Capturing the Rewards of Modernization
When establishing a modernization program, how can you focus your projects, teams, and executives on outcomes that matter? Most major software projects have tactical goals, such as completing the implementation on time and on budget, without establishing the outcome-related goals that focus on the impact of the change. One way to create and track these […]
Modern Campus Acquires Signal Vine and Augusoft
UPDATED 01/21/22 with information regarding Augusoft acquisition. In the span of one week, Modern Campus announced its acquisition of Signal Vine, the conversational text-messaging solution, and Augusoft, the noncredit course management platform, its latest in a series of rapid acquisitions in the last year. The announcements for the Signal Vine and Augusoft acquisitions outline most […]
Women in Tech: Kendra Strode
Introducing Kendra Strode, Director of IT Support and Outreach at Rollins College. Listen to Kendra talk about her unique career path from a student worker in IT support to her recent role, and learn what advice she has for women who may be taking their first big role in IT.
Ellucian On-Trend with CampusLogic Acquisition
By acquiring CampusLogic, Ellucian has made a solid addition to its portfolio, bringing significant potential benefits to its customers. The acquisition adds product assets to augment current offerings and architectural assets to provide technology and staffing to accelerate Ellucian’s transition to SaaS. The move is interesting but not surprising. With this transaction, Ellucian extends its […]
What Higher Ed CIOs Should Know About Preferred Names and Pronouns
Preferred name and pronoun use has been on higher education’s radar for a while now, but interest—particularly in technology support—has increased in the last several years.1 Many of today’s students use preferred names exclusively across public and private settings. Although their reasons vary, the practice is closely associated with transitions in gender identity. Gender-neutral pronoun […]
Working Together for the Higher Education Community
As we look towards the new year, the needs of the higher education community will continue to focus on how to serve our students. The answers to the question, “how do we serve best serve our students?” are as vast and diverse as the student population itself. Each college or university has undoubtedly worked to […]
The Top 20 (x3) Tambellini Resources from 2021
Each year, Tambellini Group delivers expert research and resources relevant to CIOs and IT leaders in higher education. As 2021 comes to an end, Tambellini Group is grateful for another successful year. However, success would not be possible without you, our members. With current and prospective members in mind, we’ve highlighted our top 20 resources […]
Women in Tech: Alison Robinson
Alison Robinson, Associate Vice President and Deputy CIO, Division of Information Technology Services at California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo, shares her story of how she became a leader in higher ed technology and how one blinking, green cursor may have been formative in her technology career path.
The Jazz Musician as CIO: Creativity in IT Leadership
“Whether it’s at NASA or a university system level job, a CIO wants to be able to expand the scope of our technology and systems to impact the largest number of people.” In this month’s Top of Mind Podcast, host Jazz musician and CIO for the Georgia Tech Foundation, Dwight Dozier, joins the Top of […]
The Ohio State University Walks Away from Workday Student
Tambellini learned on Wednesday, December 1st, that The Ohio State University (Ohio State) has decided not to move forward with Workday Student at this time. Ohio State’s statement includes an acknowledgment that their implementation of Workday’s Finance and Human Capital Management (HCM) products has left significant system and process optimization work for the school to […]
