Scholarship News

Report sales and corporate donations have enabled CHECS to endow two annual scholarships:

1.  The Dr. Trudy Abramson Scholarship Fund awarding $1,000 a year to a higher-education technology leader pursuing a doctoral degree at Nova Southeastern University in Florida. Read more

2. The Dr. Polley Ann McClure Scholarship awarding $1,000 a year to an undergraduate student in the Management Information Systems program in the McCombs School of Business at the University of Texas Austin.

2012 Reports

2012 CIO Roles and Responsibility Report
The Higher Education Chief Information Officer Roles and Effectiveness report, over 80 pages, contains a wide variety of information.  This information includes but is not limited to the demographics of the CIO, their perception of their effectiveness, their opinion on the attributes and experiences necessary for a higher education CIO, and their plans for the future. The report provides longitudinal data on a variety of questions to show trend data. The Higher Education Chief Information Officer Roles and Effectiveness study is a longitudinal study of the senior IT executive in higher education. The study was begun in 2003 and has been conducted nine times since then. CIOs from the United States and internationally are surveyed about a wide variety of topics. The institution management teams (other VPs and Presidents) of those CIOs are then given a survey containing many of the same questions that the CIO answered.  This two step process provides us with a way to compare CIO and IMT perceptions.  In addition survey information from the technology leader (those in the next organizational layer down from the CIO) is also included in the CIO report and provides yet a third perspective on questions that are very important for the higher education CIO. The report provides longitudinal data on a variety of questions to show trend data.  

- Available for $35 for an individual or $100 for a higher-education institution site license. The site license allows you to share the report with every employee at the institution.

2012 CIO Report Options:

2013 CIO report $35.00 USD2013 CIO report and Site License $100.00 USD

2012 Higher Ed Tech Leader Report
The Higher Education Technology Leadership (TL) report, over 60 pages, contains information on those people most likely to succeed the higher education CIO in the future.  The report includes, but is not limited to the demographics of the TL, their career plans, activities they are undertaking to prepare for that future, and their perspective on the CIO job. The report also contains opinions on the CIO job from the CIO and the IMT. The Higher Education Technology Leadership study is a longitudinal study of the individual in the next organizational layer down from the higher education CIO.  The study was begin in 2009 and has been conducted five times since then. The report provides longitudinal data on a variety of questions to show trend data.  

Available for $35 for an individual or $100 for a higher-education institution site license. The site license allows you to share the report with every employee at the institution.

2012 TL report options:

2013 Tech Leader report $35.00 USD2013 Tech Leader report and Site License $100.00 USD

More about the 2012 reports – As in the past years, response rates for both studies were excellent. More than 400 chief information officers from different institutions throughout the United States and from other countries responded and the Technology Leadership report received its highest response rate to date.

The CIO report continues to build on a unique two-part survey to gather information about higher-education CIOs’ effectiveness, attributes and how the management team views CIOs. CIOs from throughout the world are invited to participate; of those who do, their management teams are invited to participate in a second survey. The data collected is presented in aggregate, creating a comprehensive, in depth view of today’s higher-education CIO.

This year’s reports include a foreword written by EDUCAUSE’s Susan Grajek, Vice President for Data, Research and Analytics.

As in the past, individuals who participated in the research received a complimentary copy of the report pertaining to the study in which they participated. If you participated but did not receive your copy of the report, please let us know.

Resume Review

We are now offering this critical service* to help technology leaders refine and define their strengths, attributes and achievements. A resume may be the most important document which represents the sum of your career. The job search should not be the test for how it represents you. Using more than 30 years experience as a leader and more than a decade as a technology executive, Dr. Wayne Brown will review your resume for substance, style and the appropriateness key for a senior information technology role.
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