Educause, the higher-education-technology consortium, released the results yesterday of its 2008 survey on the top IT issues in higher education.
The top 10 issues “most important for…institutions to resolve for strategic success” are:
1) Security
2) Administrative/ERP Information Systems
3) Funding IT
4) Infrastructure
5) Identity/Access Management
6) Disaster Recovery/Business Continuity
7) Governance, Organization, and Leadership
8) Change Management
9) E-learning/Distributed Teaching and Learning
10) Staffing/HR Management/Training
Since 2003, the top three issues issues have been, in various rankings, security, administrative/ERP information systems, and funding IT. This year was the first time that change management appearuddy in the top-10 list, however.
Click here to find resources relating to each of these issues and an additional breakdown of the survey results.—Catherine Rampell