This piece is blurbed, "IT organizations at American colleges and universities are getting clever with cost cutting. Two IT leaders share some of the small, creative tactics they've used to save hundreds of thousands of dollars for their schools while actually managing to improve services for their constituents." Renegotiating phone rates, reducing printing, automating time-sucking routine tasks: There's not much new here, but it's a good resource to use to make sure your list is complete. We kind of liked the on-line "office supplies exchange" that lets departments which have too many red pens exchange them with another department which has too many black ones. Works for toner cartridges, too. Oh, and does any campus, anywhere in the US, still print a course catalogue?