C-Level View :: February 28, 2007

Executive View

The Successful CIO: Vision, Focus, and Execution
An interview with John Camp, Wayne State University (ret.)
Retired this last January, John Camp was deputy CIO or CIO at Wayne State University (MI) for the last 10 years and in IT leadership positions there since 1985. Active professionally and now chair of the Educause Current Issues committee, Camp thinks hard about the leadership role of the CIO and the strategic impact CIOs can have at their institutions. CT interviews this 22-year veteran CIO about his career and perspectives on leadership....

Worth Noting

Putting All Your Apples in One Basket?
Wilkes University (PA) announced last week that it would institute a university-wide switch from Windows-based PCs to Apple's new Intel-based Macs. Within three years, the entire university will become an all-Mac campus....
Encyclopedias and the Easy Way Out
How many times did your grade school teachers tell you, "Don't just use that encyclopedia for your term paper?" With electronic resources on the Web, now they have to add "Wikipedia," and more, to that admonition....
IMS Releases "Learning Technology Satisfaction and Trends" Report
On February 12 the IMS Global Learning Consortium released the latest report in its ongoing study of "satisfaction and trends" in technologies used to support education....

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