January 1, 2005

Edutech Responds
Designing a small GIS lab, extending helpdesk hours, administrative and academic IT staff

Full January 2005 issue of The Edutech Report in PDF format
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When IT is Going Right
By Thomas Warger
With the fall semester successfully closed and New Year’s resolutions already made, in that annual revival of optimism in nearly everyone, now might be a good time to think about the signs of things going right.

Newsbriefs
New Technology Newsletter From the Chronicle, New Faculty Guide Available, New Higher Education Partnership to Improve Cybersecurity

Critical Success Factors for the CIO: 1985 and 2004
By Linda Fleit
In 1985, James Penrod gave a talk at the CAUSE conference in which he outlined the seven “critical success factors” for CIOs. Lest we think that everything about IT changes at a dizzying pace, revisiting these seven factors today reveals how entirely applicable they all still are.

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