Magazine highlights Purdue's IT management
Gerry McCartney, Purdue's vice president for information technology, chief information officer and Olga Oesterle England Professor of Information Technology, is shown on the cover of EdTech magazine.
Universities across the nation are changing their IT organizations both in order to deal with new economic realities and to take advantage of new technologies. This month, Purdue is being recognized as a national leader in university IT management with a cover story in EdTech magazine.
The article, "Survival Strategies," states, "Facing historic budget pressures, colleges and universities turn to collaboration and consolidation to manage IT effectively."
The magazine not only points to the Purdue’s Campus IT Plan, which outlines the reorganization, but also highlights cooperative efforts under way at Purdue, such as the community cluster program, which this summer will launch the third supercomputer built at Purdue in three years with the help of cooperating faculty members.
The August-September issue of EdTech magazine also looks at IT changes under way at Clemson University, Indiana University, and the online DeVry University.
The article can be viewed at www.edtechmag.com/higher/updates/survival-strategies.html.
