Higher Ed Insights
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Higher Ed Insights writes about technology decision-making in colleges and universities. From legacy system challenges to cloud migration strategies, we cover the topics that keep IT leaders and administrators up at night.
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Students Already Know Their University's Software Is Broken. AI-Generated.
Picture two meetings happening at the same university on the same afternoon. In one room, a group of students is venting about the registration portal. It crashed twice during add/drop week, nobody could figure out where to find their financial aid status, and the mobile app requires logging into three separate systems just to see a class schedule. In another room, the CIO is presenting the annual technology report to senior leadership, and the student portal is listed as a strength.
By Higher Ed Insightsabout 2 hours ago in Education
What Nobody Tells You About Implementing University Software. AI-Generated.
In 2022, Ohio State University made a decision that stunned higher education technology circles. It abandoned its high-profile effort to implement Workday Student, a cloud-based student information system, after years of work and what outside analysts estimated to be tens of millions of dollars in sunk costs. The software was not defective. Workday is one of the most recognized names in enterprise technology. The problem was something harder to fix than a bug in the code.
By Higher Ed Insights13 days ago in Education
Why Choosing the Wrong Student Information System Can Set a University Back by a Decade. AI-Generated.
The Decision Nobody Talks About Until It Goes Wrong There is a technology decision sitting at the center of nearly every university in the country that most people outside of higher education have never heard of. It does not make headlines the way cybersecurity breaches do. It does not generate the kind of public conversation that AI in the classroom does. But when it goes wrong, it can set an institution back by a decade, cost tens of millions of dollars to unwind, and affect the daily experience of every student, faculty member, and administrator on campus.
By Higher Ed Insights16 days ago in Education
