Information Technology Leadership in Higher Education
ECAR Research Publications.
The Educause Center for Applied Research (ECAR) has published a study,
Information Technology Leadership in Higher Education:
The Condition of the Community (PDF, 122 pages), which is available to members of
ECAR Subscribing Organizations.
The document
“reports the results of a quantitative survey of 1,850 IT leaders and professionals at 765 higher education institutions in the United States and Canada. The study examines the general demographics, job mobility, and leadership styles of these IT leaders and professionals, as well as the characteristics of higher education work environments, the innovation climate in central IT organizations, respondents’ perceptions of IT effectiveness at their institutions, and the possible shape of the future of this professional community.”
Among other interesting findings:
- Respondents reported that their central IT organizations, overall, are not environments that are very supportive of innovation. (page 14)
- …perceptions of IT effectiveness erode as one moves down the organizational hierarchy and outward from the institution’s center…(page 15)