ITC Reading List: Suggested Background Documents
UCSC IT Planning Documents:
o
Instructional Technology Group
Final Report
Appendices:
o Enterprise Systems Workgroup Report to ITC
o
Web
Services Committee Final Report to ITC
o Network Rates and Services Subcommittee Report
o ITC Long Term Planning Submission to Campus Provost/EVC Simpson - 4/02
o Policy Guidelines for Blocking Network Access: Approved 2/02
o Email Advisory Team Report - 1/02
o Phase I, inventory component of the Web Presence assessment
o Web Activity Based Costing report
o
Financial
Information System Review
o IT Strategic Directions Memo from Larry Merkley to EVC Simpson 3.15.01
o
Campus Information
Technology Vision 1997-98
o "CATS Assessment Report, 1998" - Read for principles - system owner, IT service, accountability, coordinating process
o Campus planning process – Committee Structure
o "UC 2010: A New Business Architecture for the University of California" - Can be downloaded from the internet at: http://uc2010.ucsd.edu/
o Insights - "CATS Budget Deficit Review, 1999" – A summary of key principles from this document is available.
o "University of California, Santa Cruz Academic Information System: Final Report and Recommendation of the AIS Project "Team – Provided by Mark Cianca.
UCSC Large System Websites:
· FIS – The Banner Financial System
· PPS – The Payroll Personnel System
· AIS / SIS – The Student/Academic Information System
· Data Warehouse – The UCSC Data Warehouse System
UCSC IT Support Units on Campus:
CATS – Communications and Technology Services
· Office of the Assistant Vice Chancellor - Pat LeCuyer, AVC
· Applications Development & Support (ADS)
· Computing Systems Operations
· Instructional Computing (IC)
o Instructional labs information
o WebCT Course Management System
· Network & Telecommunications Services
o Cabling
o Network Operations
o Network Planning and Development
o Network Security
o Telecom Services
o Information Resource Center -- the Computer Help Desk
UCOP IT Documents: http://www.ucop.edu/irc/reports.html - Including links to:
· Authentication Workgroup Report
· Deloitte & Touche Review of Corporate Information Systems
· Employee Systems Task Force Report
· Future Directions for the Corporate Information Systems
· UC whITe PAPERS on Information Technologies
o WPR-001 "An Information Architecture for UC: Critical Building Blocks"
o WPR-002 The " UC Electronic Mail Policy" which became official on August 6, 1996
o WPR-003 "The UC Framework for Administrative Computing: 1994-95" coordinated by Information Systems and Computing, IR&C, Office of the President
o WPR-004 "Building the Urban Area Network"
o WPR-005 "Authenticating Aperiodic Connections to the Campus Network" WPR-008 "A Proposal for UC-wide Internet Naming Conventions"
EDUCAUSE
· Home Page: http://www.educause.edu/
· Publications: http://www.educause.edu/pub/pubs.html
· Information Resources Library: http://www.educause.edu/ir/ir.html
· Specific Articles of Interest:
o It’s a Bird. It’s a Plane. It’s a…Portal?
o The Data Warehouse: Keeping It Simple
o[Student] Guide to Evaluating Information Technology on Campus
Other University IT Planning Sites/Documents:
UC Berkeley: http://ist.berkeley.edu:5555/Vision98/
Other UC Berkeley IT Documents
· The E-Berkeley Document: E-Berkeley Task force background and report:
o http://istpub.berkeley.edu:4201/bcc/Apr_May2000/gen.eberk.html
o http://campus.chance.berkeley.edu/eberkeley/e-business-96.pdf
and now the E-Berkeley Implementation Task Force:
o http://campus.chance.berkeley.edu/itf/itf.html
Of note is the "Building e-Berkeley" report
o http://campus.chance.berkeley.edu/itf/building_eberkeley.html
and the Policy Working Group pages (note recently released report):
o http://socrates.berkeley.edu:7015/EBITF_PWG/
UC Davis: UC Davis Administrative Computing Plan
UC Los Angeles: http://www.aitb.ucla.edu/itplan/toc.htm
UC San Francisco: http://www.ucsf.edu/itplan/
UC Santa Barbara: http://www.physics.ucsb.edu/%7Eitb/
Cal Poly: Information Technology Services Strategic Plan, 1998
University of San Francisco: Information Technology Plan, 1999
Other U.S. Campuses
Duke University: http://www.oit.duke.edu/itac/
Indiana University: http://www.indiana.edu/~ovpit/strategic/
http://www.indiana.edu/~ucs/plancom/info.html
Ohio State University: http://www.acs.ohio-state.edu/units/uts/strategic_plan/
University of Arizona: http://itc.arizona.edu/plans/ITplan.html
University of Colorado, Boulder:
http://www.colorado.edu/UCB/Administration/ITplan/menu.html
University of Iowa: http://www.its.uiowa.edu/its/
University of Louisville: http://www.louisville.edu/it/vpit/strategic-review/
University of Virginia: http://www.itc.virginia.edu/oit/org/plans.html
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Last modified on 2/7/2002.