Foundations for Innovation: Information Technology at Indiana University

Abstract

This booklet describes information technology (IT) on the campuses of Indiana University, principally the infrastructure and services, but also some of the main academic programs in this area. IT is fundamental to the future of teaching, learning, and research in modern American research universities and it is the foundation for innovation, on which America's continuing global leadership in higher education depends. IT is a transforma­tional force of enormous power and potential for the whole of higher education, nationally and globally. In the pages that follow the wide-ranging scope and scale of IU' s uses and applications of IT are described. From this it will be clear that IT extends into nearly every part of the University and is a vital tool for academic leadership.