Information technology cannot always cost more, grow ever bigger, and consume more staff time. The benefits of task automation have been real, but they have been increasingly offset by inefficiencies in the very fabric of information technology in higher education. The campus hunger for IT needs to encounter something like the restraints on most other campus appetites. The challenge for the IT group is to take a more directive approach to driving selected consolidation of systems, services, and standards, without which IT costs will rise unsustainably.