The Campus Computing Survey

Hiring and Retaining Campus IT Talent Are Challenges;
Many Campus Leaders Are Not Well-Informed About nor Engaged with Digital Issues

The Compounding Consequences of IT Budget Cuts;
Few Campuses Evaluate the Impact of Their IT Initiatives

Key campus IT issues in the 2016 Campus Computing Survey were Personnel, Instruction, Budgets, Security, and Analytics

Great faith in the instructional benefits of digital technologies; great expectations for the rising use of OER

Campuses struggle to provide effective user support and IT training, and also digital access for disabled students

Campus IT officers affirm the instructional integration of IT as their top priority, and offer mixed reviews on IT effectiveness and outsourcing for online education

A mixed assessment on the effectiveness of campus IT investments

Big gains in going mobile; slow movement towards cloud computing

IT budget cuts slowing; campus LMS strategies in transition

IT budgets are down -- again

Colleges invest in emergency notification

IT security and crisis management pose continuing challenges