Campus IT Priorities: A Conversation with Kenneth C. Green of The Campus Computing Project

Campus IT priorities are changing -- or are they? Clearly campus IT leaders confront significant budget challenges and as well as the growing demand for additional IT resources and services: going mobile, maintaining IT security, supporting online instruction, migrating to cloud computing, enabling lecture capture, and also updating the institutional IT infrastructure. Yet new data from the fall 2012 Campus Computing Survey reveal that core issues — the instruction integration of information technology, IT user support, and hiring/retaining qualified IT personnel — are the top concerns of CIOs and other senior campus IT officers. Moreover, the fall 2012 survey data suggest that presidents, provosts, and CIOs offer a very up mixed assessments about the effectiveness of campus IT investments. Please join us as Sean Brown, Sonic Foundry's vice president for education interviews Casey Green, founding director of The Campus Computing Project. Sean and Casey will have a far-reaching conversion about the challenges that confront campus IT officers as well as the IT priorities that emerged from the fall 2012 Campus Computing Survey. Presenter: Kenneth C. Green is the founding director of The Campus Computing Project, the largest continuing study of the role of information technology in American colleges and universities. The project is widely cited by both campus officials and corporate executives as the definitive source for information about information technology issues affecting American higher education. Green is the author/co-author or editor of a dozen books and published research reports and more than 100 articles and commentaries that have appeared in academic journals and professional publications. Green also serves as the senior research consultant to INSIDE HIGHER ED and developed INSIDE HIGHER ED's surveys of college presidents, financial officers, and admissions officers. In October 2002 Green received the first EDUCAUSE Award for Leadership in Public Policy and Practice. The EDUCAUSE award cites his work in creating The Campus Computing Project and recognizes his "prominence in the arena of national and international technology agendas, and the linking of higher education to those agendas." Moderator: Sean Brown, Vice President of Education, Sonic Foundry