Education Policy, Business and Technology

Creating a Digitally Enabled University

Campus Technology: The title "chief innovation officer" is still much more common in the private sector than in higher education, but at some universities the "I" in CIO is starting to stand for both innovation and information.

Phil Ventimiglia, who became Georgia State University's chief innovation officer two years ago, said that before he took the job he carefully evaluated the university's readiness to create such a role. "I have had the experience of trying to be that one person leading the charge and breaking through the wall and usually you just get bloody," he said. But after meeting with campus executives, he was convinced that Georgia State's culture was open to innovation and was "struggling with the how, not the what."

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