The most important aspect of cooperation has to do with our faculty and staff. They must become willingly engaged in the creative application of information technology to their work. Achieving the overall goal of this plan university leadership in information technology will require much more than innovations in technology. In order for information technology to have a transforming effect on teaching and scholarship, IU will need to recruit, retain, reward and support faculty and staff who are innovators in the use of information technology for teaching and research, and recognize the value of IT in the development of academic programs. The University's development of computer networks calls for development of human and institutional networks.
Support is fundamentally a cooperative effort.
Major investment is required not just in UITS, but in every school and department. This plan has outlined ten recommendations and 68 specific actions that should guide the University's investment, so that IU will become a leader in absolute terms in the development and use of information technology. The achievements of Indiana University in the next millennium will be measured in large part by the architecture of its information technology. The next five years will be critical in setting the foundation stones for this architecture.