JMU Information Technology

Goals & Objectives 2004-2005

5. The university's strength is its people and thus, we will invest in both professional development and instructional innovation and excellence.
   • Provide professional development opportunities for staff in Information Technology
   • Implement an orientation program for new Information Technology employees
   • Provide opportunities both online and in the classroom for faculty and staff to improve technology skills and bring campus-wide computing skills to a higher level
   
   
6. The university will be a diverse community whose members share a common JMU experience.
   
   
7. The university will serve our state and the region, but through its people, programs and accomplishments, will be recognized on a national basis.

9. The University will enhance and diversify funding sources to achieve initiatives campus-wide.
   
   
10. The university will develop broad-based financial support and involvement among alumni, parents and friends.
    
    
11. The university, to enhance and support its programs, will expand its strategic alliances with external partners.
    
    
12. The university will follow a planning process that emphasizes accountability and ties resource allocation and initiatives to the concepts of institutional effectiveness.
    
    
13. The university, through its planning process, will clearly align aspirations, wills and resources to achieve its goals.
    
    
14. The university will involve the entire community in a well-defined, consistently-used and commonly understood process for planning and decision-making.
    
    

19. The university will provide technologies and laboratories that are widely accessible to the entire campus community.
    • Support the implementation of the selected Content Management System/Portal
    • Develop and begin to implement a three year storage, backup and restore plan
    • Implement a device registration system
    • Develop and begin to implement a four year infrastructure upgrade plan for 100 mb’s to the desktop and additional wireless network access
    • Evaluate and make a recommendation for procurement of a Centralized Desktop Management Solution
    
    
20. The university will continue to be recognized as an efficient, overachiever in its use of resources in the total educational program it offers.
    
    
21. The university will provide a high level of service to all members of the JMU community.
    • Enhance and create ongoing model for assessing Information Technology satisfaction
    • Organize an Information Technology Fair promoting our services and enthusiasm about computing at JMU, as well as to establish a communication network among IT and administrative customers
    • Enhance and promote our information security awareness program
    • Implement project selection and project management across campus
    • Complete a review of the university’s Information Security Program
    • EEpand access to e-campus and/or e-mail to other key JMU constituencies
    • Finance 8.8 Reimplementation
    • HR Employee Self-Service, J-Ess Phase III
    • e-Campus Evaluation and Expansion
    • Continue support for eVa campus-wide roll-out
    • Develop a proposal for planned replacement/recycle of faculty/staff computers
    • Establish services necessary to leverage personally-owned student computers for use in instruction and service delivery
    
    
22. The university will continue to offer and develop programs and services with the student as its ultimate focus.
    
    
23. The university will provide students and student-athletes with a comprehensive and competitive intercollegiate athletics program.
    
    
24. The university's campus will be attractive, safe and friendly.