Spring 2009 CIO Summit
Technology Law, Policy, and Economics

June 10-12, 2009 - Salishan Resort, Oregon


Overview | Agenda | Travel/Hotel

Wednesday, June 10, 2009


3:00 - 5:00 p.m. | Executive/Finance Committee Meeting | Sitka Room

5:30 p.m. | Reception | Cedar Tree Room

6:30 p.m. | 2009 Hugi Excellence Awards and Outstanding Project Award Presentations | Cedar Tree Room

7:30 p.m. | Dinner | Cedar Tree Room

Thursday, June 11, 2009


7:00 - 8:30 a.m. | Buffet Breakfast | Gallery Room

8:30 - 10:00 a.m. | Facing the Fiscal Crisis Head On
David Todd, Associate Vice President and CIO, University of Vermont | Cedar Tree Room

Virtually all colleges and universities are encountering unprecedented financial pressures. How these pressures impact IT organizations - and how they are best addressed - may differ from one institution to the next. The purpose of this session is to identify specific fiscal challenges faced by IT and discuss creative strategies for addressing them. David Todd, Associate Vice President and CIO at the University of Vermont, will describe some of the key issues and opportunities confronting his institution and then lead a round-table discussion of challenges, opportunities, and solutions faced by NWACC institutions.

10:00 a.m. | Break

10:30 - Noon | Economic and Other Factors are Transforming the Academic CIO
Philip Long, Chief Information Officer and Director of Information Technology Services, Yale University | Cedar Tree Room

Most CIOs came to higher education to apply information technology to enhance teaching & learning and propel
cutting edge research. Innovation has customarily been a core element of the job. In recent years the work of CIOs in higher education seems to have become less about innovation and more about "stewardship" of ASP, cloudsourced or other packaged or managed solutions - as Nicholas Carr, Adrian Sannier, and
others have argued. While many forces contribute, the current
economic situation is greatly accelerating the pace of these changes. In this session, Philip Long will reflect on changes in the role of the academic CIO and then lead a round-table discussion on how IT leadership is changing at NWACC institutions in response to economic and other factors.

Noon - 1:00 p.m. | Lunch | Gallery Room

1:00 - 2:00 p.m. | NWACC Board Meeting (Board members only) | Cedar Tree Room

The afternoon and evening are free for social activities and dinner on your own.


Friday, June 12, 2009


7:00 - 8:30 a.m. | Buffet Breakfast | Gallery Room

8:30 - 10:00 a.m. | Does the Fiscal Crisis Mean Postponing "Green IT" Initiatives?
Wendell Brase, Vice Chancellor for Administrative and Business Services, University of California, Irvine | Cedar Tree Room

The interest in reducing IT's carbon footprint is peaking at the worst possible time to finance energy-saving measures that require a capital investment. Are there low cost, behavioral, or high-payback actions that can make a dent on IT's greenhouse gas impact in the short-term while we plan for more capital-intensive solutions when economic circumstances improve?

10:00 - 10 :30 a.m. | Break

10:30 am - 12:00 p.m. | From Nuts to Soup: A Menu of IT Policy Issues
Tracy Mitrano, Director of Computer Policy and Law Program, Cornell University | Cedar Tree Room

Should the Obama administration create a new federal agency devoted to the Internet? What's in the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 for higher education? What does my institution have to do to comply with the peer to peer provisions of the Higher Education Opportunity Act of 2008? Is my institution violating any laws if it outsources its mail service to Google or Microsoft? What steps do I take to appropriately preserve the privacy and security of electronic data?

If these questions are on your minds, or you are open to sharing thoughts and discussing new ideas, let's talk about them in the session that begins with the premise that even though some days it may feel like everything has gone nuts, it is time to make soup!