Congrats to the newly hooded Dr. Ed Cabellon for recently completing his PhD. His dissertation topic caught my eye: Redefining student affairs through digital technology: a ten-year historiography of digital technology use by student affairs administrators. On his site, he has a new post on a technology implementation model for student affairs (SA), which is based upon his dissertation.
Author: adaptiman
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20 Miler with T159 Senior Scouts
This was a recent 20 mile hike with some of my senior scouts to complete their hiking merit badge. We had just crossed a dam through shallow water and they were taking a breather. Allyson was with us, but not in the picture. She vowed to never hike that far again. I’ll convince her otherwise.
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Austin takes a break on the AT, 2013
I love this picture! I took it the first year Austin and I hiked the AT together. We didn’t know much back then. He’s bigger now.
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Feeding the Beast
What is the nature of IT Governance (ITG) in Higher Ed? This is a question I, and most of the TAMU IT community, have been wrestling with for a long time. As a Tier One, TAMU has such a distributed model of power (read: budget and decision-making), that common methods of governance don’t really apply.
IT governance (ITG) is defined as the processes that ensure the effective and efficient use of IT in enabling an organization to achieve its goals. – Gartner
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Between the Cracks…
I recently got together with a few of my colleagues from around the country that work in Student Affairs IT (SAIT), like me. We talked about some of the conferences we had been to recently. The two most common were EDUCAUSE and NASPA. We all lamented the fact that, while each of these organizations have different things to offer our discipline, neither one is very well suited to our needs. In other words, we seem to have fallen between the cracks. EDUCAUSE is focused on Higher Ed IT, but with a decidedly academic computing focus, while NASPA focuses on the discipline of Student Affairs without really knowing how to be technical. All of the NASPA events focused on tech so far (e.g., NASPATech) are focused on social media, which is related to SAIT as a service but certainly is not the totality of what we do. (more…)