Educational Technology
- Aligned with College’s strategic priorities
- Help explore ways to blend tradition and innovation in our distinctive way of education.
- ITS will:
- Promote experimentation and innovation, working in collaboration with our faculty
- Develop means to assess effectiveness
- Deepen and extend our partnership with the library
- Be in constant conversation with faculty
Data
- Importance of data is increasing
- Issues: quantity of data, skills gap, cultural lag in recognizing value of data in informing decisions
- ITS will:
- Collaborate with administrative offices and governance committees to develop business intelligence strategy
- Lead the transition from the PeopleSoft ERP to one suited to meet data-handling needs for next decade
- Explore use of unstructured and minimally structured data, such as from social media
Security
- Threats to information security continue to grow in variety and severity
- Holy Cross uses a “Defense in Depth” approach that includes multi-layered approaches, such as technical and campus community participation.
- Extends to risk management and mitigation
- ITS will:
- Continue vigorously proactive approach to information security
- Evolve technical infrastructure as needed
- Advise and assist with compliance
- Provide expert diagnostic and remedial services in event of breach
Innovation Leadership/Technology Innovation
- Innovations might appear anywhere in the life of the College.
- ITS will:
- Learn and change in its own engagement with technology
- Anticipate advances in artificial intelligence, cloud-sourced computational and storage capabilities, and multi-factor authentication
- Support faculty experimentation and partner with campus innovators