IT Governance – Welcome

IT Governance is entering its sixth year as the guiding policy and planning body for information technology at Cal Poly Pomona. I am proud of the achievements of the IT Governance Executive Committee and its four subcommittees. The state of technology at Cal Poly Pomona has continued to improve dramatically as a result of the work of the Teaching, Learning, and Technology, Standards and Support, Administrative Computing, and Web Guidance subcommittees. Due to their recommendations we have participated in the 2008 ECAR Study on Students and IT, we moved forward with the third year of the DOLCE project, we adopted Guidelines for Passwords and Pass Phrases for Desktops and Laptops, Climate Neutrality, Desktop Standards, Trademarks on the CPP Web, Server Standards, Vista/Office 2007, Information Classification and Handling, Faculty Laptop Program Assessment, Checklist for Web pages in the csupomona.edu Domain, Principles of Best Practice for IT Professional Development, Technology Literacy for Students and we selected i<Clicker as the University-wide Student Response System. This past summer 21 additional classrooms were upgraded to support learning-centered technology. Counting these recent upgrades, there are now 201 technology-equipped classrooms throughout campus.

I look forward to another very productive year in 2008-09.

— President J. Michael Ortiz, 2008

The Purpose and Role of Information Technology at Cal Poly Pomona

In May 2004, the IT Governance Executive Committee met for a planning workshop to begin to envision the desired future state of information technology at Cal Poly Pomona. After extensive and wide ranging discussions, the committee adopted the following statement on the Purpose and Role of Information Technology as a target for the campus to build towards. The IT Governance Executive Committee serves as the campus-wide body working to advance this vision.

Purpose

Information technology is a catalyst for productivity, creativity, and community that enhances learning opportunities in an environment of unlimited demands and limited resources.

Vision

At Cal Poly Pomona, information technology:

serves as a seamless and transparent utility, easy-to-use and worry-free;
fosters new and non-traditional educational opportunities, free of time and place restrictions, and supports life-long learning;
supports community and communication by offering tools for collaboration;
provides an infrastructure for efficient and effective processes and services, to benefit students, staff, faculty, and the community;
offers easy and effective access to information, in support of learning, research, planning, and personal and professional development;
accommodates and enables a wide variety of learning and working styles and needs for a diverse community;
and creates an attractive environment for students, faculty, and staff, providing a competitive edge for recruitment and retention.