Research

2025 EDUCAUSE Horizon Report | Data and Analytics Edition

Fri, 26 Sep 2025 17:52:13 Z

The 2025 EDUCAUSE Horizon Report profiles the trends and key technologies and practices shaping the future of data and analytics, and envisions a number of scenarios and implications for that future.

EDUCAUSE Comments: Proposed CUI Rules for Federal Contracting

Wed, 19 Mar 2025 13:21:51 Z

On March 17, 2025, EDUCAUSE, COGR, the American Council on Education (ACE), the Association of American Universities (AAU), and the Association of Public and Land-grant Universities (APLU) submitted comments in response to proposed regulations for incorporating controlled unclassified information (CUI) marking, handling, and security requirements into federal contracting rules and processes.

Meeting the Climate: Emergency University Information Infrastructure for Researching Wicked Problems

Fri, 14 Mar 2025 14:48:17 Z

This report examines the role of research universities in addressing complex societal challenges. It focuses on climate change, which is best characterized as a “wicked” problem.

2025 EDUCAUSE AI Landscape Study: Into the Digital AI Divide

Wed, 05 Feb 2025 17:58:09 Z

This report summarizes higher education’s experiences related to AI strategy and leadership, policies and guidelines, use cases, the higher education workforce, and the institutional digital divide.

CNI 2035 Scenarios: AI-Influenced Futures in the Research Environment

Mon, 06 May 2024 18:10:45 Z

The Association of Research Libraries (ARL) and the Coalition for Networked Information (CNI) have chosen to apply scenario planning to imagine a future influenced by artificial intelligence (AI) and to explore the range of uncertainty associated with AI in the research and knowledge ecosystem.

EDUCAUSE Comments: CMMC 2.0 Regulations

Wed, 28 Feb 2024 21:04:48 Z

EDUCAUSE joined COGR, AAU, APLU, and ACE in submitting comments to the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) on February 26, 2024, regarding the DoD’s second-round of proposed regulations to implement its Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification (CMMC) Program.

2024 EDUCAUSE AI Landscape Study

Mon, 05 Feb 2024 16:07:24 Z

This report summarizes higher education’s experiences related to AI strategic planning and readiness, policies and procedures, workforce, and its future.

Educational Technology Research in Higher Education: New Considerations and Evolving Goals

Thu, 26 Oct 2023 16:37:41 Z

This report highlights the ways in which educational technology can be effectively harnessed to engage students in different ways, meeting them where their preferences are, and promoting skills that will help them in the workforce.

2023 EDUCAUSE Horizon Action Plan: Generative AI

Thu, 14 Sep 2023 17:39:55 Z

This report describes an ideal future for generative AI in higher education, drawing on the insights of a small panel of teaching and learning higher education experts, focusing on a 10-year timescale.

EDUCAUSE Comments: Possible NSF Development of a Research Security and Integrity Information Sharing and Analysis Organization (RSI-ISAO)

Fri, 30 Jun 2023 14:17:03 Z

EDUCAUSE provided a response to the National Science Foundation (NSF) on June 27, 2023, regarding its request for comments on the possible development of a research security and integrity information sharing and analysis organization (RSI-ISAO).

EDUCAUSE Comments: NIST Research Cybersecurity Resource Development

Fri, 30 Jun 2023 13:57:19 Z

On June 27, 2023, EDUCAUSE submitted a cover letter and comments to the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) in response to its request for input on the resources that it could develop to support research cybersecurity at colleges and universities.

EDUCAUSE Comments: Draft Cybersecurity Provisions for Research Security Programs

Wed, 14 Jun 2023 22:16:58 Z

EDUCAUSE submitted comments to the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) on June 5, 2023, concerning the draft requirements for research security programs under National Security Presidential Memorandum 33 (NSPM-33).

Artificial Intelligence Index Report 2023

Thu, 06 Apr 2023 20:48:59 Z

The AI Index is an independent initiative at the Stanford Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence (HAI), led by the AI Index Steering Committee, an interdisciplinary group of experts from across academia and industry.

Research Computing and Data CG Open Meeting

Wed, 08 Sep 2021 18:53:39 Z

Higher Education Regulated Research Workshop Series: A Collective Perspective

Mon, 12 Jul 2021 19:03:31 Z

After an eight month effort concluding in June of 2021, 155 participants from 84 research institutions from across the United States gathered in six facilitated, NSF-sponsored workshop sessions to determine if coming together as a community could improve the support of individual programs to secure regulated data in research involving the Department of Defense or health sciences.

Research Computing Programs: Impact of Organizational Structure and Placement within the University

Mon, 26 Apr 2021 14:45:40 Z

This month's open call will be a panel discussion on how research computing support is situated within an organization, and what impact that creates.

Machine Learning’s Growing Role in Research

Wed, 10 Mar 2021 17:57:47 Z

This study explores the practices IT departments are utilizing to support faculty and researchers at their institutions who are exploring how machine learning can improve their research.

How to Demonstrate the Value of Research Computing and Data

Tue, 09 Mar 2021 23:05:20 Z

This presentation uses examples of KPIs and metrics that can be helpful in understanding the impact of Research Computing and Data services on research.

2021 EDUCAUSE Horizon Report® | Information Security Edition

Wed, 05 Jul 2023 16:33:24 Z

The 2021 EDUCAUSE Horizon Report profiles key trends and emerging technologies and practices shaping the future of information security, and envisions a number of scenarios and implications for that future.

Effective Cybersecurity for Research

Mon, 20 Jun 2022 22:01:43 Z

This paper describes an approach to cybersecurity for research that is showing great promise in breaking the security versus research impasse. A product of years of effort at Indiana University, it focuses exclusively on the researcher and the research mission, reduces the cybersecurity and compliance burden on the researcher, and aims to secure all research.