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Technology and the CEO:
The Role of Portals in Higher Education
By Dr. Jake B. Schrum,
President
Southwestern University
Editor's Note: President to President: Views of Technology in Higher Education (2005), published
by SunGard SCT (www.sungardsct.com), is the source for the following article.
We've excerpted Chapter 6, below, which gives a president's view of portals. We think you'll
enjoy this article on portal decision making at the highest level.
In August of 2004, a mythical university president,
Archibald Jones, became intrigued with the concept
of a campus portal. Knowing that portals are personalized
views of information, he decided to garner input from
Superior University’s various constituencies including
alumni, different types of students, faculty, and staff.
The chief information officer was aware of the president’s
interest in portals and his desire for input. Consequently
President Jones also received a letter from the ITS department.
President Jones has graciously (and magically) shared his
letters with us. His thoughts and reflections on the letters
are presented for your consideration.
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The Feeling Is Mutual
Indiana University and Purdue University
(IN) IT leaders have announced their plans for mutual wireless connectivity:
By the beginning of 2006, IU and Purdue University students, faculty,
and researchers will be able to visit each other’s campuses, physically,
anytime, and still have a convenient and seamless wireless connection
to their home campus networking environment. For example, if you're an IU researcher working in a lab at Purdue for the day, just bring your laptop or PDA-your stuff's right there on the network, as though you were on your own campus. "The way I prefer to describe it is that we are merging the networks," Michael McRobbie, IU's VP for Research and Information Technology told CT, stressing the goal of facilitating collaboration.
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Getting a Sense of RFID
With its new RFID Research Center in full swing, the University
of Arkansas is not passive about RFID technology. University
researchers from disciplines such as engineering and computer science
have joined forces with the Sam Walton School of Business and 30 companies
to test radio frequency identification systems and related wireless
and supply chain sensor technologies. The research laboratory, which
opened this past spring, has just received EPCglobal Performance Test
Center accreditation, making it one of the first EPC/RFID-accredited
research labs worldwide and the first academic lab to earn certification.
The center has attracted about $2 million so far from corporate sponsors,
including Deloitte Consulting, AC Nielsen, Cisco, Intel, Microsoft,
and others.
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In Memoriam
Howard Strauss, Princeton University
Campus Technology is saddened to learn of the untimely death of IT
leader-visionary Howard Strauss this past Monday. We remember him for
his work in technology strategy and outreach for
Princeton University,
his technology anchor role in the CREN TechTalks, and most of all for
us at CT and the Syllabus conferences, his professional speaking, writing,
and invaluable work on our own Syllabus conference advisory board. We
know that the higher education community will miss his energy, brilliance,
and the immeasurable contributions he made to his field. The family
is encouraging those who wish to remember Howard to send donations to
the American Cancer Society or to the ACLU.
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Who's Where
New Prez at Prince William Sound CC
Douglas Desorcie, who has served as interim president since November
2004, has been appointed president of Prince William Sound Community
College (AK). Desorcie began his career in the University of Alaska
Statewide System, at the University of Alaska-Fairbanks in 1987. He
joined PWSCC in 1992 and was appointed dean of instruction there in
1996. PWSCC's main campus is in historic Valdez, and along with its
two extensions it serves about 44,000 square miles.
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