Educause, the largest technology association for higher education, released their annual list of top 10 issues for higher education information technology professionals.
This is an in-depth report that we will breakdown for you, but if you just can't wait, here is the first part.
The 2017 EDUCAUSE Top 10 IT Issues are all about student success.
Information technology in higher education continues to have many priorities and serve numerous constituents. IT service catalogs comprise hundreds of services to meet the many needs of faculty, students, and staff in various fields: the humanities; social, biological, and physical sciences; law; music; theater; art; business; and healthcare and allied professions.
You name it, higher education offers it, and the IT organization supports it.
Every academic and administrative area makes its own, separate demands on the IT organization, at any time and from any place. Despite the many and disparate requirements of each user and each technology, a predominant focus has risen to the top for higher education information technology in 2017, and that focus is 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 are involving every relevant stakeholder. Institutional technology is all three: resource, opportunity, and stakeholder.
2017 Top 10 IT Issues
- Information Security: Developing a holistic, agile approach to reduce institutional exposure to information security threats
- Student Success and Completion: Effectively applying data and predictive analytics to improve student success and completion
- Data-Informed Decision Making: Ensuring that business intelligence, reporting, and analytics are relevant, convenient, and used by administrators, faculty, and students
- Strategic Leadership: Repositioning or reinforcing the role of IT leadership as a strategic partner with institutional leadership
- Sustainable Funding: Developing IT funding models that sustain core services, support innovation, and facilitate growth
- Data Management and Governance: Improving the management of institutional data through data standards, integration, protection, and governance
- Higher Education Affordability: Prioritizing IT investments and resources in the context of increasing demand and limited resources
- Sustainable Staffing: Ensuring adequate staffing capacity and staff retention as budgets shrink or remain flat and as external competition grows
- Next-Gen Enterprise IT: Developing and implementing enterprise IT applications, architectures, and sourcing strategies to achieve agility, scalability, cost-effectiveness, and effective analytics
- Digital Transformation of Learning: Collaborating with faculty and academic leadership to apply technology to teaching and learning in ways that reflect innovations in pedagogy and the institutional mission
Source: Top 10 IT Issues, 2017: Foundations for Student Success
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