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Will Open Source Software Become An Important Institutional Strategy in Higher Education? With several well-resourced and highly active open source initiatives in the higher education community many are asking what it all means. In this special executive briefing report A-HEC summarizes our initial background research. This paper covers the degree and reasons for success of open source in the larger global market, looks at the state of progress and fit within higher education, and then addresses tracking of the future and institutional strategy considerations.
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Improving Institutional Performance
The Necessary Role of IT-Enabled Innovation.
In this evidence-based research report, Bill Graves, Professor Emeritus from the University of North Carolina and Senior Vice President for Academic Strategy at SunGard Collegis, details specific strategies for creating a truly innovative approach to information technology that has impact on institutional performance. Functional and even high performance IT are necessary, but not sufficient. This paper describes how IT can improve academic outcomes, while simultaneously addressing institutional operational and cost objectives, linking institutional performance obligations, indicators, and strategies. Included are over 180 links to reports and articles highlighting performance obligations and pressures.
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Fostering Quality by Recognizing and Promoting Teaching Scholarship. Do our colleges and universities focus enough on providing excellent instruction at all levels? While pioneering work from more than fifteen years ago by Ernest Boyer pointed to the need to provide other avenues of scholarship besides pure research, how far have we come in the scholarship of teaching? In this article, Jim Coffman, former provost of Kansas State University shares the details on a ten-year old program at K-State.
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The Role of Entrepreneurship Programs in the Community College. With roughly 75 percent of all net new jobs in this country being created by small business and entrepreneurs, are America's colleges doing enough to prepare these new leaders? Learn about the potential impact of entrepreneurial programs on our nation's economy. Dr. Andrew Scibelli, president emeritus of Springfield Technical Community College, provides insights to help you consider whether your institution should partake in serving students, industry, and community by providing entrepreneurship education that spurs small business growth.
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A Successful Private College Transformation. Dr. Authur Lendo, President of private Peirce College located in Philadelphia, founded in1865, describes how  Peirce is serving undergraduate students nationwide through high quality online programs. Peirce's innovations include the same quality experience for all students regardless of delivery mode, 100% involvement from full-time faculty, a very successful program advisor function, and a chief operating officer overseeing all academic functions.
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Asynchronous Online Learning Generates Myriad Policy Questions. Download and read a companion policy paper presented at the Oxford Round Table by Dr. Lendo, entitled "Asynchronous Online Learning Generates Myriad Policy Questions."  It is one of the most concise and complete overviews of the real and profound impact on higher education of the convergence of Internet technology with the compelling market and social needs created by a rapidly growing adult learning population.
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.An A-HEC Leadership interview with Michael Goldstein, the leading expert on public/private partnerships in higher education and attorney with Washington DC law firm Dow, Lohnes, and Albertson.  This interview explores the developments, trends, and implications of public/private partnerships, which may become an important way to spur capacity development, a critical need in higher education today.
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