In Focus

A CIO's blog post prompts reflections on why the technology industry no longer puts academe on a pedestal.

As the learning-management giant rolls out a major upgrade and says it is embracing transparency, a key player discusses the company's agenda in a podcast interview.

UC-Davis announces that moving its faculty and staff to Gmail would carry untenable privacy and security risks.

At annual gathering of campus technology officials, debate continues over how much they should outsource and whom they should trust.

Two-thirds of public institutions report reductions, ending years in which information technology costs grew steadily.

With more students auto-forwarding e-mail to private accounts, even colleges that have not outsourced e-mail find it difficult to keep correspondence on their own servers.

A university and a community college are first institutions to undertake large-scale installations of administrative software created by consortium, open to all. Is industry shake-up imminent?

Colleges that helped provide students with computers were once celebrated. But as budgets tighten and more students come with their own machines, institutions are rethinking the value of laptop requirements.

Colleges' information technology budgets aren't immune to the economic downturn, and some CIOs see opportunity to streamline priorities and recast their mission.

In what could be the next significant shift for social networking in higher education, an upcoming Facebook app will help colleges track students, alumni and potential applicants.