ITGC Final Report (December 2007) Statement from Provost Hume, Chair of ITGC With the University engaged in long-term strategic planning through the President’s Long-Range Guidance Team and my complementary Systemwide Academic Planning Process, there is no better time to focus Universitywide attention on the development of an information technology infrastructure that supports and integrates the University’s academic and administrative activities.
			Wyatt R. Hume Provost and Executive VP – Academic & Health Affairs
	To cost-effectively support UC’s continued eminence, our long-term IT requirements and investments must closely align with and support campus and systemwide goals in all areas, including research, teaching, student life, faculty and student recruitment and retention, development, public service, and administration. While most of the responsibility for achieving this alignment rests with the campuses, there are clearly opportunities at the systemwide level to leverage campus and systemwide investments, foster campus distinctiveness, enhance the University’s competitive position, and avoid duplicative expenditures. The IT Guidance Committee process affords a welcome opportunity to cultivate a campus-systemwide partnership to guide UC’s strategic investment in a rapidly evolving information technology environment.

Background

The Information Technology Guidance Committee has been established to engage in a consultative, 18-month systemwide planning process to identify and recommend strategic directions to guide investments in information technology (IT) and the academic information environment.

The formation of this committee recognizes the increasingly important role that information technology will play in sustaining the enhancing the University’s academic quality and competitiveness and in ensuring essential business effectiveness and efficiencies.

At the completion of the process, the ITGC will issue a report that attempts to:

• Identify strategic directions for IT investments that enable campuses to meet their distinctive needs more effectively while supporting the University’s broader mission, academic programs and strategic goals.
• Promote the deployment of information technology services to support innovation and the enhancement of academic quality and institutional competitiveness.
• Leverage IT investment and expertise to fully exploit collective and campus-specific IT capabilities.

UC Provost Rory Hume chairs the ITGC, which is also being led by academic and IT leaders from across the campuses and at the Office of the President.

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Reports

Interim ITGC Report (May 2007)

• Draft report & discussion materials

December 2006

Each of the ITGC focus areas prepared reports, which include preliminary proposals for consideration by the ITGC, for the December 11, 2006 meeting.

• Advanced Networking Services
• Common IT Architecture
• High Performance Research Computing
• Instructional Technology
• IT in Student Experience
• Stewardship of Digital Assets

September 2006

• Status report of ITGC planning process (prepared by Kris Hafner & Dan Greenstein)
• Each of the ITGC focus areas prepared reports for the September 18-19 ITGC meeting held in Oakland. After the meeting, an update on the discussion that took place at the meeting was prepared for each focus area. The report and update have been integrated into one document for each focus area and can be accessed from the links below:
  • Advanced Networking Services
  • Common IT Architecture | Presentation
  • High Performance Research Computing | Presentation
  • Instructional Technology
  • IT in Student Experience
  • Stewardship of Digital Assets | Presentation

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