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EDUCAUSE Technologies WorkshopsCIC is pleased to announce a new initiative, in cooperation with EDUCAUSE, which will provide enhanced professional development opportunities for campus information technology (IT) staffs. For the past 12 years, CIC and EDUCAUSE (and its predecessors CAUSE and Educom) have held a spring Information Technologies Workshop in Pittsburgh, tailored expressly for the needs of small to medium-sized private institutions. This year, instead of sponsoring that particular workshop, CIC and EDUCAUSE are working to make current and future workshops under the auspices of EDUCAUSE increasingly useful to CIC member institutions. At these EDUCAUSE events, CIC and EDUCAUSE will provide opportunities for individuals from private colleges and universities to work together. These opportunities will vary, but might, for example, take the form of topical discussion roundtables that have been so popular at the annual Pittsburgh workshop. For the coming year, we have identified four EDUCAUSE and EDUCAUSE-affiliated
events that may be of particular interest to CIC members. The conferences
include both national meetings on specific topics such as administrative
computing and a growing series of regional workshops covering a range
of IT topics. In beginning this new joint effort, CIC seeks to enhance
opportunities for independent colleges and universities in several ways.
First, we want to increase access to up-to-date information, since technological
change continues unabated. Second, we want to provide more in-depth coverage
of certain topics as well as more events throughout the country. Third,
we want individuals from smaller institutions to connect and learn from
one another at conferences designed for a broader higher education audience.
The discussions during CIC’s strategic planning roundtables during this
past year highlighted these needs. Opportunities for CIC members
at the following EDUCAUSE conferences…
NERCOMP
in Worcester, Massachusetts, features presentations, discussions, and
workshops centered on the challenges facing information technology practitioners
on campus. How are new technologies changing the way our institutions'
missions are delivered and how, in turn, are the new technologies and
new customer expectations changing IT organizations' strategies for organizing
the campus infrastructure and our information services and resources?
This
conference brings together a national audience to discuss topics such
as IT architectures, systems, and applications and their impact on student
learning, instruction, and the delivery of campus services. The
2002 NERCOMP conference will focus on the issues surrounding IT support
in a 24 x 7 mode. As students, faculty, and other constituents on campus
are using our services 24 hours a day, what are the implications for our
support models? What tools can we implement to provide support even while
we are not staffed around the clock? What expectations should users have?
Join
fellow IT managers, staff, librarians, administrators, faculty, and colleagues
from throughout the northeast United States and Canada to discuss these
questions at NERCOMP this spring.
Bringing
HEAT up North:
Exploring
New Landscapes for Administrative Technology May
12–15, 2002 CUMREC,
a Higher Education Administrative Technology Conference, is for those
who use and enable technology to support administrative processes in higher
education. CUMREC attendees include IT professionals and users—from technical
administrators to managers and directors. The conference provides a forum
for technologists to share their knowledge, ideas, and experience; to
demonstrate effective, practical solutions; and to explore the latest
developments in information technology with a wide range of corporate
presentations from hardware, software, and consulting services providers.
The exhibit hall will showcase the latest advances in technology targeted
to serve campus needs. The
rapid growth of electronic commerce, an explosion of Web applications
and portal technology, and the maturing of data warehousing and enterprise
resource planning (ERP) are just a few of the important issues the 2002
conference will confront. CUMREC 2002 also will focus on a wide range
of management issues: staff training and retention, leadership development,
and collaborative efforts. The 47th annual CUMREC
conference will give participants many opportunities to share experiences,
learn from colleagues, brainstorm, and strategize. It will be held at
the Hyatt Regency Minneapolis on Nicollet Mall, located in the heart of
the downtown Minneapolis business and financial district, just one mile
from the Guthrie Theatre, Walker Art Center, and the Metrodome.
June
17–19, 2002,
Double Tree Guest Suites, Charleston,
South Carolina www.educause.edu/conference/serc/2002
The second annual EDUCAUSE Southeast
Regional conference is designed for colleagues who are interested in developing
and refining the skills they will need to support information technologies
in higher education. Developed for mid-to-senior level IT managers, this
conference will showcase the technologies, tools, and techniques to provide
IT support 24/7 to the institution. Participants will share best practices
and learn about leading efforts to Web-enable legacy systems, implement
ERPs, refine campus network security, and discuss other key areas of campus
practice. The EDUCAUSE Southeast Regional Conference features preconference
workshops and is oriented to help higher education's 'next generation
of IT leaders' acquire the skills and peer relationships that will be
needed to assume increasing responsibilities on campus.
As information technology increasingly is used to support all aspects of higher education, user and institutional expectations have risen. IT organizations are thus squeezed between these expectations and the realities of the limits to growth. To help IT executives in higher education in the mid-Atlantic region address these increased expectations, EDUCAUSE is presenting a new regional conference.
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