Information Services: Guiding Principles

• Timely, seamless, and integrated access to information is critical to the pursuit of excellence in all academic, research, and administrative matters.
• Imaginative applications of information technology should be sought eagerly to improve learning and to strengthen communication in all areas of University life.
• Information technology is a strategic means for providing a communications environment that enables open and participatory relationships among all University constituencies, both internal and external.
• Information technology should enhance education and the personally broadening benefits of a University of Portland education.
• Information technology should contribute to achieving balanced social, personal, and cognitive development.
• Information technology should promote and support an environment that encourages teamwork among all constituencies.
• An information technology governance structure that involves the University’s executive leadership, provides for ongoing academic and administrative ownership of technology issues, and that is charged with overseeing the continued alignment of information technology with institutional goals, is vital to the success of a strategic plan for information technology.
• Information technology should enable administrators, faculty, students, and staff to execute appropriate administrative processes and generate strategic information more directly and more effectively.
• Information technology should be used to promote user self-sufficiency and support efficient University operations to enable more effective use of resources.
• Information technology should amplify avenues of instruction in all aspects of teaching and learning.
• Community members should adhere to a standards-based technology environment for non-specialized academic and administrative needs.
• The information technology standards-based environment should be systematically enhanced, supported, maintained, and assessed.
• Information technology should capture University generated learning, research, scholarship and team projects.