January 30, 2015 All Articles 0
Check out the video of my recent interview with Vice President Pamela Brown – Institutional Research and Academic Planning – about the new UC Information Center. She and her team, in partnership with IT, are creating a fascinating, online…
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January 13, 2015 All Articles 0
Institutional Research and Academic Planning (IRAP) has launched the UC Information Center beta site. The site is intended for the public and will tell the UC story through data, enabling interactive visualizations and providing raw data for download. VP…
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December 18, 2014 All Articles 1
I’ve spoken a lot about shared services and greater cross-location collaboration since joining the University last year. UCPath, the common payroll/HR system, will represent our most aggressive step toward shared IT services the UC has ever undertaken. Significant progress has…
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December 18, 2014 All Articles 0
A number of UC folks from most campuses attended the Shared Services & Process Improvement for Higher Education & Government Summit, November 17-18, in San Diego. The sessions were all about understanding the potential for and optimizing the implementation…
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August 29, 2014 All Articles 0
August 29, 2014 Lawrence Livermore National Lab I accompanied Bill Tucker, interim vice president for research, to Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) to discuss how we can strengthen UC’s working relationship with the lab. Bill was focused on their…
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August 28, 2014 All Articles 0
August 28, 2014 San Francisco I attended the Nexenta OpenSDx Summit in San Francisco where President Napolitano was a featured speaker. She emphasized the importance of basic research and higher education’s significant contributions to basic research. She also talked…
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August 5, 2014 UCSF I attended the annual UC Computing Services Conference held this year at UCSF, August 4-5, and also had the pleasure of presenting the UC IT Leadership Council’s Sautter Awards for Innovation in Information Technology. Be…
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July 31, 2014 UC Merced UC Merced CIO Ann Kovalchick invited me to join the Merced leadership in a briefing at Cisco to discuss developing a strategic direction for technology to align with UCM’s 2020 long-range plan. All UCM vice…
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Team: I’ve been asked by managers to elaborate and provide more context to my blog entry and talk about the specific approach to performance management. I am a strong proponent of performance management that is fair but, at the…
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June 13, 2014 UCLA I love my visits to UCLA because I always feel like I am the student, learning more about higher education. UCLA has long been a thought leader in student engagement and success, which is being enabled…
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