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Advancing Scholarship and Intellectual Productivity: An Interview with Clifford A. Lynch
Brian L. Hawkins
EDUCAUSE Review Vol. 41, No. 3 (2006)
In this second part of a two-part interview with Clifford A. Lynch, Executive Director of the Coalition for Networked Information, Lynch talks to Hawkins about the most provocative and exciting projects that are being developed in the field of...
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A Framework for the CIO Position
Brian L. Hawkins
EDUCAUSE Review Vol. 39, No. 6 (2004) pp. 94–98
The CIO (Chief Information Officer) is a relatively new concept in higher education. There have been directors of college and university computer centers for over half a century, but the first CIOs did not appear until the late 1970s. The need for...
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Administrative and Organizational Issues in Campus Computing
Brian L. Hawkins
New Directions for Higher Education Vol. 62 (1988) pp. 13–26
University computing is in rapid and continuing change. What is needed are structures and procedures flexible and adaptable enough to capture new opportunities and stable enough to allow order in each transition. This must involve all parts of the...
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Twelve Habits of Successful IT Professionals
Brian L. Hawkins
EDUCAUSE Review Vol. 41, No. 1 (2006) pp. 56–58
In all positions, professionals must continue to develop their skills. The higher education IT profession is no exception. However, many of these skills should be developed progressively. If IT professionals can start learning these twelve skills...
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Looking at Our Professional Field
Brian L. Hawkins
EDUCAUSE Review Vol. 35, No. 1 (2000) pp. 98–104
Examines the field of information resource professionals and information technology in higher education. Discusses the blurring of organizational responsibilities as information becomes available in electronic format; a shift in requisite skills...
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Winds of Change: Charting the Course for IT in the Twenty-First Century
Brian L. Hawkins
EDUCAUSE Review Vol. 42, No. 6 (2007)
In the spring of 2005, the author, the retiring president of EDUCAUSE, was asked to be the keynote speaker at the EDUCAUSE Western Regional Conference. The conference theme was "Winds of Change: Charting the Course for Technology in Challenging...
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Advancing Scholarship and Intellectual Productivity: An Interview with Clifford A. Lynch
Brian L. Hawkins
EDUCAUSE Review Vol. 41, No. 2 (2006)
In this article, Brian L. Hawkins, President of EDUCAUSE, interviews Clifford A. Lynch, Executive Director of the Coalition for Networked Information (CNI), and the recipient of the 2005 EDUCAUSE Award for Leadership in Public Policy and Practice,...
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Technology, Higher Education, and a Very Foggy Crystal Ball
Brian L. Hawkins
EDUCAUSE Review Vol. 35, No. 6 (2000) pp. 64–73
Changes Hawkins predicts include: higher education markets will be smaller than anticipated; residential campuses will still be important; institutions will need to partner with other institutions to remain effective; competition will continue to...
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Preparing for the Next Wave of Computing on Campus
Brian L. Hawkins
Change: The Magazine of Higher Learning Vol. 23, No. 1 (1991) pp. 24–31
Colleges should not be overly concerned with technology as an end in itself; computers are only part of the solution. As new applications are developed, interaction and information seeking of members of the academic community will change...
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Presidential Leadership for Information Technology
David Ward; Brian L. Hawkins
EDUCAUSE Review Vol. 38, No. 3 (2003) pp. 36–47
Addresses six information technology (IT) questions that should be answered by college presidents, providing illustrations from campus experience and offering advice from experienced presidents: "How much should we spend?"; "Which processes should...
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Going... Going... Gone: Thoughts on Retirement
Brian L. Hawkins; Carole Barone
Educause Quarterly Vol. 31, No. 4 (2008) pp. 56–60
Many people are ambivalent about retirement. The authors begins this article with a set of bullets describing several reasons for retiring. They then offer ten suggestions for retirees that may help them not only with navigating through the...
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The Myth about the Digital Divide
Brian L. Hawkins; Diana G. Oblinge
EDUCAUSE Review Vol. 41, No. 4 (2006) pp. 12–13
Although computer ownership is not 100 percent, progress has been made on closing the digital divide. However, defining the digital divide according to the haves and have-nots of computer ownership is only a starting point. Beyond computer ownership,...
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The Myth about Online Course Development: "A Faculty Member Can Individually Develop and Deliver an Effective Online Course"
Diana G. Oblinger; Brian L. Hawkins
EDUCAUSE Review Vol. 41, No. 1 (2006) pp. 14–15
In the early days of online courses, a widespread production model was to provide faculty members with release time and/or stipends in return for developing and delivering their own courses. These early online courses were developed by a cadre of...
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The Myth About Saving Money: "IT Investments Will Save The Institution Money"
Brian L. Hawkins; Diana G. Oblinger
EDUCAUSE Review Vol. 40, No. 2 (2005) pp. 12–13
Claims that investing in information technology will save money for a college or university have rarely proven true. In fact, realizing the promised dollar savings is so rare in higher education that the credibility of many IT professionals has been ...
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The Myth about CIOs "If We Could just Find a Good CIO, These Problems Would Go Away"
Brian L . Hawkins; Diana G. Oblinger
EDUCAUSE Review Vol. 40, No. 1 (2005) pp. 12–13
Have you ever heard, "If we could just find a good CIO, these problems would go away"? Certainly, having a strong and wise leader at the top of the IT organization is important; however, having such a person is not sufficient to effectively...
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The Myth about Students
Diana G. Oblinger; Brian L. Hawkins
EDUCAUSE Review Vol. 40, No. 5 (2005) pp. 12–13
In this article, the authors discuss the reality of today's current students and their expectations of the institutions they attend. Specifically, they describe the current generation, the Net Generation, of traditional-age college students who have ...
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The Myth about IT Security
Diana G. Oblinger; Brian L. Hawkins
EDUCAUSE Review Vol. 41, No. 3 (2006) pp. 14–15
Seeing an institution's name in the headlines for a security breach may be among a CIO's-- and a president's--worst nightmares. Whether the breached data involves social security numbers, credit card accounts, clinical records, or research, this is ...
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Key Findings for the Fiscal Year 2006 Core Data Service
Brian L. Hawkins; Julia A. Rudy
Educause Quarterly Vol. 31, No. 1 (2008) pp. 71–73
In 2003, EDUCAUSE launched a program called the EDUCAUSE Core Data Service (CDS), which consist of: (1) an annual survey that collects data about IT environments and practices on (primarily) member campuses; (2) a Web-based, interactive database...
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The Myth about Going It Alone: "We Can Handle Our Own IT Needs Internally"
Brian L. Hawkins; Diana G. Oblinger
EDUCAUSE Review Vol. 40, No. 6 (2005) pp. 12–13
Higher education has a long history of self-reliance; institutions provide all the services they need internally, even if they are located in close proximity to other institutions. According to Frank Rhodes, president emeritus of Cornell University, ...
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Data: Roads Traveled, Lessons Learned
Kenneth C. Green; David Smallen; Karen Leach; Brian L. Hawkins
EDUCAUSE Review Vol. 40, No. 2 (2005)
In their efforts to better understand, plan for, and make decisions about information technology on campus, higher education leaders need data. They need benchmarking and longitudinal data. They need data about IT budgets, expenditures, and...