What IT is Viewed as Important to Higher Education and do we measure how we are doing

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What IT is Viewed as Important to Higher
Education---and do we measure how we are doing?

• SREB
• Feb. 11, 2004

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Some Educause Activities To Answer These Questions

• Current Issues Survey
• Committee Insights
• Core Data Service

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Current IssuesFifth Annual Survey

• Which IT-related issues are most important for
  your campus to resolve for its strategic success?
• Which IT-related issues have the potential to
  become much more significant in the coming year?
• Which IT-related issues are you, as an IT leader
  or administrator, spending most of your time
  addressing?
• On which of the IT-related issues is your campus
  spending the most human and/or financial
  resources?

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Most Important to Campus
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Potential Emerging Issues
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Current Issues Committee Ongoing and Emerging
Issues
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Emerging Technology Committee Issues
2002
2003
Bandwidth Management
Course Management Systems
Security
Disaster Recovery Planning
Grid Computing
Digital Asset Management
Wireless Networking
Wireless Networking
Institutional Repositories
Integrated Library Systems
Physical IT Facilities Security
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How Do We Measure How We Are Doing?

• Educause Core Data Service
• www.educause.edu/coredata
• Goal is to create a source of longitudinal data
  for the profession and for individual
  institutions to benchmark against

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• Core Data Service asks numerous questions
  pertaining to the top IT issues of Funding, ERP,
  and Security. Broad areas
• IT Organization, Staffing, Planning
• IT Financing and Management
• Faculty and Student Computing
• Networking and Security
• Information Systems
• 51 questions, with 267 data elements
• Modular design to allow best person to fill out
  each area online

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• A flavor of the data
• Does the CIO sit on the presidents cabinet?
• Central vs. decentralized IT compensation
• How many hours does the public help desk operate?
• Procedures for applying software patches and
  updates
• ERP costs

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• New features for 2004
• Trend tools last year vs. this year
• Pre-filled data
• Ratio analysis

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• Some features of the analysis service
• Access limited to participating institutions
• Ability to identify specific participating
  institutions
• Ability to create peer groups
• Filters for Carnegie, size, control
• Ability to sort data
• Graphics and statistics

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• Participating in this years survey gives access
  to both last years and this years results
• Closing date March 15
• http//www.educause.edu/coredata/