The Proceedings of the
1993 CAUSE Annual Conference

General Information
Universities and colleges have come to accept change as the only constant in their institutional processes. Information technology is and will continue to be in the forefront of those change agents that will distinguish successful institutions from the less fortunate. In this era of rapid change in mission, economics, and technology, what special leadership challenges do managers of information technology face?

Planning--Who should be involved in planning for IT? How do you plan when change is so dramatic?
Strategies--How have you helped your institution to change? How have you aligned IT objectives with institutional objectives? How have you coped when there is no satisfactory institutional strategic plan?
Evangelism--Is evangelism part of our role as IT administrators? How have you "sold" the value of IT on your campus?
Innovation--What new ways have you found to do old things on your campus? How do you recognize opportunities? How do you capitalize on a paradigm shift?

• Asurite: How to Avoid Creating a Distributed Computing "Tower of Babel"
• Integrating Computing Resources: A Shared Distributed Architecture for Academics and Administrators
• Technology Planning for the Nineties: Responding to the Challenge to do More Work With Fewer Resources
• Lots of Data! No Information!
• Leadership and the Changing Role of Chief Information Officers in Higher Education
• Strategies for Data Management Leadership: Why, Who, What and How
• A Model for Change
• Implementing Distributed Computing at Cornell University