Role of IT Governance
- Align IT Investments with Institutional Priorities:
- Ensure IT investments support the CSU System’s strategic goals and optimize resource utilization across departments and colleges.
- Enhance Collaboration and Transparency:
- Guide the adoption of cohesive IT best practices, promote transparency in decision-making, and enhance collaboration across centralized and distributed IT units.
- Strengthen IT Services and Foster Innovation:
- Identify opportunities to strengthen IT services in areas like student success, instruction, and research, while balancing operational efficiencies with emerging technologies.
- Review, Approve, and Recommend Priorities for Project Requests:
- Provide recommendations on funding priorities, expenditures, risk, and policy issues. Approve project expenditures, with appropriate limits, and review new project requests with the Demand Management Groups.
- Engage in Strategic IT Planning:
- Regularly update and align IT strategies and plans with the institution’s goals, involving relevant stakeholders in key decisions and ensuring cross-department coordination.
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Committees
IT Executive Committee
As the definitive decision-making body in CSU’s IT Governance, the IT Executive Committee (ITEC) shapes the system-wide IT vision and prioritizes key IT initiatives. Comprising top-level university executives, the council ensures that IT strategies support CSU’s overarching mission and goals.
IT Strategy Committee
At the core of aligning IT investments with the strategic goals of the CSU System, the IT Strategy Committee (ITSC) bridges technology and strategy. Composed of leaders from diverse CSU System areas, this committee facilitates collaborative decision-making, enhances IT service delivery, and ensures a balance between operational efficiency and technological innovation.
Student Success & Instructional Tech Committee
Dedicated to the integration of technology in teaching and student learning, the Student Success & Instructional Tech Committee (SSITC) plays a pivotal role in shaping the future of teaching and learning within the CSU System. It evaluates and recommends strategies for both physical and online learning environments, ensuring technological advancements align with educational goals and trends.
Research Technologies Committee
Focused on advancing the CSU System’s research frontier, the Research Technologies Committee (RTC) is pivotal in aligning information technology with the evolving needs of academic research. It plays a crucial role in shaping IT strategies and policies to support faculty and student research initiatives, ensuring that technology effectively bolsters the university’s research mission.
Administrative Systems Committee
At the forefront of aligning administrative technology with the strategic needs of the CSU System, the Administrative Systems Committee (ASC) is pivotal in ensuring that core administrative functions such as Human Resources, Accounting, and College Administration are supported and enhanced by innovative information technology solutions. This committee is instrumental in driving cost efficiencies, fostering innovation, and enhancing communication.
Infrastructure, Architecture, & Security Committee
The Infrastructure, Architecture, & Security Committee (IASC) stands as the cornerstone of the CSU System’s technological landscape, safeguarding and architecting the infrastructure that supports our academic and administrative functions. The committee oversees the alignment of IT services with our institutional mission, fostering a secure, efficient, and innovative environment for faculty, students, and staff.
Advisory Groups
College IT Administrators Council (CITAC)
The College IT Administrators Council functions as a campus-wide technology driven collaborative enttity to provide guidance to Deans and gathers and distributes information for special projects originating from the Division of IT and other areas.
University Technology Fee Advisory Board (UTFAB)
The mission of the University Technology Fee Advisory Board is to provide guidance and advice in the implementation and application of technology at Colorado State University, to review all allocation requests of the University Technology Fee, and to ensure that all allocations of the University Technology Fee are used to provide technology that has the potential to benefit as many Colorado State University students as possible.
Faculty Council: Committee on Information Technology
Faculty Council is the representative body for the academic faculty in shared governance at CSU. Faculty Council’s Committee on Information Technology consults on campus-wide IT policies, practices, and standards, reviews and engages in the campus-wide IT strategic planning process and makes recommendations for resource allocations to the Vice President for IT to achieve university academic and research goals.
Classroom Review Board (CRB)
The Classroom Review Board is an administrative committee appointed by the Provost. Its primary role is to create and administer policies concerning the management of all general assignment classrooms on the Fort Collins campus.
Data Governance
Data Governance promotes data stewardship principles and drives consistent practices in data management and security and adherence to CSU standards and policies for properly storing, sharing, accessing, and disposing of University data.