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Saturday, January 28, 2012

Current Issue — Volume 47, Number 1, January/February 2012

Just look at this interesting line-up in this EDUCAUSE Review below.


Photo: Diana G. Oblinger
Diana G. Oblinger writes, "This issue of EDUCAUSE Review focuses on leadership and celebrates leaders in the higher education IT community. Leadership can exist at all levels of an institution or organization. It does not come from a job title, nor is it self-appointed.

We must take the best from our traditions and our experience so that we can adapt to constantly changing circumstances. Leadership is about more than power or authority. It is about values, experience, analysis, and the discipline to change what we need to change. As Collins notes: "We cannot predict the future. But we can create it.""

Information Technology: A View from Both Sides of the President's Desk
By Michael A. McRobbie   

A university president who was also his institution's vice president for information technology and CIO for ten years answers the questions: "What do you now think about technology? From your point of view as a president, what are the major issues in information technology today? What has changed in your thinking?"
  
Filling the IT Leadership Pipeline: A Panel Discussion
By Bruce Maas, Brian Paige, Michael Ridley, Theresa Rowe, Bo Wandschneider, and Melissa Woo  

Six CIOs and senior technology leaders talk about their backgrounds, the strengths and skills needed for future CIOs, and the challenges of preparing the next generation of CIOs. They list the most critical competencies for current and future CIOs, and they debate whether these competencies are changing.
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Aspiring and Residing IT Leaders: A Legacy for the Future
By Keith W. McIntosh   

The winner of the inaugural EDUCAUSE Rising Star Award talks about becoming a leader and developing future leaders in the IT professional community. He outlines three steps that aspiring leaders can take to cultivate their leadership skills and three steps that residing leaders can take to leave a lasting legacy.
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Source: EDUCAUSE Review