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Preface to the Strategic Plan For Information Technology

As one reads the Strategic Plan document, there are a number of assumptions, or foundations, that the Strategic Planning Team feels are critical to understanding the document in the proper context.

• First and foremost, this document was the product of hundreds of University faculty and staff, through a number of committees, as well as a campus-wide forum. It has the support of the entire Strategic Planning Team.
• It is important that it be viewed as a living document; it is only valuable if it is complete and current. This document represents a beginning point.
• This document represents a process rather than a set of rules and limitations.
• Within its strategies and actions, University information technology priorities must be established.
• Although the document contains some strategies/actions, it does not represent a complete list. Actions included were ones that bubbled up through the forum and/or committee deliberations, and were to important to allow not mention here.
• This plan is presented as the University’s Information Technology Plan, not the plan of the Office of Information Technology.
• This plan is intended to serve as an institutional boilerplate; allowing colleges and departments to align their own plans with it.
• Implementation of the Plan requires a calendar of next steps:
• Review of Plan by credentialed outside parties.
• Strategic Planning Team follow-up with yearly Update forum.
• Base funding is critical to Plan success.
• Recognition of the varying level of needs must be considered.

As submitted by the Strategic Plan Working Team
June 16, 2000 and revised on May 18, 2001, and November 4, 2009