Cornell University

Todd Kreuger, CIO, Samuel Curtis Johnson Graduate School of Management at Cornell University

To facilitate sustainable success amid the various obstacles in higher education's IT landscape, IT departments must play a key role in driving innovation, transformation, and differentiation within each constituency group on campus. Many such groups embrace technology as the vehicle for organizational success; the key is finding the right technology. Identifying and implementing the appropriate technical solution requires collaboration, fueled by trust, to steer the project to the appropriate end result.

Unfortunately, many projects end up miles away from what the customer needs due to collaboration and trust issues. In some unfortunate cases, such projects — with their

Building Productive and Collaborative Relationships at the Speed of Trust

Building Productive and Collaborative Relationships at the

Todd Kreuger, CIO, Samuel Curtis Johnson Graduate School of Management at Cornell University

To facilitate sustainable success amid the various obstacles in higher education's IT landscape, IT departments must play a key role in driving innovation, transformation, and differentiation within each constituency group on campus. Many such groups embrace technology as the vehicle for organizational success; the key is finding the right technology. Identifying and implementing the appropriate technical solution requires collaboration,

The Ongoing Challenge

The Ongoing Challenge

With the explosive growth in information technology,¹ IT leaders have had to scramble to keep pace, and in many cases, they are still in the midst of "catching up." Given the fact that institutions are grappling with numerous security concerns and challenges, it's safe to say that information security has also been obscured to varying degrees over the years.² We believe that significant institutional vulnerabilities, combined with escalating security problems, require institutional leaders to respond more vigorously.

This belief is backed up by the EDUCAUSE annual look at the top IT issues in higher education. The relationship and balance between information security and IT priorities has made the

Achieving the (Often Delicate)

Achieving the (Often Delicate) Balance between Technology and Information Security

onald L. Vaughn, President of the University of Tampa since January 1995 and holder of the Max H. Hollingsworth Chair of American Enterprise, previously served as Coordinator of the Department of Marketing, Director of the MBA program, Dean of the College of Business and Graduate Studies, and Co-Chief Academic Officer. Tammy Clark is Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) at the University of Tampa.

Higher education leaders today face mounting pressure to compete for dwindling numbers of college applicants, account for learning outcomes, embrace technology innovation and disruption, and make key decisions regarding whether to move enterprise applications and infrastructure to the cloud. In the midst of this, there is an equally compelling need to ensure that the balance between information technology and information security is continually adjusted to provide adequate protection for the

A Tuition-Free College Degree

Shai Reshef is Founder and President of University of the People.

I would like to share with you a new model of higher education—a model that, once expanded, can enhance the collective intelligence of millions of creative and motivated individuals who otherwise would be left behind. Look at the world. Pick a place and focus on it. You will find people chasing higher education. Let's meet some of them.

Embracing Failure to Spur Success: A New Collaborative Innovation Model

Kim A. Wilcox is Chancellor of the University of California, Riverside. Edward J. Ray is President of Oregon State University.

On college and university campuses across the United States, we're surrounded by a resource that leads to discovery, innovation, and growth—yet we don't embrace it at the leadership level. That resource? Failure.

Ten Reasons to Tackle the Top 10 IT Issues

Diana G. Oblinger is President and CEO of EDUCAUSE.

The focus of this first issue in the 50th volume of EDUCAUSE Review is the EDUCAUSE Top 10 IT Issues, 2015. These issues represent the critical concerns for our profession. They are complex challenges, encompassing multifaceted human, technological, and organizational issues that can often take years to address. In "Top 10 IT Issues, 2015: Inflection Point," EDUCAUSE Vice President Susan Grajek and the EDUCAUSE IT Issues Panel describe this year's top issues and offer advice for tackling each.