IT Management | Higher Education News | eCampus News https://www.ecampusnews.com/it-leadership/ Higher Ed News Mon, 15 May 2023 19:03:54 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.2 https://www.ecampusnews.com/files/2021/03/cropped-ecnicon-1-32x32.jpg IT Management | Higher Education News | eCampus News https://www.ecampusnews.com/it-leadership/ 32 32 107582492 5 registration functions your higher-ed SIS doesn’t have https://www.ecampusnews.com/it-leadership/2023/05/18/5-registration-functions-your-higher-ed-sis-doesnt-have/ Thu, 18 May 2023 09:00:00 +0000 https://www.ecampusnews.com/?p=101553 Students are accustomed to attentive service--give them a higher-ed SIS registration and scheduling option that intuitively keeps them on track for graduation.Colleges and universities that use Excel sheets or their Student Information Systems (SIS) to build student schedules not only leave their students frustrated with the registration experience, but they also make it difficult for staff to create schedules.

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]]> 101553 Tech consolidation offers seamless user experience https://www.ecampusnews.com/it-leadership/2023/04/21/multi-tenant-scenarios-higher-ed/ Fri, 21 Apr 2023 09:00:00 +0000 https://www.ecampusnews.com/?p=101298 Multi-tenant environments in higher ed create barriers that prevent seamless connection and collaboration between users.Multi-tenant scenarios create barriers that prevent seamless connection and collaboration between users, lead to data silos, and can drive up IT spending for institutions.

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]]> 101298 Can higher ed tackle its 10 biggest IT challenges? https://www.ecampusnews.com/it-leadership/2023/04/05/can-higher-ed-tackle-its-10-biggest-it-challenges/ Wed, 05 Apr 2023 18:33:00 +0000 https://www.ecampusnews.com/?p=101258 The EDUCAUSE 2023 Top 10 IT Issues help describe the foundation models that colleges and universities will develop next year and beyond.It's an imperative: Higher education must evolve and innovate, moving away from older models and forging new paths.

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]]> 101258 Privacy, infrastructure, and innovation: Keys to success in higher ed https://www.ecampusnews.com/it-leadership/2023/04/03/privacy-infrastructure-innovation/ Mon, 03 Apr 2023 09:00:00 +0000 https://www.ecampusnews.com/?p=101201 A robust IT experience is critical to an institution’s success--IT infrastructure that evolves with changing needs deliver a successful experience.Colleges and universities need greater flexibility to respond to rapidly changing circumstances – a major takeaway from the pandemic. Many institutions are struggling to support data protection requirements and meet students’ administrative needs. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) Director Jen Easterly recently noted that education is a focus for the agency, as institutions are “target-rich, resource-poor entities….that are part of critical infrastructure, [yet] they don’t have large security teams.”

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]]> 101201 3 ways IT tools are streamlining higher ed https://www.ecampusnews.com/it-leadership/2023/03/24/3-ways-it-tools-are-streamlining-higher-ed/ Fri, 24 Mar 2023 09:00:00 +0000 https://www.ecampusnews.com/?p=101114 higher ed IT can help streamline educationAs higher-ed institutions increasingly rely on technology, campus IT and IT leadership are assuming a pivotal role in ensuring that universities satisfy the needs of students, staff, and faculty.

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]]> 101114 3 ways software drives higher-ed payments innovation https://www.ecampusnews.com/it-leadership/2023/03/15/software-higher-ed-payments-innovation/ Wed, 15 Mar 2023 07:27:00 +0000 https://www.ecampusnews.com/?p=101047 Learn how software innovation and payments innovation help institutions tackle higher education affordability, keep students enrolled, and ease legacy SIS upgrades.When my colleagues and I set out to build an online billing and payments solution for higher education in 1997, roughly 35 percent of U.S. households owned a computer. Building and developing something that presented billing information and securely processed digital tuition payments was really complicated.

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]]> 101047 4 considerations for remote proctoring systems https://www.ecampusnews.com/teaching-learning/2023/02/10/4-considerations-remote-proctoring-systems/ Fri, 10 Feb 2023 10:00:00 +0000 https://www.ecampusnews.com/?p=100560 remote proctoring systemsWhile it was already relatively common practice before the COVID-19 pandemic, remote proctoring has become even more popular at institutions across the nation, leading to concerns and the need for important considerations as these systems are designed.

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]]> 100560 Universities struggle to capture data’s value, study finds https://www.ecampusnews.com/it-leadership/2023/02/07/universities-data-management/ Tue, 07 Feb 2023 10:00:00 +0000 https://www.ecampusnews.com/?p=100586 Institutions face major challenges in capturing data from research and administrative operations and in making that data work together.Universities are literally awash in data. From administrative data offering information about students, faculty and staff, to research data on professors’ scholarly activities and even telemetric signals--the functional administrative data gathered remotely from wireless networks, security cameras and sensors in the course of daily operations--that data can be an invaluable resource.

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]]> 100586 Can CRMs help HBCUs achieve recruitment and retention goals? https://www.ecampusnews.com/it-leadership/2023/02/02/can-crms-help-hbcus-achieve-recruitment-and-retention-goals/ Thu, 02 Feb 2023 10:00:00 +0000 https://www.ecampusnews.com/?p=100570 A CRM could help higher-ed HBCU leaders use the same revenue-boosting strategies of companies to increase enrollment and retentionAlthough many high school graduates intend to move on to higher education, not all students do--and many of them are low- and moderate-income students who are also students of color. This begs the question: What is higher education doing to help them?

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]]> 100570 Give your students what they want https://www.ecampusnews.com/it-leadership/2023/01/31/give-your-students-what-they-want/ Tue, 31 Jan 2023 10:00:00 +0000 https://www.ecampusnews.com/?p=100671 Students are your institution's most important customer--here's how to meet their needs and improve the student experienceIn this episode of Innovations in Education, hosted by Kevin Hogan: 6 things students want to know about their digital courses; Overcoming barriers to on-time completion; and Esports is Upgrading.

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