The higher education IT organization will over the next five years focus on collaboration, personalization and professional development in order to create an experience that is more “inclusive, equitable and simplified,” according to a new strategic plan.
“We’re changing the Educause experience in many of the same ways you’re being asked to change on your campus,” CEO John O’Brien said Thursday to the thousands of IT staffers attending the organization’s annual conference here this week. “We’ll navigate this future together.”
The strategic plan is the clearest indication yet of in what direction O’Brien, who became CEO in June 2015, intends to take Educause. The organization has more than 2,300 member institutions and 300 corporate partners around the world, and its events, research and policy work help set the agenda for the role of IT in higher education.
