More colleges are outsourcing their information-technology functions, according to a report out today by Educause, a higher-education-technology group.
The report says that the percentage of institutions using external vendors to run various IT functions increased over the 2006 fiscal year, from 57 percent to nearly 62 percent, the third consecutive year there was a significant climb in this category.
The survey of 952 campuses measured campuses’ IT practices and policies for the 2006 fiscal year. —Andrea L. Foster
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