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October 31, 2016

In this week's news, new IT issues part of EDUCAUSE's annual IT report include strategic leadership, affordability, and next-gen enterprise IT. Also, new data challenges the commonly held perception that low-income students have a categorical deficit and cannot thrive in a variety of four-year college ecosystems; a massive campus computing survey shows that most colleges and universities are still undergoing budget cuts in the aftershocks of the struggling economy; and defining blockchain technology, as well as its growing potential for higher ed.

Leave your comments with the stories, email me at mstansbury@ecampusnews.com, or find me @eSN_Meris on Twitter.

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Meris Stansbury, Editor

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