The document discusses some of the most pressing technology issues facing higher education today. It outlines security issues including data security, network security, and identity security. It also discusses the need for support of technology through advocacy, training, testing and maintenance. Finally, it addresses the need for information literacy and preparedness of students for the digital age through developing skills in finding, evaluating, synthesizing and creating knowledge from various media sources.

1. Change in the Wind: Higher Education and Technology Colleen Carmean February 2007 Arizona State University

2. The question: If I said I can give you a tool that will hugely increase your ability to retrieve and to convey complex ideas over space and time, and that would completely change your relationship to exchanging information with others at any distance both forward and backward in time, and if I said, you can have this but the consequences are going to be incredible political instability, the destruction of the self as you know and understand it, the robbing of your memory, not to mention all sorts of other costs, would it now make you think twice about whether or not you would want to embrace this? Would you: 1 . Think twice, step back and reflect on the consequences or 2. Plunge Forward and embrace consequences?

3. “ The technology, of course, is writing, and no other subsequent technology we’ve come up with has been as world-shattering and world-transforming as that.” Richard Powers National Book Award Winner 2006 for “The Time of Our Singing”

4. most pressing technology issues facing higher education today?

5. 1.Security

6. 2.Support

7. 3.Information literacy and preparedness for the digital age

8. Security

9. SANS Institute: (SysAdmin, Audit, Network, Security) Top Attack Targets- data, the network, identity

13. Support: Advocacy Training Testing & Implementation Maintenance Development Delivery Applied Research

16. Digital Literacy: