The campus needs to decide what it needs or wants in an AVC at this time. An engineering manager-type will be very different from a CIO type. Nine different structures, nine different approaches. We were at the bottom of the list as far as infrastructure up until the last year or so, now we are in the leading group. We do not have a long history of using information technology throughout the campus.
Most campuses have a history of budgeting for academic computing.
We have not had a history of funding academic computing in an ongoing basis. Where it would be a case of incremental funding adjustments at other campuses, this is not the case here. Administration - we are very late to working with online systems. This is a major and painful transition. This affects support structures throughout the campus.