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By Monica Wesley - EvoLLLution. With tuition costs continuing to rise, both cumulative and individual student loan debt becoming unsupportable, and an employment landscape that is rapidly evolving in challenging ways, it is no wonder that colleges and universities are being asked to demonstrate their tangible value. More...

By Navneet Johal - EvoLLLution. Higher education continues to lag behind other industries when it comes to cloud computing. However, the tide is slowly but surely turning, and more institutions are moving from contemplating cloud, to committing to cloud. More...

By James DeVaney - EvoLLLution. Election season is here so I suppose our expectations should be set for division, oversimplification and the fallacy of the excluded middle. When the road ahead gets complicated, as many innovative decisions and pathways tend to steer, we often force each other to reject complexity and any number of mid-range choices in favor of extreme positions. More...

By Rhonda Tracy - EvoLLLution. After developing the value propositions that would support the business plan, the investigation of innovative business models for distance education began. Guiding questions were developed to ensure relevancy and applicability of the research to KCTCS. More...

By Ravi Ravishanker - EvoLLLution. “Top 10 IT Issues, 2015: Inflection Point” is an excellent report from EDUCAUSE capturing the issues facing higher ed. While every one of us who is responsible for technology support at our institutions can (in one way or the other) relate to these issues, the specific ways and the order in which these are important to us will be extremely different. More...

By Lige Hensley - EvoLLLution. Cloud computing presents exciting opportunities for higher education institutions to transform the way they operate and to create better experiences for students, but only if the leaders and staff who make the transition can take advantage of these opportunities. More...

By Bernard Golden - EvoLLLution. As with any other major change in the higher education space, especially when that change is IT-related, cloud-hosting for critical institutional services has been analyzed and re-analyzed by leaders across the postsecondary space. More...

By Jose Coll - EvoLLLution. The economic and political imperatives that drive the complex nature of higher education today have introduced a new paradigm of management reform with a contemporary focus on efficiency and quality. Although touted by many as a new phenomenon, Public Private Partnerships (P3) have a long history dating more than a decade in the United States. More...

By Lesley Nichols - EvoLLLution. Higher education leaders are under more pressure than ever before to deliver on student expectations. The marketplace is immensely competitive and, given the options available to today’s students, colleges and universities cannot afford to ignore customer demand. Given the example set by retail leaders like Amazon and Nordstom, students expect a similar service infrastructure to be provided by their chosen postsecondary institution. More...

By Dennis Jones - EvoLLLution. Among policy makers, there’s a mistaken sense that the attainment goals they’ve espoused can in fact be achieved based almost solely on savings in institutional operations. While improvements in institutional operations and productivity are key to this, at least in most states, there’s absolutely no way to reach those goals without increased investment. More...