Top 10 IT Issues, 2022: The Higher Education We Deserve #1. Cyber Everywhere! Are We Prepared?: Developing processes and controls, institutional infrastructure, and institutional workforce skills to protect and secure data and supply-chain integrity #2. Evolve or Become Extinct: Accelerating digital transformation to improve operational efficiency, agility, and institutional workforce development #3. Digital Faculty for a Digital Future: Ensuring faculty have the digital fluency to provide creative, equitable and innovative engagement for students #4. Learning from COVID-19 to Build a Better Future: Using digitization and digital transformation to produce technology systems that are more student-centric and equity-minded #5. The Digital versus Brick-and-Mortar Balancing Game: Creating a blended campus to provide digital and physical work and learning spaces #6. From Digital Scarcity to Digital Abundance: Achieving full, equitable digital access for students by investing in connectivity, tools, and skills #7. The Shrinking World of Higher Education or an Expanded Opportunity? Developing a technology-enhanced post-pandemic institutional vision and value proposition #8. Weathering the Shift to the Cloud: Creating a cloud and SaaS strategy that reduces costs and maintains control #9. Can We Learn from a Crisis? Creating an actionable disaster-preparation plan to capitalize on pandemic-related cultural change and investments #10. Radical Creativity: Helping students prepare for the future by giving them tools and learning spaces that foster creative practices and collaborations The full report is available from: https://er.educause.edu/articles/2021/11/top-10-it-issues-2022-the-higher-ed... © 2021 Susan Grajek and the 2021–2022 EDUCAUSE IT Issues Panel. "If there is one word describing the trait that institutional and technology leaders will need in 2022, that word may be FLEXIBILITY". ---------- Dr. J. K. VIJAYAKUMAR, Strategic Information Advisor, Office of the Provost, King Abdullah University of Science & Technology (KAUST), Saudi Arabia.