Building Our Future: The Strategic Planning Process
UIT began assembling these Strategic Priorities in March 2024. We examined the latest IT trends in higher education alongside the goals of the university and proposed 11 priority areas. Then, we surveyed faculty, staff and students to rank these and propose any additions for consideration. Nearly 140 participants contributed to these Strategic Priorities. The results of the survey are shown below:
| RANK | STRATEGIC PRIORITY | SCORE |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Information Security and Risk Management | 2.76 |
| 2 | Network Connectivity | 2.71 |
| 3 | Collaboration & Unified Communications | 2.56 |
| 4 | Data Management & Analytics | 2.52 |
| 5 | Shared Services | 2.43 |
| 6 | Data Center Cloud Integration | 2.38 |
| 7 | Academic Technologies | 2.34 |
| 8 | Artificial Intelligence (AI Integration) | 2.20 |
| 9 | Expanding Access: Remote Learning & UH Go | 2.14 |
| 10 | Research Computing | 2.00 |
| 11 | Internet of Things (IoT) | 1.94 |
For each Strategic Priority, we then conducted a gap analysis to identify where we are today in alignment with state and university goals, where we see ourselves in the future and how we will get there. This document presents the results of these efforts.