Office of Information Technology | University of Guam (2024)

TheIT Advisory Committeefor the University of Guam is the campus-wide body responsible for providing strategic, technical, and operational Information Technology advice to the CIO and campus senior leadership. The advisory committee will provide strategic leadership, establish campus -wide IT priorities and policies, and ensure transparency and accountability to the University Community with regards to all IT activities on campus. Additionally, the committee will ensure that the campus IT strategic goals and efforts are aligned with the university G2G strategic plan and goals.

The makeup of the IT Advisory Committee shall be updated by the IT Advisory Committee as necessary to reflect changes in the University's academic, administrative, or technical environments, or applicable laws and regulations. The current composition of the IT Advisory Committee is as follows:

• Co-Chairs
  • Chief Information Officer
  • Rotates annually between the Senior Vice President for Academic and Student Affairs and the Vice President for Administration and Finance
• Academic Affairs
  • Director, MARC and RFK Library
  • Dean, Enrollment Management and Student Success
  • Director, Financial Aid Office
  • Director, Professional and International Programs
  • The Dean from each of the Schools and Colleges listed below, or one (1) faculty member appointed for a two (2) year term from each College by the Dean thereof:
    • CLASS; CNAS; SBPA; SOH; Library; SENG
• Student Government Association
  • SGA President or Proxy
• Administration and Finance
  • Vice President for Administration and Finance or Proxy
  • Chief Plant and Facilities Officer or Proxy
• President’s Office
  • Director, Integrated Marketing and Communications or Proxy
• Endowment Foundation
  • Executive Director, UOG Endowment Foundation or Proxy
• Ex-Officio: Office of Information Technology
  • Office of IT Administrators
  • 2-3 Office of IT Technical Staff

Shared IT Governance Sub-Committees

There will be four sub-committees that will be responsible for addressing specific campus-wide action items or IT strategic goals. The following sub-committees will report up to the IT Advisory Committee regarding IT policies, tasks, or project outcomes and statuses:

• Academic Computing and UOG Online
• Administrative Computing
• Information Security
• Web Presence

The makeup and annual goals of the IT Advisory Sub-Committees shall be updated by each IT Advisory Sub-Committee and submitted to the IT Advisory Committee for approval. These revisions will be completed as necessary to reflect changes in the University's academic, administrative, or technical environments, or applicable laws and regulations.

On October 13, 2016, the Office of Information Technology conductedan IT Strategic Planning retreat moderated by Mr. Amir Dabirian, Vice President for Information Technology and CIO for California State University, Fullerton. Amir delivered a keynote presentation that discussed IT Trends, higher education IT priorities, and provided examples of what is possible if the campus puts its resources and efforts into developing a transformational IT environment that enables efficiencies, synergies, and innovation.

As a result of the IT Strategic Planning retreat, we now have a preliminary list of University IT Strategic Goals aligned with G2G. The preliminary goals and strategies selected have broad institutional impacts and have buy-in from the campus constituents who attended the IT Planning Retreat. I will endeavor over the next 4 weeks to finalize these strategic goals and distribute the plan to the campus community.

The following categories are what the campus selected as the 5-year UOG IT Strategic Goals:

• Goal 1: Secure and Dynamic Infrastructure.(Aligned with G2G Issue 3 and 5)Build and expand agile and secure technology infrastructure to provide reliable, effective and sustainable services.
• Goal 2: IT Organizational Excellence.(Aligned with G2G issue 2 and 4)Invest in professional and intellectual development of IT staff. Establish an enterprise IT governance that is participative and transparent.
• Goal 3: Innovative and Efficient Technologies.(Aligned with G2G issue 1-5)Maximize use of digital technologies, processes, and mobile connectivity so that the campus community can easily collaborate, innovate and facilitate the exploration and adoption of new tools that support pedagogy, academic vision and learning.
• Goal 4: Student Success.(Aligned with G2G Issue 1 and 5)Empower students, faculty and staff with technology‐based solutions that promote curricular and co-curricular success.

A list of proposed objectives for the above goals can be found in the two-page “Draft Information Technology Strategic Goals 2016-2020”.

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• UOG Organizational Chart