Foster Community Partnerships
Build a technology foundation that supports UNLV’s efforts to stimulate economic development and diversification, foster a climate of innovation, promote health, deepen and expand reciprocal connections, and enrich the cultural vitality of the communities that it serves.
UNLV IT Master Plan Fosters Community Partnerships
#1 Governance of IT
- Includes an Advancement representative on the Technology Advisory Committee
- Includes an Academic Health Center representative on the Technology Review Board
#2 Strategic Technology Planning
- Establishes technology standards that improve the university’s ability to partner with local service providers
- Provides opportunities for community partners to help shape UNLV’s technology vision
- Regularly aligns the IT Master Plan with Top Tier community partnership goals
- Includes alumni and community partners in the annual assessment of the Plan
- Provides assessment of the Plan’s effectiveness in fostering a diverse campus population and in supporting community partnerships
#3 IT Leadership and Coordination
- Provides a CIO to foster opportunities for IT collaboration, contribution, and community partnerships with key regional constituencies
- Champions a shared vision among southern Nevada educational partners to help students master technologies needed to succeed in higher education and the global workforce
- Charges the CIO with exploring technology collaborations among local, state, regional, and federal entities, and the university to mutual benefit
- Provides innovate technology leadership to help address the growing need for highly qualified information technology specialists in Las Vegas and across the state
#4 IT Projects
- Encourages leveraging community partnerships, collaboratives, and outsourcing to deliver new technology initiatives
- Aligns IT procurement and project prioritization with community partnership goals
- Facilitates the university’s ability to utilize and sustain technology donations
#5 IT Service Coordination
- Catalogs all IT Services to identify technology resources available to university-affiliated centers and community partners
- Includes community partnership needs when evaluating IT service provision
- Increases local and regional collaborations to expand technology infrastructure services
#6 Sustaining Technology Investments
- Develops a funding model to maintain and renew technology acquired through grants or community partnerships
- Improves the university’s ability to rapidly implement new technology services that support community initiatives and innovation
#7 IT Awareness and Training
- Collaborates with local and state leaders for cost-effective technical training to meet the needs of UNLV technical staff and IT workforce development
- Leverages the InNEVation Center resources to enhance cross-training and innovative development for technologists from the university, businesses, and the community
#8 Information Security
- Provides IT security consultation for grants and contracts providing community services
- Ensures appropriate IT security for conferences and public events held in UNLV venues
- Assists university-affiliated programs with establishing IT security measures that protect sensitive information and meet compliance standards
#9 iNtegrate 2
- Minimizes manual administrative processes for vendors providing services to the university
- Provides comprehensive data for reporting on issues of interest to community partners
#10 Identity Management and Single Sign-On
- Facilitates collaboration with university-affiliated groups through role-based security
- Expedites the provisioning of university credentials for affiliate faculty and staff
- Increases access to medical resources and library collections at other institutions, strengthening the expertise university-affiliated programs can offer the community
#11 Mobility
- Improves wireless services at conferences and public events held in UNLV venues
- Incentivizes innovative mobile application development to help meet community needs
- Engages civic-minded innovators in mobile application development by increasing open-data initiatives and challenge competitions
#12 Enterprise-wide Document Management
- Assists with e-forms creation, electronic data capture, and automated workflows to increase administration efficiency of university-afflilated programs
- Provides automated records retention compliance for university documents
- Provides university-affiliated centers and community partners with tools to electronically route data and documents
#13 Leveraging Institutional Data
- Creates dashboards showing progress towards Top Tier community partnership goals
- Provides data analytics and reporting tools to better assess UNLV diversity
- Enhances access to university data and reports to support workforce development initiatives
#14 Communication and Collaboration Tools
- Increases visibility into the many UNLV initiatives designed to meet community needs
- Improves the ease of use of UNLV’s website for both on and off campus constituents
- Implements web-conferencing tools to facilitate mentorship
- Maximizes the utilization of existing and new collaboration tools to enhance campus culture
- Implements Customer Relations Management tools for targeted communications with community groups