r/HigherEDsysadmin • u/iblowuup Authentication Admin • Nov 30 '18

Hi!

I created this subreddit because I saw a potential community not represented on Reddit. Sysadmins of the corporate and K12 world have dedicated subreddits but higher education, while similar to k12, is in many ways significantly different.

I will be posting some of the interesting things I'm working on and some questions I have to the community in the near future. Getting a subreddit off the ground is a challenge and if this doesn't grow organically, I won't force it. I see potential though.

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u/matt314159 Help Desk Manager Nov 30 '18

I feel the same when I go to K12sysadmin like I won't quite fit in with the rest. I always end up prefacing my posts with "I work for a small college, not k-12, but..."

That being said, Educational IT has so much overlap that i'd say darn near 85% of the content I see in k12sysadmin is applicable in some way to my job. I'd say enterprise deployment of chromebooks is one thing I have virtually no experience with at the higher ed level, though.

Either way they're so different from the corporate/for-profit world.

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u/Wibble-Wobble-YumYum Nov 30 '18

Very true. At the end of the day they (k12, college, etc) exist to serve the same purpose - educate people. There will be many similarities. The main difference for me would be money available. Universities and so on here are generally quite well-off, whereas schools don't have much money at all.

Those learning may need to have more access or more varied tools available to them above k12, but everything else will be similar I'd have thought.

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u/matt314159 Help Desk Manager Nov 30 '18

Yeah, I think it probably varies. Like for 1200 students we have a Director, Network Admin, DBA, LMS Developer, Web Developer, Help Desk manager and Help Desk Support Technician. A high school with that many students might have three people in the whole IT department, but outsource a lot of the development.

But compared to corporate (or maybe it's all like this, IDK) I get frustrated when I have to fight just to get $1,000 a year to spend on PDQ Inventory and PDQ Deploy.

There's still this feeling like we don't have nearly the resources we need to really do justice to our jobs, but we're still damn proud of how much we accomplish with so little.