Directors Leadership Seminar

Proceedings

View proceedings for the 2007 Directors Leadership Seminar.

Blogging and Tagging the Conference

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Agenda

This seminar, which is the main program, will open with a reception on Sunday, August 5, at 7:00 p.m. and will end on Wednesday, August 8, at 12:00 p.m. We encourage you to check this page frequently for updated agenda information.

You can view the full conference agenda, detailed program information, or follow the links below for schedule information for specific dates. The best way to plan your seminar schedule is to use our Itinerary Builder, which allows you to chart, save, update, download, and print your itinerary before you go to Snowmass Village.

• Sunday schedule (Full details)
• Monday schedule (Full details)
• Tuesday schedule (Full details)
• Wednesday schedule (Full details)

Also available is a complete listing of speakers, and links to their sessions. Speakers now have the ability to upload session materials. Click here to view a list of sessions with available resources.

Session Types

• Plenary Sessions
• Parallel Sessions
• Tutorial Sessions
• Discussion Sessions
• Birds-of-a-Feather

Who Should Attend?

The Directors Leadership Seminar may interest those at multiple levels of leadership and decision making at institutions of higher education, including directors and managers of computing, information, and communication services; executives; provosts; librarians; and faculty.

Approach

The Directors Leadership Seminar is the main program at SAC, offering leaders in higher education information technology an intimate setting for reflecting on and discussing the impacts and challenges of campus IT.

This year's seminar, "Realizing Strategic Integration: Information, Technology, and the Academy," will explore how the world's rapidly evolving information environment is changing the nature of higher education. The academy's traditional disciplinary and organizational boundaries are eroding, and assumptions about the nature of learning and the creation of new knowledge are being challenged. As the academy transforms, college and university leaders, IT professionals, librarians, and faculty find themselves at the center of vigorous debates about how best to create the information environments of the future.

Participants will learn about the latest developments in this vital area of higher education and discuss them with innovators. Seasoned leaders will share how they've explored opportunities and developed strategies to improve the quality of IT services offered at their institutions.

Ample opportunities will exist for dialogue with others who are navigating the tricky but rewarding aspects of IT in higher education, including a series of organized discussion sessions and birds-of-a-feather sessions each afternoon, as well as open times for one-on-one discussion and networking.

Program Committee

Directors Leadership Seminar 2007 Program Committee members