IT Funding and Spending

2026 EDUCAUSE Workforce Report: Can Higher Education Break the Cycle of Reactivity?

Mon, 01 Jun 2026 15:27:25 Z

The 2026 EDUCAUSE Workforce Report examines how resource constraints are creating a cycle of reactivity across higher education and explores the impact of rising workloads, staffing challenges, and limited resources on teams, institutions, and workforce sustainability.

2026 EDUCAUSE Workforce Report: How Teams Are Adapting to AI, External Pressures, and Strategic Change

Mon, 01 Jun 2026 15:27:25 Z

The 2026 EDUCAUSE Workforce Report examines how higher education technology and data professionals are adapting to rapid change driven by artificial intelligence (AI), financial pressures, and shifting institutional priorities. It focuses on how teams—not just institutions—are absorbing and responding to these changes.

2025 EDUCAUSE Cybersecurity and Privacy Workforce in Higher Education

Thu, 29 May 2025 22:14:31 Z

This report examines the cybersecurity and privacy workforce in higher education and identifies challenges and priorities.

2025 EDUCAUSE Horizon Report | Teaching and Learning Edition

Wed, 30 Apr 2025 16:49:40 Z

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

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.

The Cybersecurity and Privacy Workforce in Higher Education, 2023

Fri, 03 Nov 2023 15:04:30 Z

This report examines the cybersecurity and privacy workforce in higher education.

The Technology Workforce in Higher Education, 2022

Fri, 12 Aug 2022 16:21:11 Z

One of the most salient consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic on higher education has been a reduction and reorganization of the workforce.

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.

2021 EDUCAUSE Horizon Report^® | Teaching and Learning Edition

Wed, 26 Apr 2023 17:08:06 Z

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

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.

Learning and Teaching Reimagined: A New Dawn for Higher Education?

Thu, 05 Nov 2020 16:31:22 Z

This JISC report is the result of a five-month higher education initiative to understand the response to COVID-19 and explore the future of digital learning and teaching.

ACUHO-I State of ResNet 2019 Report

Tue, 09 Jul 2019 21:46:30 Z

The 2019 research findings, with 351 responding higher education administrators, bring light to the adversities, strategies, and solutions of providing high-performance net-works in residence halls and campus-wide.

2017 EDUCAUSE Core Data Service (CDS) Benchmarking Report

Thu, 29 Nov 2018 21:08:25 Z

The 2017 Core Data Service (CDS) Benchmarking Report summarizes key findings from the CDS 2017 survey, provides a glimpse into the breadth of CDS data, and ultimately provides you with an opportunity to conduct your own benchmarking assessment. The customizable graphs contained within this report are meant to be used to assess your IT operation compared to that at peer institutions of similar size, control, or Carnegie Classification.

2018 ACUHO-I State of ResNet Report

Tue, 17 Jul 2018 15:56:57 Z

This research, which includes data from over 312 higher education institutions, is designed to help administrators and business officers address such issues as the unprecedented growth in bandwidth and connectivity demands, budget restrictions, policy considerations, staffing, and support.

Budget-Conscious Information Security Resources

Tue, 22 Dec 2015 17:38:07 Z

How can institutions that are just starting out with an information security program, or those with even more limited resources, successfully protect institutional IT resources and data?

2016 EDUCAUSE Core Data Service (CDS) Benchmarking Report

Tue, 11 Apr 2017 16:05:33 Z

The 2016 Core Data Service (CDS) Benchmarking Report summarizes key findings from the CDS 2016 survey, provides a glimpse into the breadth of CDS data, and ultimately provides you with an opportunity to conduct your own benchmarking assessment.

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.

Core Data Service Trends Almanacs, 2011-14 Data

Thu, 15 Jun 2017 19:12:02 Z

These almanacs summarize Core Data Service trend data from the 2011, 2012, 2013, and 2014 surveys for a subset of responding institutions. The almanacs enable a quick assessment of the state of IT financials, staffing, and services, and other key IT service areas in higher education.