Goals Personal ownership and the implementation of distributed technologies within units has shifted the control of the use of technology to individual users, schools, and responsibility centers. As a result, the balance between centralized and distributed facilities and services must be carefully planned. The full cost of investments in computing equipment and facilities will be built into technology cost models. Life-cycle replacement and total operating costs will be considered as part of the investment. Facilities to complement the use of personally owned machines will be provided through campus facilities, software, and access to high-end technologies.
Faculty require a robust infrastructure and access to technologies to support teaching and learning.
Unit responsibilities, goals, and priorities will dictate the extent of support available beyond a baseline of institutionally provided resources. The University community requires appropriate online access to information, software, applications, tools, and support. Opportunities exist to improve the quality of research and the delivery of instruction if the design, development, and innovative use of information technology are promoted. The information architecture vision for the institution is based on distributed applications, distributed control, graphical user interfaces with a rich set of consistent functions, and information access. Modern information systems will be deployed to enhance the business processes of the University and make them more effective.