Brown needs a strategy, sound plan, and determined fund raising. He and others on the committee intend to drive the fund raising. Savage said that Brown needs more efficient operations to free up funds for its academic mission. Taylor hopes that the technology committee will look at the need for continued investment rather than one-time fixes until the next crisis. Higher education needs to treat technology as pervasive and integral, not peripheral and episodic.
Standardization is important.
Coordination and planning are important but do not eliminate the need for funding. Diebold espoused that resources need to be at the departmental level rather than the central level. Brown has to find the right mix. Newman believes Brown will become more centralized. Diebold challenged the notion that Brown competes with the likes of the British Open University.