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This year has been full of new opportunities & challenges for all of us in higher ed. As we look toward 2026, we are thankful to have amazing members & partners along for the ride. Let's take a breath & regroup before we hit the ground running next year & continue our mission.
Thank you EDUCAUSE
December 22, 2025 at 8:00 PM
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In 2026, it’s going to be all about human connection.

In the EDUCAUSE Showcase, Strategize Your Strategy, we look forward to 2026 & how institutions can join together different people and disparate parts, find common purpose, & agree on what matters most & how best to move forward.

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"The 2026 EDUCAUSE Top 10 reminds us that it won't be a silver-bullet solution--or even artificial intelligence (AI)--that will get our institutions to the other side of our present moment." Mark McCormack and the 2025-2026EDUCAUSE Top 10 Panel, "2026 EDUCAUSE Top 10: Making Connections," EDUCAUSE Review
December 19, 2025 at 9:30 PM
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Is your team looking tired? As a higher ed leader, it’s up to you to spot the signs of change fatigue.

In the EDUCAUSE Showcase, Strategize Your Strategy, we introduce the Energy-Commitment Model to guide interventions that restore capacity & sustain change efforts in higher ed.

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4 Implications for Leaders Addressing Change Fatigue 1. Watch for the behavioral signals. 2. Don't confuse change fatigue with resistance, and watch for emerging cynicism. 3. Account for the high energy costs of structural changes. 4. Bridge the perception gap. Tacy Holliday and Joseph Drasin, "Identifying Change Fatigue in Teams: Insights from the Energy-Committment Model," EDUCAUSE Review
December 16, 2025 at 8:02 PM
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Data & analytics serve as a critical foundation for strategy, decision-making, & student success. The future of institutional effectiveness, student success, & innovation will hinge on how we adapt.

The EDUCAUSE Showcase, Strategize your Strategy, has what you need to stay on top.

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6 Key Practices to Transform Data and Analytics into Higher Ed 1. Build Institutional Capacity for Data Literacy 2. AI-powered Assistants 3. AI-powered Decision Intelligence 4. Mixed Methods Research for Student Learning Data 5. Data Mesh Architecture 6. Federated Data Governance Jenay Rober, Nicole Muscanell, and Kim Arnold, 2025 EDUCAUSE Horizon Report, Data and Analytics Edition
December 15, 2025 at 6:31 PM
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2026 is about human connection

Alongside their nurturing of institutions' tech, leaders will be nurturing connections between people

In the EDUCAUSE Showcase, Strategize Your Strategy, we look at how institutions can find common purpose, agree on what matters & how to move forward

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"The 2026 EDUCAUSE Top 10 reminds us that it won't be a silver-bullet solution--or even artificial intelligence (AI)--that will get our institutions to the other side of our present moment." Mark McCormack and the 2025-2026 EDUCAUSE Top 10 Panel "2026 EDUCAUSE Top 10: Making Connections," EDUCAUSE Review
December 12, 2025 at 7:30 PM
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Whether you're an employer searching for the right person to fill a position or a job seeker in need of a new career, the EDUCAUSE Career Center can help you find what you need in higher ed technology. The EDUCAUSE Career Center is open to the entire community—members & nonmembers.

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EDUCAUSE Career Center Higher education jobs and candidates jobs.educause.edu
December 11, 2025 at 6:45 PM
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Are your staff looking tired lately? Change fatigue is becoming a quiet crisis in higher ed.

In the EDUCAUSE Showcase, Strategize Your Strategy, we introduce the Energy-Commitment Model for guiding interventions that restore capacity & sustain change efforts.

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5 Behavioral Signals of Change Fatigue 1. Errors and Oversights 2. Last-Minute Absences 3. Slower Output 4. Fewer Ideas and Less Initiative 5. Collaboration Breakdown Tacy Holliday and Joseph Drasin, "Identifying Change Fatigue in Teams; Insights from the Energy-Committment Model," EDUCAUSE Review
December 10, 2025 at 7:03 PM
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Is your team looking tired? As a leader, it’s up to you to spot the signs of change fatigue so you can respond effectively.

In the EDUCAUSE Showcase, Strategize Your Strategy, we introduce the Energy-Commitment Model for interventions that restore capacity & sustain change efforts.

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4 implications for leaders addressing change fatigue 1. Watch for the behavioral signals. 2. Don't confuse change fatigue with resistance, and watch for emerging cynicism. 3. Account for the high energy costs of structural changes. 4. Bridge the perception gap. Tacy Holliday and Joseph Drasin, "Identifying Change Fatigue in Teams; Insights from the Energy-Committment Mode," EDUCAUSE Review
December 9, 2025 at 6:15 PM
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2026 will require institutions to join different people & disparate parts, find common purpose, & agree on what matters most

In the EDUCAUSE Showcase, Strategize Your Strategy, we explore how to sustain the change by intervening on fatigue, making connections, & adapting strategies

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Strategize Your Strategy Planning for the Year Ahead EDUCAUSE Showcase Series Explore
December 8, 2025 at 6:02 PM
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Colleges and universities can leapfrog from personalized to N-of-1 precision learning by modernizing their data architecture, building dynamic learner profiles, and adopting computed curriculum. Check out this new EDUCAUSE Review article!

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"If colleges and universities take up this challenge, they can offer something no algorithm can deliver: the transmission of knowledge and the guidance, trust, and ethical stewardship that turn learning into transformation." From Personalized to Precision Learning: Unlocking the Next Transformation in Higher Education by Tanya Gamby, David Kil, Rachel Koblic, Paul LeBlanc, Mihnea Moldoveneau and George Siemens
December 3, 2025 at 11:45 PM
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Ready to hit “play” on your teaching practice? Join educators from around the world to explore how AI + play can unlock deeper engagement, creativity, and learning in higher education.

Register for The Power of Play: Reimagining Higher Education in the Age of AI.

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EDUCAUSE Teaching and Learning Symposium The Power of Play: Reimagining Higher Education in the Age of AI December 8 and 10 12 - 3:30 pm ET Online
December 3, 2025 at 9:01 PM
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During periods of budget constraints, CIOs can use five actionable strategies to optimize IT costs, drive innovation, and ensure long-term institutional efficiency. Unlock hidden savings and reinvest for the future with help from 2025 EDUCAUSE Mission Partner, CDW.

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5 Proven Ways to Unlock Savings During Budget Challenges Sponsored Content
December 1, 2025 at 10:00 PM
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We know this year has been challenging for so many reasons. We couldn't be more grateful for the incredible EDUCAUSE community that has risen to every one of these challenges to support each other and higher education. Thank you for your passion, expertise, and willingness to help.
Thank you! EDUCAUSE
November 26, 2025 at 11:30 PM
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Learn how to use AI to boost engagement, rethink course design, & bring more practical, real-world tools into your teaching. You’ll walk away with fresh ideas, hands-on practice, & a clearer path for using AI in the classroom.

Teaching with AI runs Dec 2–11. Register today!

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"It was the most comprehensive and enlightening minicourse on AI that I have undertaken. It helped me so much and I am incorporating AI into my art criticism class this semester due to your course." EDUCAUSE Teaching with AI
November 20, 2025 at 12:01 AM
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CISOs have evolved into campus-wide strategic leaders. Their skills and experience make them ideally suited to step into CIO and other executive roles in higher education. Check out this new EDUCAUSE Review article to explore more!

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The CISO-to-CIO Pipeline: Leadership Skills that Scale by Valerie Vogel Skills that Scale EDUCAUSE Review Skills That Scale Successful CISOs build a leadership toolkit that positions them for broader roles. These competencies are relationship-driven, strategic, & human-centered, moving beyond the technical or risk-focused strengths that once defined the role. Here are those essential skills. Trusted advisor. CISOs earn trust by helping institutional leaders balance risk with strategic goals. They translate uncertainty into actionable insights that support mission-aligned, risk-informed decisions. Visionary change driver. Modern CISOs see across silos & prioritize collaboration. With a deep understanding of the academic, operational, & financial dynamics of higher education institutions, they make informed decisions that support the entire institution, not just the IT or security functions.
November 19, 2025 at 9:02 PM
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Step into the all-new EDUCAUSE New Managers Institute, where first-time and aspiring higher education managers embark on an immersive, high-energy journey to leadership success. Register today to join us December 9–11, Live Online.

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New Managers Institute An EDUCAUSE Institute December 9 - 11, 2025 Online Register Now
November 18, 2025 at 10:45 PM
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The EDUCAUSE Board of Directors, in consultation with the Nominations and Leadership Development Committee, is moving from elections to an appointment process for new board members.
EDUCAUSE Governance Update: Moving to an All-Appointed Board
The EDUCAUSE Board of Directors, in consultation with the Nominations and Leadership Development Committee, is moving from elections to an appointment
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November 18, 2025 at 6:31 PM
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EDUCAUSE thanks @cdw @jenzabar @gartner, EDUCAUSE Mission Partners, for sponsoring the 2026 EDUCAUSE Top 10 and their commitment to making meaningful connections in higher education.

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EDUCAUSE 2026 EDUCAUSE Top 10 Indvidual Capabilities, Collective Will Sponsored by CDW, Gartner, Jenzabar
November 14, 2025 at 11:30 PM
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Developing a framework for recognizing and responding to change fatigue as a current condition is a first step toward equipping leaders with tools to course-correct during change efforts, rather than evaluating energy and commitment only at the outset of an initiative.

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Fatigue is both widespread and has measurable and visible signals, but it is not always evenly recognized across an organization. Identifying Change Fatigue in Teams: Insights from the Energy-Commitment Model by Tacy Holliday and Joseph Drasin
November 14, 2025 at 11:15 PM
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Closing out the 2026 EDUCAUSE Top 10 is #1: Collaborative Cybersecurity. Let’s keep each other safe & secure! Building a cybersecurity culture of shared responsibility, end-user awareness & training, & improved access to security services & supports. Read the full report for more!

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EDUCAUSE 2026 EDUCAUSE Top 10: Making Connections #1 Collborative Cybersecurity EDUCAUSE 2026 EDUCAUSE Top 10: Making Connections #1 Collborative Cybersecurity Building a culture of shared responsibility, end-user awareness and training, and improved access to security services and supports. EDUCAUSE 2026 EDUCAUSE Top 10: Making Connections There are few other areas in higher education where connection across the institution is more urgently needed than in cybersecurity. EDUCAUSE 2026 EDUCAUSE Top 10: Making Connections Cybersecurity leaders are focusing on two important dimensions of this work in the year ahead. First, stakeholders’ security supports have to be integrated into their work and not merely added to it.
November 14, 2025 at 6:01 PM
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The 2026 EDUCAUSE Top 10 continues with #2: The Human Edge of AI. Humans aren’t going anywhere, afterall. This issue explores how higher ed can empower students, faculty, & staff to engage with artificial intelligence tools critically, creatively, & safely. Read the report for more!

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EDUCAUSE 2026 EDUCAUSE Top 10: Making Connections #2 The Human Edge of AI EDUCAUSE 2026 EDUCAUSE Top 10: Making Connections #2 The Human Edge of AI Empowering students, faculty, and staff to engage with artificial intelligence tools critically, creatively, and safely. EDUCAUSE 2026 EDUCAUSE Top 10: Making Connections More and more AI is becoming an individual capability rather than just, or even primarily, an institutional one. EDUCAUSE 2026 EDUCAUSE Top 10: Making Connections Perhaps nowhere are these encounters with AI more likely than in the classroom. AI offers seemingly limitless options for both faculty and students in designing and participating in their courses, engaging in teaching and learning, and demonstrating learning and student success.
November 13, 2025 at 6:15 PM
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CRM systems are essential for organizations looking to build stronger connections, streamline communications, & drive growth. Register for our next Demo Day Nov 20 to gain insights into the future of CRM tech, get answers, & hear how peers are leveraging CRMs to drive success.

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EDUCAUSE Demo Day Customer Relationship Management (CRM) Systems Thursday, November 20 Register at educause.edu
November 12, 2025 at 10:30 PM
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The 2026 EDUCAUSE Top 10 continues with #3: Data Analytics for Operational & Financial Insights. How can higher ed leverage data analytics to provide insights into spending, enrollment, & areas for cost savings & operational efficiencies? Read the Top 10 report to find out!

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EDUCAUSE 2026 Top 10: Making Connections #3 Data Analytics for Operational & Financial Insights: EDUCAUSE 2026 Top 10: Making Connections #3 Data Analytics for Operational & Financial Insights: Leveraging data analytics to provide insights into spending patterns, enrollment trends, and areas for cost savings and operational efficiencies. EDUCAUSE 2026 Top 10: Making Connections Financial pressures are intensifying for higher education institutions. EDUCAUSE 2026 Top 10: Making Connections For many institutions, there are two dimensions to the work of enriching their data insights and decision-making. More positively, institutions are seeking to better understand and agree on where they need to invest.
November 12, 2025 at 6:45 PM
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Microcredentials operate differently from traditional education, and they call for a more flexible, adaptable system to organize and classify learning objectives. Explore more in this EDUCAUSE Review article!

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My call to fellow practitioners is this: Interrogate your current taxonomy. Examine where it aligns—or doesn’t—with this model. And most importantly, keep pushing. Continue asking how we can better utilize microcredentials not just to label learning but to illuminate it. Beyond Bloom: A Radial Taxonomy for Microcredentials by Collin Sullivan
November 12, 2025 at 12:00 AM
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The online EDUCAUSE Annual Conference will feature sessions from the in-person conference in Nashville as well as exclusive new content that you will NOT want to miss! Join us November 12–13 online!

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"The best online conference I've ever attended. Schedule was easy to understand, easy to schedule, and joining each session was easy. The variety of courses was great." EDUCAUSE Annual Conference 2025 November 12 - 13 Online
November 11, 2025 at 11:01 PM