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Too Many Buildings, Not Enough Bandwidth

Posted on April 24, 2020 Written By Dr. Michael Ginzberg and Nuno Couto 1 Comment

Too Many Buildings, Not Enough Bandwidth

The COVID-19 pandemic has resulted in numerous immediate changes in higher education—online education only, closed campuses, remote work for faculty and staff. While many may hope these changes are temporary and things will go back to the way they were, that is quite likely not what will happen. Pressures have been building for several years to move more courses and programs online. Although many institutions already offer some online learning, it has not been without resistance from various stakeholders, especially faculty.

Coping With Catastrophes—Lessons Learned From Natural and Human-Made Disasters

Posted on April 7, 2020 Written By Dr. Michael Ginzberg Leave a Comment

Coping With Catastrophes—Lessons Learned From Natural and Human-Made Disasters

The COVID-19 pandemic is a natural disaster that has created a crisis for higher education institutions. Perhaps more accurately, COVID-19 has layered an immediate crisis on top of an emerging crisis for higher education. As terrible as the current crisis is, COVID-19 is not the first disaster to hit higher education institutions, and it will not be the last. Many lessons have been drawn from previous crises that can inform our behavior as we face the immediate pandemic crisis as well as the longer-term, growing crisis in higher education.

Coping With Our Current Crisis—More Change on the Horizon

Posted on March 27, 2020 Written By Dr. Elmore Alexander, Dr. Michael Ginzberg and Nuno Couto Leave a Comment

Coping With Our Current Crisis—More Change on the Horizon

The current global public health crisis is creating huge challenges for higher education. Colleges and universities across the globe are closing on-campus activities. Classes–and day-to-day business–are moving online. Higher education institutions are scrambling to deal with the day-to-day operational issues of the crisis, and these are, no doubt, huge.

Information Technology: Strategic Business Partner in Colleges and Universities

Posted on August 26, 2019 Written By Dr. Michael Ginzberg Leave a Comment

Information Technology: Strategic Business Partner in Colleges and Universities

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.

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