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12 Innovative Cost-Cutting & Revenue Enhancing Strategies for Colleges & Universities

September 10, 2019 Written by Elmore Alexander and Nuno Couto

In the last two Meetup blog posts, we explored ways that IT departments can be a part of overall strategies for advancing the educational and administrative missions of the university by sharing the perspectives of CIO’s and CFO’s from our most recent MeetUp event. This topic has been of interest to our group for the […]

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Educause Review: Peer-Reviewed & Curated Articles for Higher Ed IT

January 4, 2019

Although Educause has already proven itself to be one of the most popular websites for Higher Ed IT professionals, their online & print publication Educause Review deserves its own praise as one of the best of its kind. They publish high-quality peer-reviewed and curated articles on a myriad of topics.Continue Reading

Wildfly: A Free & Open Source Application Server

December 25, 2018

Wildfly, formerly known as JBossAS, is a fast, lightweight, and free open-source application server for your university’s application development needs. As open-source software with an active community of users and contributors, the wealth of knowledge and resources for Wildfly is substantial. While the Wildfly is completely free, Red Hat also provides support via subscription.Continue Reading

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12 Innovative Cost-Cutting & Revenue Enhancing Strategies for Colleges & Universities

Published on September 10, 2019 | Written by Elmore Alexander and Nuno Couto

In the last two Meetup blog posts, we explored ways that IT departments can be a part of overall strategies for advancing the educational and administrative missions of the university by sharing the perspectives of CIO’s and CFO’s from our most recent MeetUp event. This topic has been of interest to our group for the […]Continue Reading

Information Technology: Strategic Business Partner in Colleges and Universities

Published on August 26, 2019 | Written by Michael Ginzberg

In a recent blog post (Elmore Alexander, “Making IT Departments Part of the Overall University Strategy: CIO-CFO Partnerships and Beyond”), we explored the idea that college and university IT units have the opportunity to move beyond being cost centers to being strategic business units. That is, IT need not be just a necessary, but expensive, unit with no substantial business impact, but can instead become a unit with real impact on the school – how it does business and what business it does.Continue Reading

Making IT Departments Part of the Overall University Strategy: CIO-CFO Partnerships and Beyond

Published on August 19, 2019 | Written by Elmore Alexander

Historically, college IT units are characterized as “cost centers” performing an increasingly critical function for the college’s educational and administrative mission but representing an increasingly expensive part of the budget. IT services across campus have become more expensive as faculty members, administrators, and students have demanded access to the latest hardware and software. IT budgets and staffs are taxed to keep up.Continue Reading

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