5 Tambellini Group Top of Mind Podcasts You Can’t Miss
According to podcasthosting.org, 55% of the US population has listened to a podcast, and 25% of US podcast listeners have a 4-year college degree (vs. 19% of US population). While the audience for podcasts is smaller than other mediums, the benefits for listeners are many—learning directly from experts, cutting down on screentime, and multitasking—to name a […]
A Look Back at the Most Read Resources for Higher Education Leaders
As the summer draws to a close and institutions and their staff prepare for a new semester, Tambellini Group looks back at the research topics and resources that were the most interesting to IT leaders in higher education for the first half of the year. With modern cloud system selections on the rise in finance, […]
Tambellini’s 7th Annual Technology Leadership Awards Take Center Stage
After nearly two years of rapid change and challenges, technology leaders across the country have made remarkable strides to advance their institutional missions. As the leading independent technology research and advisory firm dedicated exclusively to higher education, Tambellini Group is once again setting the stage to honor these incredible leaders, their teams, and their accomplishments. […]
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 […]
NYIT Builds Campus Wide Trust with the Help of Tambellini Membership
“There’s this deep appreciation for the fact that we reached out to somebody who is an expert. Now there is this level of trust that is deep and wide. Going forward with an implementation gave us an opportunity to quickly build trust across the campus. Something that would have taken years to do on our […]
Decreasing the Risk to Security Threats Starts with Sound Data Governance
As news breaks on increased cybersecurity threats, CIO leaders often find themselves filling in the gaps and dealing with the most pressing issues regarding data and the possibility of a breach. As noted in a recent article by Inside Higher Ed1, cybersecurity company BlueVoyant published research about the increase in attacks on higher education institutions from […]
The long game: Focusing on the Needs of Others
Milos Topic, Vice President for Information Technology and Chief Digital Officer at Grand Valley State University, spoke with Kathy Lang, Tambellini’s Vice President of Member Relationships, about solving problems by focusing on the needs of others first. Listen as Kathy and Milos discuss: Greatest influencers for change in learning environments, data analytics, and administrative systems The impact of […]
Rebuilding Student-Institution Trust after Online Proctoring
When higher education shut down due to COVID-19 in spring 2020, the capacity to provide quality remote instruction varied widely within and across institutions. Diverse and complex social, economic, and physical factors made the transition to distance learning easier for some students than for others. Not surprisingly, tensions between displaced students and their institutions emerged […]
The Iron Triangle of Ed-Tech
Last week, I had the privilege to participate in a panel discussion at the 23rd International Conference of the SAP Higher Education and Research User Group. Joined by Jose Escamilla (Tecnologico de Monterrey), Malcolm Woodfield (SAP), and moderator Jill Mikros (The Johns Hopkins University), the panel explored the impact of COVID on higher education pedagogy […]
Advancing DE&I Starts with U
On October 22, 2018, I was the first CIO to sign on to EDUCAUSE’s CIO’s Commitment on Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion. I was afforded this privilege because, as many now know, I was instrumental in the Commitment’s creation. Its adoption, however, is truly a credit to my many colleagues and friends who served on EDUCAUSE’s […]
