EDUCAUSE Live! November 13, 2009 1:00 p.m. ET (12:00 p.m. CT, 11:00 a.m. MT, 10:00 a.m. PT)

The Tower and the Cloud: Higher Education in the Age of Cloud Computing

Special Guest

Richard Katz
Vice President
EDUCAUSE

Richard N. Katz is vice president of EDUCAUSE and founding director of the EDUCAUSE Center for Applied Research (ECAR). At ECAR, he oversees the research program and a network of alliances, partners, research fellows, contractors, and faculty grantees. Katz is also responsible for corporate relations at EDUCAUSE and was responsible for forging relationships with the Northwest Academic Computing Consortium (NWACC), the NorthEast Regional Computing Program (NERCOMP), the Seminars on Academic Computing (SAC), and CUMREC, the College and University Computer Users Association.

Prior to joining the association, Katz held a variety of senior positions spanning 14 years at the University of California (UC). In 1994, he staffed the nine-campus UC system's Improved Management Initiative, chairing and coordinating the groups charged with rethinking university approaches to human resources management, capital programs, institutional accountability and administrative assessment, and financial systems management. As executive director of Business Planning and Practices, he was responsible for guiding or implementing many of these strategic management initiatives. At UC, Katz was awarded the Gurevich Prize, the Olsten Award, and was the second recipient of that university’s Award for Innovative Management and Leadership.

Katz is a well-known conference keynote speaker and presenter. He is the author, co-author, or editor of seven books, four research studies, and more than fifty monographs and articles on a variety of higher education, management, and technology topics. He received a bachelor's degree from the University of Pittsburgh and an MBA from UCLA.

Summary

Your host, Steve Worona, will be joined by Richard Katz, and the topic will be "The Tower and the Cloud: Higher Education in the Age of Cloud Computing."

Universities have served important functions in society for more than a thousand years. They have done so in part by creating places that promote reflection, discussion, discovery and learning. For many people, the university-as-place is central to the purposes of the university. The university is also an idea and, increasingly, ideas—in the Internet—have enormous power to stimulate learning and discovery. Indeed, what many now describe as “Web 2.0” is a view that the web is evolving into a social environment that has the potential to extend the influence and reach of institutions and individuals. This talk will address the co-evolution of higher education and the Internet and will explore issues the roles of place, expertise, and even truth, in a world of abundant information and changing academic expectations.

Related EDUCAUSE Resources

• 7 Things You Should Know About Cloud Computing
• Cloud Computing for the Academic Institution
• The Tower and the Cloud
• Cloud Computing Resource Page
• Cloud Computing Policy Resource Page
• Archives of past EDUCAUSE Live! seminars