Leah Lang serves as the Senior Director for Partnerships and Corporate Engagement, responsible for the strategic leadership and operational oversight of EDUCAUSE's corporate engagement and partner work. She leads EDUCAUSE's initiatives for corporate members, sponsors, and partner relations, as well as the organization's broader partner strategies and initiatives.
Prior to leading the partnerships and corporate portfolio, Leah served as Director of Decision Support for EDUCAUSE. In this position, she led the strategy and operations for EDUCAUSE's suite of benchmarking services, which are used by the higher education community to inform decision-making about IT and technology solutions. Leah continuously improved existing offerings while expanding the Decision Support portfolio to provide greater value to EDUCAUSE members.
By working closely with the higher education community and staying current on trends in higher education, higher education IT, and technology in general, Leah ensures that IT leaders have the insight they need to implement and maintain effective technology solutions.
Before joining EDUCAUSE, Leah worked to enhance Carnegie Mellon University's IT project management processes and develop metrics for service management. She also served as a mathematical statistician at the U.S. Census Bureau, where her work involved research and development for the American Community Survey, as well as weighting and variance estimation for the Current Population Survey. Leah holds a Bachelor's degree in Statistics from Penn State University, a Master's degree in Survey Methodology from the University of Maryland, and a Product Management Certification from UC Berkeley Executive Education.
In this episode, we discuss improving collaboration between higher education and corporate partners by addressing issues like unsolicited vendor emails, streamlining procurement processes, and fostering trust through strategic engagement.
The 2015 Enterprise Application Market reports from the EDUCAUSE Center for Analysis and Research (ECAR) used 2015 data collected in the 2016 EDUCAUSE Core Data Service (CDS) survey to better understand how higher education institutions approach various information systems.
EDUCAUSE is adopting a new vision for the analytics and benchmarking capabilities provided through the Core Data Service and other analytics resources.
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