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 Information
Technology Advisory Service
This service assists presidents and other leaders of private colleges
and universities as they make decisions about purchasing and using information
technology to improve student learning, faculty productivity, and institutional
management. Project activities include convening information technology
experts and individuals from CIC institutions as advisors, developing
written materials, creating a section of CIC's website to make those materials
widely available, compiling rosters of consultants and campus-based individuals
who can share experiences, and establishing a clearinghouse process.
As part of the IT Advisory service, CIC published Information
Technology Benchmarks: A Practical Guide for College and University Presidents
in June 2004. This paper, prepared by David Smallen, vice president for
information technology, and Karen Leach, vice president for administration
and finance at Hamilton College (NY), is a handy reference guide for presidents
who must make decisions about expensive technology purchases, often without
an adequate framework for judging the appropriateness of an expenditure.
The paper makes use of available data from the Costs of Supporting Technology
Services (COSTS) project, and highlights six benchmarks that institutions
can use in comparing its own efforts with those of other institutions
in its Carnegie Classification.
Funder: The Verizon Foundation
Program Status: CIC published Information Technology Benchmarks:
A Practical Guide for College and University Presidents in June 2004.
A printed copy of the paper may be ordered
from CIC (free of charge) or an electronic copy (PDF format) may be
viewed here.
(In order to view properly, the minimum software
requirement is version 4.0. Adobe Acrobat, available for free from the
Adobe
Web site.)
Independent Newsletter Articles
Summer 2004: CIC
Issues Three New Publications
Press Release
August 2001: CIC
to Establish Information Technology Advisory Service
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