Departmental Self Review - UCLA Academic Senate

INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY STRATEGIC PLANCommittee Members and Expert Contributors:James Kimmick, UCLA SON Network Manager (Committee Chair)Dr. Chandice Covington, Chair, UCLA SON Primary CareScott Dicks, Programmer Analyst, SON Information TechnologyDr. Lorraine Evangelista, Assistant Professor, UCLA SON Acute CareDavid Parkinson, Programmer Analyst, SON Information TechnologyDr. Tom Phelan, Director, UCLA Social Sciences ComputingDr. Wendie Robbins, Associate Professor, UCLA SON Primary CareDaniel Roselle, Administrative Analyst, SON Instructional SupportKathy Scrivner, Student Affairs, UCLA SONMel Widawski, Principal Statistician, UCLA SONDr. Lynn Woods, Assistant Professor, UCLA SON Primary CareThe Chair wishes to give special thanks to all committee members and expert contributors fortheir time and outstanding assistance in the preparation of this report.Summary of Recommendations:Information technology in 2005 is undergoing fundamental paradigm shifts. Strong budgetaryforces to contain costs along with the need to comply with information security legislation arefundamentally reshaping information technology in academia. At the same time newtechnologies continue to be rapidly deployed for use in instruction, research, and academicmanagement, taxing technical infrastructure and support capabilities.In many ways the next five years will prove the most challenging that the School has ever seen,not because of security threats or budget cuts, but because so much is now possible. The trickwill be to carefully balance the many possibilities available with the resources at hand.Due to these challenges, fundamental questions are being raised by senior universitymanagement about the appropriate role of academic information technology, and the answers tothese questions may critically affect the course of computing at UCLA for many years to come.This report will focus on responses to these challenges, with the goal of most effectivelypositioning information technology within the School of Nursing to best support the coremissions of education, research, and community service. These responses fall in the followingeight areas:1) Balancing Of IT Resources Between Mission Areas. A comprehensive support model must bedeveloped to best apportion resources to core services, research, faculty, student instruction,security, and infrastructure. A new paradigm for support is offered to address current issues.Further dialog between school administrators and grant investigators is stronglyrecommended to develop a more robust means of funding grant operations.276