About Us

Our Mission

The Office of Information Technology (OIT) serves as a catalyst for innovatively leveraging technology to advance and support extraordinary education, breakthrough research, and dynamic public engagement.

Our guiding principles include a focus on communication, collaboration, efficiency, effectiveness, research, outreach, service, and global impact in the field of information technology.

In a world where assistance and customer education are often viewed as an afterthought or something that can be handled from far away, our faculty, staff, and students deserve "IT genius" help—just-in-time, at the point of need, and often in person.

We are committed to serving the needs of the "net generation" and our customers' expectations regarding the use of innovative technologies. In addition, we remain dedicated to supporting the dozens of outlying locations throughout the state that continue to have increasing needs in terms of connectivity and OIT support, and to serving as leaders for the University's technology needs.

As we look ahead, OIT's focus is to create a future-oriented, effective, and efficient organization providing "21st Century" customer education, mobile learning, and development as well as work in the "field" to meet the connectivity needs of our faculty, staff, and students.

• 2008 OIT Annual Report (PDF)
• OIT: A History from 1995-2008

Principles

OIT's work is based on these "ACTIVE" key principles:

• Alignment--how what we do aligns with the University's goals and missions
• Communication--clear and concise understanding of and communication with our customers
• Transparency--our work is open, evident, and understandable to everyone within and outside of OIT
• Input for Innovation--everyone has valuable input in driving innovation in OIT
• Value--how what we do adds value to the University and its community
• Evidence--all of our decisions are based on solid evidence

Organization

See an organizational chart (PDF) of the Office of Information Technology.