General Sessions

Lessons Learned from Multi-Institutional Collaborations

Friday, June 20, 2003
9:30 a.m. - 10:30 a.m. GS02

Herbert Baines, Director, IT Security, Georgia Institute of Technology

Donald E. Harris, Vice Provost & CIO, University of Oregon

Olya Jerschkowsky, Director, Technical Services, Emory University

John Mullin, CIO/AVPresident/AVProvost for IT, Georgia Institute of Technology

When institutions agree to joint academic programs IT staff are often the last to find out, yet providing IT infrastructure and support is critical to these collaborative endeavors. This session explores how Emory University and Georgia Tech IT divisions worked together to address a pressing need to support a graduate program in biomedical engineering and discovered other ways to partner in the process. In addition to ERP implementations, security, academic facilities, and disaster-recovery strategies, they learned a few things about multi-institutional collaborations. This session will explore this topic to encourage others to form partnerships with neighboring institutions.

Why Information Technology Has Not (Yet) Paid Off As We Hoped

Thursday, June 19, 2003
9:00 a.m. - 10:00 a.m. GS01

Edward L. Ayers, President, University of Richmond

Networks and computers have enabled deep transformations in distance education, in the infrastructure of student and faculty administration, and in libraries. But in the two central areas of education—the classroom and scholarship—IT has not exerted nearly the impact we had hoped. This talk will suggest some ways that new technologies and strategies might yet have the transformative impact many have long predicted.