The infrastructure and service delivery designs will support the future use of information technology for instructional, research, and public service activities. This strategic plan is not intended to define the range of institutional uses of information technology. The uses of IT will be defined ultimately by the end users of the IT resources provided by the campus. However, the planning team has spent considerable time attempting to understand the uses envisioned by members of the CU-Boulder community in order to consider their impact on the design of the overall IT environment. Further, this strategic plan does not attempt to redefine the roles of and interactions between faculty and students.
Information technologies can serve and support a wide variety of faculty teaching styles.
The most important benefit derived from this plan will not be any particular recommendation, but rather the fact that the campus has begun a constructive and inclusive process to identify how information technologies can support the academic enterprise. Faculty, students, and staff are now actively engaged in deciding how the campus should support the creative use of information technologies. Given the velocity of change in information technology, this plan is intended to be valid for three to five years. It is difficult, at best, to predict what information technologies will be available and needed just a few years in the future. However, through a process of continuing examination and update, this strategic plan should provide the basis for developing operational goals and implementation strategies to address the strategic recommendations provided.