Wednesday, November 19, 2008
Building: Trippet  & Hays Hall

11:00

Campus Tour -- Meet in Trippet Hall lobby

12:00--12:45

Trippet Hall

Lunch, Welcome - Jeff Leichty

12:45 -- 1:30

Trippet Hall

Introductions -- New Faces

Facilitator: David Fowler

1:30 -- 1.45

Break

1:45 -- 2:30

Hays Hall Room 319

Campus Communication Spaces

LMS, CMS, Portal, Web 2.0, Email, Document Management, Texting, ERP:  How many vendors are trying to be your one stop shop?  How will you and your campus constituents decide where to live and communicate in the converging digital world?  We will examine the trends of technical convergence and how it will impact all of our decision making in future.

 Facilitator: Lorne Oke, Indiana Wesleyan

2:30 -- 3:00

Collaboration Time

3:00 -- 4:15

Hays Hall Room 319

Academic IT Relationship

A panel discussion with CAO's on academic/IT relationships.  How do we communicate expectations of service, faculty development, and governance?  The panel will help us understand what they need from IT in order to foster advances for the academic participants in the university.

 Facilitator: Lorne Oke, Indiana Wesleyan

4:15 -- 4:30

Break

4:30 -- 5:30

Hays Hall Room 319

Academics and Technology -- Aligning vision, planning, priorities and problem solving

You will hear brief presentations by CAO/CIO teams on how alignment in academic/IT visioning, planning and priority setting is achieved on their respective campus.  We will then challenge the teams to spontaneously work through several problems that commonly confound the best of plans.

 Facilitator: Bob Hodge, ICI

5:30 -- 6:30

Trippet Hall

Dinner & Break

6:30 -- 7:30

Trippet Hall

"Popcorn" Topics

How many topics can be covered in an hour?  We'll be talking about the 'buzz' of IT topics in higher education and limiting the discussion to just a few minutes each to keep the conversation rolling.

 Facilitator: Scott Kincaid, Butler University

8:00

Adjourn

Thursday November 20, 2008

Building: Hays Hall

7:30

Hays Hall 104

Continental Breakfast

8:30 -- 8:40

Hays Hall 104

Good Morning 

Jeff Leichty -- Agenda/Announcements

8:40 -- 10:00

Hays Hall 104

"LMS Conversions:  Stories from the Trenches"

For a variety of reasons, many schools find themselves switching or considering switching from their initial Learning Management System to a new one. Our panel, which includes representatives from DePauw, Franklin, Goshen and Wabash will share out of their own experiences in making the switch and lead the group in discussing everything from the impetus to switch, the selection process, implementation, switchover and faculty retraining and support issues.  

Facilitators: Michael Shearer,  Goshen College
 

10:00 -- 10:30

Break

10:30 -- 12:00

Hays Hall 104

Benchmarking IT

Can the use of higher ed survey tools help to build a case for change in campus IT structure?  This session explores several survey instruments and how various metrics can be used to drive IT decision making.

Facilitator: Don Fluke, Grace College

12:00 -- 1:15

Hays Hall 104

Working Lunch --

ICI Update---------Bob Hodge

1:15 -- 1:35

Steering Committee Briefing