  This article highlights the results of two EDUCAUSE community surveys—from the IT and the teaching and learning communities—and shows their complementary priorities, intersections, and synergies.
• Corporate Perspectives on the Top 10 IT Issues
  Higher education is one of our economy's most collaborative and open sectors. Although much of that collaboration has occurred among peers, many corporations have become effective partners instead of simply vendors by collaborating with colleges and universities to co-create solutions that optimize value for both sides.
• Academic Libraries and the EDUCAUSE 2017 Top 10 IT Issues
  Academic libraries and higher education IT groups need to tackle the two major challenges of today's higher education, student success and higher education affordability, together.