 The 2018 Top 10 IT Issues video is sponsored by Dell EMC and EDUCOS Platinum Partner. The 2018 Top 10 IT Issues is a story of the convergence of higher education's biggest concerns with technology's greatest capabilities and focuses on remaking higher education through four primary themes. Institutional Adaptiveness. Institutional and IT leaders are strengthening their individual and collective capacity for not only effective and efficient, but also consequential uses of technology. These issues include number three, institution-wide IT strategy, number six, higher education affordability, and number ten, change leadership. IT Adaptiveness. IT organizations are adapting themselves to new economic, demographic, and industry models and realities and approaching the information security of the institution with even greater rigor. The issues under this theme include number one, information security, and number seven, IT staffing and organizational models. Improved Student Outcomes. Work on student success initiatives has become both more tactical with a nuts-and-bolts focus on integrations and more aspirational with a new emphasis on students' entire experience with the institution. The focus issues are number two, student success. And number five, student-centered institutions. Improved Decision Making. The data issue is every bit as complicated as has been predicted, and efforts to gather, manage, and use the data are advancing. Data issues include number four, data-enabled institutional culture, and a tie for number eight, including data management and governance, and digital integrations. The issues on the top ten list are not just for IT departments to solve. Technology may be difficult, but it may be the easiest issue to address. The challenges related to people, processes, and policies dwarf the technical work. The 2018 top ten IT issues are about nothing less than remaking higher education, and that takes all of us. Dell EMC, an EDUCAUSE Platinum Partner, uses the top ten IT issues report to develop and deliver innovative technology solutions that help higher education institutions solve complex IT challenges and improve student outcomes.