 The EDUCAUSE 2017 Top 10 IT Issues video is sponsored by Dell EMC. Each year, the EDUCAUSE Top 10 IT Issues list identifies the most pressing higher education IT priorities, and in 2017, four focus areas have emerged. Higher ed IT leaders understand the importance of enabling successful students. The list of 2017 priorities include student success and completion, using analytics to help improve retention, course completion, and credential attainment. Digital transformational learning is about applying technology to improve teaching and learning in ways that stress pedagogy and institutional culture. Strong IT foundations are also necessary to achieve student success initiatives. EDUCAUSE members are continuing to improve institutional information security, once again the number one issue, in order to reduce institutional exposure to information security threats. They are also concerned with sustainable staffing as budgets shrink or remain flat. And they are also developing and implementing next-gen enterprise IT using applications and sourcing solutions to achieve agility, scalability, cost-effectiveness, and effective analytics. Other progress is not possible without dependable data foundations. Institutions must use data-informed decision-making to ensure that business analytics are relevant, convenient, and used by all stakeholders. And they must address data management and governance to improve the management of institutional data. Effective leadership is the final key element, which stresses the deepening interdependence of IT effectiveness and institutional success. Strategic leadership is most important, repositioning the role of IT leadership as a strategic partner with institutional leadership. CIOs must also ensure sustainable funding to bolster core IT services, support innovation, and facilitate growth. Effective leadership helps promote higher education affordability, with IT investments properly prioritized to match the institution's run, growth, and transformation needs. Successful students, IT foundations, data foundations, and effective leadership, the EDUCAUS 2017 Top 10 IT Issues touch every aspect of higher education today. Dell EMC serves higher education institutions around the world by delivering innovative technology solutions, including teaching and learning transformation, powering the underlying infrastructure, and providing analytics, security, and cloud-based services.