August, 2005

The Edutech Report - August 2005 - Full Issue
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Five Things We Don’t Have
By Thomas Warger
Summer is IT’s season for optimism, regrouping, and some generally harmless wishful thinking. The coming year should be better yet. Good progress from the year just finished will help make a better future. Soon enough it will be time to decide what seems important and current, regardless of past plans and forecasts. After the Fourth of July, everyone starts counting down to the opening of the fall semester and the new campaign.

News Briefs
student laptop strategy paper, ECAR study on IT investment and business performance

Shaping the Future by Making the Right Changes Now
By Linda Fleit
As the primary ones on campus who understand the technology and who know where it can fit and who see its fantastic potential, CIOs need to both propel the right changes and to react to the changes that are already happening in the right ways. Why is this important? Three reasons: it may save your job, it will be better for the students, and it will help ensure the survival of your institution—or at least make it better than it already is.

Edutech Responds
Tracking computer inventory, IT staff vacation time, academic computing policy (question from July 1985)