Established in 2000, the Sautter award recognizes information technology innovations that have the potential to improve how the university operates. The award also highlights best practices for implementation at other UC campuses. Each year, information technology (IT), business and academic personnel from the UC campuses and the three UC managed national laboratories submit applications to compete for four awards.
This year, UC Berkeley received the Golden Award for est IT Practices in Business Processes and Services for development of an IT security policy and minimum standards for networked devices.
UC Irvine received the Golden Award for Innovation and Entrepreneurship in Information Technology for development of an online employee reclassification process called FastClass.
UC Riverside received a Silver Award for Achievement in University Computing for its mini-portal for student self-service applications called GROWL.
UC San Francisco received a Silver Award for Achievement in University Computing for the School of Medicine's Web-based curriculum management tool.
Winning applications are online at http://ucop.edu/irc/itlc/sautter
The award program is sponsored by the UC Information Technology Leadership Council
Golden Award -- Best IT Practices in Business Processes and Services
* Winner: UC Berkeley -- Information Technology Security Policy and Minimum Standards for Security of Networked Devices
(Contact: Karen Eft, IT policy analyst, CIO's office: 510-642-4095, kareneft@berkeley.edu)
The Berkeley campus has developed a suite of new security policies, standards and support activities that can be readily modified and implemented for other UC campuses and institutions of higher education. The goal was to develop a framework for IT security that balances security with the open access desired by public research universities. Recognizing that central network controls and monitors can only do part of the job of maintaining security, a solution was sought that was multi-layered and could reach the thousand of individual machines that make up the campus IT environment. An effective campuswide security policy, agreed to and supported by a broad constituency, has become an essential element in achieving a proper balance between security and access. Another important part of the solution are easy-to-use and inexpensive site-licensed security tools such as host-based firewalls, anti-virus systems, and spam filters.
The IT security policy is at http://socrates.berkeley.edu:2002/IT.sec.policy.html. Minimum standards are posted at http://security.berkeley.edu:2002/MinStds/.
Golden Award -- Innovation and Entrepreneurship in Information Technology
* Winner: UC Irvine -- FastClassÂÂOnline Reclassification Process
(Contact: Ramona Agrela, assistant director, human resources: 949-824-7125, ragrela@uci.edu)
FastClass streamlines the process of reclassifying employees into more appropriate job classifications when their position's responsibilities change or increase. FastClass replaces cumbersome, manual, paper-based procedures with a Web-based, paperless enterprise system offering a faster and simpler process. FastClass supports the more than 130 business unit personnel officers charged with staffing the UCI community and retaining valuable human assets. Equally important, FastClass assists more than 4,000 career employees with a streamlined, simple and equitable technological system to align job duties with the right job title and compensation.
Silver Award -- Achievement in University Computing
* Winner: UC Riverside -- GROWL Web to CICS Interface
(Contact: Mary Livaudais, manager, student information systems: 909-787-2072, mary.livaudais@ucr.edu)
Computing and Communications developed a mini-portal for UCR's student body using Web service facilities on recent releases of IBM's OS/390 software. The result is a highly available, responsive and scaleable window into the world of student self-service applications. The first application to run under this new infrastructure was a grades display utility -- Grades and Online Web Links ÂÂ- GROWL. Introduced to the campus without any incremental costs, GROWL provides access to all student self-service Web applications with immediate response, even during peak registration periods.
* Silver Award -- Achievement in University Computing
Winner: UCSF -- IliosÂÂSchool of Medicine's Curriculum Management Tool
(Contact: Kevin Souza, director, office of educational technology: 415-476-8086, souzak@medsch.ucsf.edu)
Ilios manages curriculum planning, delivery and oversight at UCSF's School of Medicine. To stimulate and support dramatic curricular change, a powerful Web-based tool was created to facilitate communication and collaboration; to serve as a development forum; to provide a database of curricular details; to manage digital learning materials; and to offer windows into the curriculum. Ilios's intuitive interface and wizard-driven navigation facilitate
· ownership and community among diverse faculty,
· longitudinal curriculum monitoring and planning,
· wide-ranging searching and reporting capabilities,
· management and delivery of curricular information and learning materials, and
seamless integration with iROCKET, the School of Medicine's digital curriculum delivered through WebCT.