Educause 2025 Top 10

  1. Supportable, sustainable, and affordable: developing an institutional strategy for new technology investments, pilots, policies, and uses.
  2. Building bridges, not walls: increasing digital access for students while also safeguarding their privacy and data protection.
  3. Taming the digital jungle: updating and unifying digital infrastructure and governance to increase institutional efficiency and effectiveness.
  4. Putting people first: helping staff adapt, upskill, and thrive in an era of rapid change and ongoing digital advancements.
  5. Better, faster, cheaper: using technology to personalize services, automate work, and increase agility.
  6. Institutional resilience: contributing to institutional efforts to prepare for and address a growing number and range of risks.
  7. The CIO challenge: leading digital strategy and operations in an era of frequent leadership transitions, resource limitations, societal unrest, and rapid technology advancements.
  8. A matter of trust: advancing institutional strategies to safeguard privacy and secure institutional data
  9. Smoothing the student journey: using technology and data to improve and personalize student services
  10. Administrative simplification: streamlining and modernizing processes, data, and technologies.
  11. The data-empowered institution: using data, analytics, and AI to increase student success, win the enrollment race, increase research funding, and reduce inefficiency.

2025 EDUCAUSE Top 10: Restoring Trust