IBL News | San Antonio, Texas
The Educause Top 10 ranking for 2025 on higher education technology stated that rebuilding trust in institutions lies in building a competent and caring institution and leveraging the fulcrum of leadership.
Susan Grajek, Vice President of Partnerships, Communities, and Research at Educause, stated during her keynote presentation at the nonprofit organization’s annual event in San Antonio, Texas, “We need to lean into uncertainty.” She added: “Choosing hope will increase trust.”
These are the ten trends:
- #1. The Data-Empowered Institution: Using data, analytics, and AI to increase student success, win the enrollment race, increase research funding, and reduce inefficiencies
- #2. Administrative Simplification: Streamlining and modernizing processes, data, and technologies
- #3. Smoothing the Student Journey: Using technology and data to improve and personalize student services
- #4. A Matter of Trust: Advancing institutional strategies to safeguard privacy and secure institutional data
- #5. The CIO Challenge: Leading digital strategy and operations in an era of frequent leadership transitions, resource limitations, societal unrest, and rapid technology advancements
- #6. Institutional Resilience: Contributing to institutional efforts to prepare for and address a growing number and range of risks
- #7. Faster, Better, AND Cheaper: Using technology to personalize services, automate work, and increase agility
- #8. Putting People First: Helping staff adapt, upskill, and thrive in an era of rapid change and ongoing digital advancements
- #9. Taming the Digital Jungle: Updating and unifying digital infrastructure and governance to increase institutional efficiency and effectiveness
- #10. Supportable, Sustainable, and Affordable: Developing an institutional strategy for new technology investments, pilots, policies, and uses.Building Bridges, Not Walls: Increasing digital access for students while also safeguarding their privacy and data protection
