Large or small, rich or poor, most campuses are struggling with their own versions of these questions. Every few years brings an expensive technological revolution. Rapid change of technology and society's increasing reliance on it is the bogeyman of higher education planning and budgeting. Any budgeting or cost-control effort requires an institution to first identify IT expenses. Unfortunately, this is easier said than done.
Few institutions can provide a reliable figure for their total campus IT spending.
To track and control IT expenditures, institutions must engage in a detailed planning process and develop a thorough and realistic financial plan. He coauthored the CEO Forum on Education and Technology's report on public school computer use.