With colleges and universities struggling to minimize the effects of the troubled economy, it certainly isn't an easy time to be a CIO. This article presents an interview with a panel of higher education IT leaders about best practices for steering IT through economic crisis. Panelists included Jan Biros, associate VP for instructional technology support and campus outreach at Drexel University (Pennsylvania); Wayne Brown, VP for information technology at Excelsior College (New York); Kamran Khan, vice provost for IT at Rice University (Texas); Rick Peterson, chief technology officer at Washington and Lee University (Virginia); and Adrian Sannier, VP and university technology officer at Arizona State University.