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 ==**Teaching & Learning in the Digital Future** == ==**1. Strategic Goal:** //Promote active learning across campus for all course types to empower instructors to positively affect student engagement, learning and retention, with attention to access for all.// == ==**Actions:** ==

1. Highlight and promote best practices and model strategies for active learning all types of courses, e.g., face-to-face, blended and online.

2. Support and encourage instructor development of course that employ active learning strategies. (If incentives e.g. course release, funding, grant money, etc are available, the specifics can be added)

3. Provide broad guidelines, criteria/benchmarks to the campus community and charge academic units to further refine the criteria/benchmarks for active learning within their disciplines, assessing student learning relative to active learning strategies. == 4. Develop peer evaluation groups to evaluate active learning in their own and cognate disciplines. == == 5. Promote both formative and summative course evaluations that emphasize the active learning methods specific to the type of course, e.g., face-to-face only, Web-enhanced, blended, online. == == 6. Convene working groups to identify technologies and pedagogical strategies and to establish evaluation criteria to promote active learning, including == - mobile technologies - social networking and collaborative technologies - student-created content - e-texts, Open CourseWare, and third-party vendor course materials

7. Evaluate the necessary infrastructure (technology, support and facilities) for the use of the identified technologies.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">8. Pilot the use of the identified technologies to establish best practices and promote pedagogical models with special attention on the STEM disciplines. == <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">9. Conduct a campus-wide awareness campaign to promote the incorporation of active learning through the effective use of learning technologies == == <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">10. Recognize the effective use of active learning strategies and technologies in the hiring, tenure and promotion processes. == == <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">11. Develop a certificate for graduate students in the use technology to promote active learning in their own disciplinary areas. == ==<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">**2. Strategic Goal:** <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">//Increase open access content development and use for teaching and learning.// == ==<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">**Actions:** == ==<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Constitute Communities-of-Practice to develop and identify Open CourseWare (OCW) for use in the curriculum. == ==<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Offer training for content development and the means of sharing knowledge via OCW repositories. == ==<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Develop and identify repositories and systems to provide access to OCW. == ==<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Explore the Desire2Learn Learning Object Repository and other systems that provide open access and sharing of resources. == ==<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Develop mechanisms to help students create their own content and contribute to open repositories. ==
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==<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">**3. Strategic Goal:** <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">//Increase flexibility in degree programs to respond to market demands.// == ==<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">**Actions:** == ==<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Incentivize departments to collaborate in developing interdisciplinary degrees. Mitigate or eliminate disincentives related to tenure and promotion policies, course credit distribution, pricing and revenue structures, course support, and overall campus culture of rewards and responsiveness to new degree opportunities that lie at the intersections of disciplines. == > > offerings map to community, state, national, and international needs.
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==<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">**4. Strategic Goal:** <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">//Ensure hardware and software accessibility of learning resources inclusive of all needs.// == ==<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">**Actions:** == ==<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Establish campus standards (i.e., web, media, course content, procurement) that meet Section 508 Standards and work toward W3C web standards. == ==<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Establish campus standards for infrastructure capacity and consistency (technology, wireless network). == ==<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Develop campus awareness campaign. == ==<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Provide incentives for faculty to adapt course materials with universal design in mind. == ==<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Provide training and support to faculty to meet this goal (see strategic goal 6). == ==<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Create system to rank and clearly identify course accessibility (class schedule, class website). == ==<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">**5. Strategic Goal:** <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">//Increase access to teaching, learning, and training content at UWM by promoting access to and enhancing asynchronous digital learning resources.// == ==<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Develop mobile applications that are platform neutral for students to access course and business systems (D2L, pay tuition, enroll in classes, location maps to find classes, weather, traffic, current bus location, QR codes on buildings to provide info, etc.) == ==<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Enhance/expand faculty and student opportunities to use mobile devices (mobile device rental program) and expanded wireless data packages/discounts. ==
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==<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">**6. Strategic Goal:** <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">//Provide an online learning environment for instructors and academic staff to showcase and support pedagogical successes.// == ==<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">**Actions:** ==
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 * 5) <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; list-style-type: lower-alpha; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">the ability to produce live streaming audio or video
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 * 9) <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; list-style-type: decimal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Create an “innovation” center with permanent rotating staff to innovate, and research new technologies and methodologies, and to network and provide training and support on the latest emerging technologies (hardware and software) for the campus community to test and evaluate environment for actual production of rich media.

==<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">**7. Strategic Goal:** <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">//Develop a faculty training support plan for the digital future.// == ==<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">**Actions:** == ==<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Develop concrete strategies to market and advertise across campus for existing and new support systems and materials. == ==<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Determine what new technologies are needed to enhance faculty support and plan for implementation. == ==<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Provide awareness, training, tools and support to increase utilization of universal design techniques. ==
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==<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">**8. Strategic Goal:** <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">//Integrate into the general education curriculum the preparation for students to be skilled to meet the digital future, such that UWM becomes known for graduates who have the abilities to be active, creative, critical, and collaborative users of a range of digital technologies. All UWM graduates will understand how to learn independently and critically use new and emerging digital technologies for creating and engaging effectively with social, academic, civic, business, and research communities.// == ==<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">**Actions:** == ==<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Articulate Essential Learning Outcomes (ELOs) around networking and problem solving in the context of new technologies. == ==<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Promote adoption of critical technology literacy into general education/ integrative learning outcomes. == ==<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Across different disciplines/departments/areas develop, implement and evaluate class components or shared classes that support integrative learning and independent and networked problem solving. == <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">9. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">**Strategic Goal** <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">: <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">//Improve digital access for all students and increase student preparedness to participate in digital learning and discovery.// ==<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">**Actions:** ==
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 * 1) <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; list-style-type: decimal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Provide technology skills development and assessment of technology skills at no or low cost; develop a placement exercise for incoming students.
 * 2) <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; list-style-type: decimal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Offer a (summer) information technology bridge program to bring students up to speed.
 * 3) <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; list-style-type: decimal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Increase PROWLnet access on campus.
 * 4) <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; list-style-type: decimal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Create a checklist for high school guidance counselors; distribute at new freshman orientation with further resources/workshops available.
 * 5) <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; list-style-type: decimal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Explore avenues of providing alternative access to hardware, software, broadband, and networks at low or no cost for students with greatest need.
 * 6) <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; list-style-type: decimal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">To better prepare students thinking about coming to UWM, develop opportunities such as high school auditors/entire classes as guests in online classes for a week for college readiness and to support high school teachers.
 * 7) <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; list-style-type: decimal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Create and disseminate a survey to determine students’ technical knowledge baseline upon entry to UWM. This will allow us to prepare training and support materials that best meet the needs of incoming students, including “digital natives.”
 * 8) <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; list-style-type: decimal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Create a checklist for all students that allow them to “compare” their technical knowledge with other students in their school or college. For instance, determine which technologies students should know how to use before they graduate and include them on the checklist. This might be broken down into which years the students should know which tools. For instance: Using Google to perform basic searches would be a year one tool. Using SPSS to do statistical analysis would be a tool taught in the later years, as would using Excel or advanced Video-editing software. Also create a comparison of “Knowledge Level” for technical tools for Faculty and Staff.
 * 9) <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; list-style-type: decimal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Supplement the checklist with customized “discipline by discipline” subcategories of tools needed to be successful upon graduation and ensure that all UWM students have access to training and support to learn how to use such technologies. (For example: How do you use databases, spreadsheets, multimedia, statistical programs, etc.)
 * 10) <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; list-style-type: decimal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Create an assessment of students’ technical skills and then perpetually revise the technical skills curriculum (whether created at UWM or elsewhere ~ i.e. - free internet training) to enable students to use tools that are in demand in the work force. Some of the existing infrastructure might be utilized in this regard (such as e-Portfolio or PantherFile).

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">**Research in the Digital Future**

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">**1. Strategic Goal:** <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Develop open infrastructure and more choices in digital tools <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">**.** <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Large numbers of University faculty and academic staff are seeking access to a greater variety of digital tools that help them communicate and share information with their colleagues and research collaborators. In the past, few options have been available to faculty and staff on campus, and collaboration opportunities have been missed. In other instances, researchers have had to seek outside services and assistance to develop and foster research collaborations. To assist researchers it is essential to provide discipline-specific information on available digital tools. Technical assistance is both necessary and desirable because researchers have various levels of technical knowledge and ability.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">**Actions** > > > > > > >
 * 1) <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; list-style-type: decimal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Increase the number and choices of available intuitive tools
 * 1) <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; list-style-type: lower-alpha; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Perform an environmental scan to obtain specific information on tools currently being used to foster communication and information sharing in individual disciplines. Questionnaires, follow-up interviews, etc.
 * 1) <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; list-style-type: lower-alpha; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Develop and maintain library of available digital tools and their uses
 * 1) <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; list-style-type: lower-alpha; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Explore the campus adoption of widely used "standard" tools such as WordPress, Academia.edu, Google Groups, Drupal, Ning, etc.
 * 1) <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; list-style-type: decimal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Develop policies and procedures for common tools that reflect increased flexibility (i.e. a more open process for decision making)
 * 1) <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; list-style-type: lower-alpha; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Increase the authority of the Information Technology Policy Committee to govern information technology policy on campus
 * 1) <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; list-style-type: lower-alpha; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Formalize the Web Steering Committee and broaden its scope

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">**2. Strategic Goal:** <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Embed digital future visioning in academic departmental culture. While it is a strength of the very nature of typical hiring practices for new faculty – recruiting for the most part newly trained scholars coming out of leading graduate programs – that candidate pools tend to be populated with researchers at the cutting edge of new fields and methods, departments at UWM have not actively articulated visions for how research in their respective academic fields will be changed by the digital future. While there has been substantial disciplinary discussion about how massive data sets, digitally born research and publication, new collaborative possibilities, and cloud-based computing, for examples, are impacting specific fields, departments have not actively considered how emerging tools and fields should change future faculty-line searches. For our academic departments to successfully compete for the best prepared new researchers, they must embrace the opportunities suggested by new research areas and tools (including such broadly different ideas as game-based research to innovative analytics), in order to develop clear plans for how new faculty hires will position departments to make substantial scholarly contributions in the future.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">**Actions:** > >
 * 1) <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; list-style-type: decimal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Each academic department should develop a digital future strategic plan aligning with campus and school/college vision statements. This plan should address the distinctive strengths and opportunities posed by ongoing changes in research areas, tools, and practices in the field.
 * 1) <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; list-style-type: decimal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Position descriptions for new faculty hires should explicitly engage departmental digital future strategic plans. Digital future planning (in terms of research fields, tools, and practices) needs to become part of proposals for new faculty hires in departments.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">**3. Strategic Goal:** <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Include digital futures visioning in promotion and tenure. While some progress in recent years has been made at the disciplinary and even departmental levels to embrace new methods of scholarly research and publication in digital contexts (for example, on-line scholarly journals for digitally born work are being assessed by disciplines for reach and impact), current and future researchers at UWM will face an uncertain promotion and tenure landscape without explicit institutional commitments to embrace the emerging fields, tools, and practices (including publication and dissemination) arising out of new technologies. Major challenges the university faces in this area include economic pressures limiting the ability of departments to exploit new technologies; disciplinary traditions which are skeptical of new areas of research and new practices; and underdeveloped assessment theories and tools to accurately measure scholarly work in digital contexts. Indeed, a major effort in this area must be to develop an assessment analytics (equivalent to emerging learning analytics) sufficient to mine a broad and complex sweep of data for a sense of scholarly impact appropriate to differing academic fields. With critical trends accelerating in collaborative and cloud-based research and dissemination, UWM must assure that its review and promotion practices acknowledge and reward work in emerging digital contexts.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">**Actions:** > > > <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">**4. Strategic Goal:** <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Embrace open access as a research dissemination venue. The Open Access Initiative is a new model of scholarly communication which universities, libraries, and authors across the U.S., as well as Europe, are adopting in order to capture the benefits of the digital revolution for the academic community and the public. More researchers are now publishing in Open Access (OA) journals under a different copyright license allowing free use with proper attribution. (E.g., Creative Commons license.) This lowers the effort and cost of dissemination of research results and makes the results more widely known. Imagine a world with mostly paid database from commercial publishers versus one of primarily open access. Ones own research output would not just be locked in an expensive commercial journal only accessed at select, well-endowed institutions. The information sharing through OA also supports democratization of knowledge by bringing this knowledge to researchers in underprivileged nations as well. One of the core underpinnings of research is sharing of information which in turn leads to new knowledge and discovery. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> In the current situation at UWM, the University invests in faculty research whose research outputs are then turned over to commercial publishers and then university library either purchases high priced journals from these publishers or obtains articles, often at a high cost per article through ILL. So the institution ends up paying doubly for this research but other options now exist. Faculty sign away author rights even to the exclusion of reusing that article in their teaching or posting in D2L The growth of the Internet has destabilized the publishing industry and opened new opportunities for information sharing. Research has shown that open access articles have a greater research impact across all disciplines therefore a direct benefit to the author. An underlying piece of implementing this action is the need to create policies to acknowledge the validity of digital open access publication for promotion and tenure. This is imbedded in goal four. Leading universities such Harvard and California have passed resolutions asking faculty to retain intellectual property rights to their research publications and disseminate them through institutional repositories or OA publishing. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> Furthermore, to make this initiative successful we also need to implement a support structure to facilitate participation in open access publishing through dedicated staff support and incentives for faculty to publish in peer reviewed open access journals. A related need which has arisen during discussion of the participants is the need for UWM to support the publishing of online open access journals, not just articles. UWM can subsidize the operation of journals and repositories populated by our own faculty publications and raise the institutional reputation. We have the opportunity to establish ways of seizing the benefits of the digital revolution for dissemination of research by establishing high status alternative Open Access journals. Last year, Provost Michael Tanner, Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs at the University of Illinois spoke at UWM at Open access Day and stated "Open Access journals need to be hosted by universities" ... who can then recover the cost of maintaining broad access to knowledge. The Taskforce on Open Access and Scholarly Communications is just beginning to address the issues of creating support and awareness of OA publishing as well as investigating ways of initiating peer reviewed open access journal publications. Their work should be endorsed as part of this action item.
 * 1) <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; list-style-type: decimal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Revise promotion and tenure policies at the departmental level to value appropriately work which embraces the research areas, tools, and practices (including publication/dissemination) of the digital future.
 * 1) <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; list-style-type: decimal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Establish rewards for UWM departments, schools, and colleges to encourage collaboration across departments and schools and colleges.
 * 1) <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; list-style-type: decimal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Develop functional and flexible assessment analytics – especially for digitally born work – to provide a robust appraisal for research work appearing in emerging fields using new technologies, tools, and practices.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">**5. Strategic goal:** <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Expand UWM’s research cyberinfrastructure to foster computational research and virtual collaborations. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">**Actions:**
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; list-style-type: disc; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Establish a research cyber infrastructure governance/steering structure
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; list-style-type: circle; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">develop strategic direction
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; list-style-type: circle; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">provide ongoing oversight
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; list-style-type: circle; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">champion and facilitate participation and usage
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; list-style-type: disc; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Enhance staffing for research cyber infrastructure (CI) facilitators
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; list-style-type: circle; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">support researchers with ongoing research activities, utilizing appropriate balance of on-premise and “cloud” services
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; list-style-type: circle; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">provide consultancy services for research proposals
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; list-style-type: disc; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Establish a research “commons”
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; list-style-type: circle; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">support virtual organizations
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; list-style-type: circle; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">provide virtual collaboration services, e.g., videoconferencing, other online collaboration tools
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; list-style-type: circle; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">facilitate development of communities of expertise
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; list-style-type: circle; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">create a repository of research cyber infrastructure capabilities and activities
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; list-style-type: circle; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">share knowledge via workshops, seminars and brown bags etc.
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; list-style-type: disc; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Enhance/develop computational resources
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; list-style-type: circle; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">enhance existing high-performance compute cluster service
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; list-style-type: circle; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">develop skills, knowledge and facilitation support for “cloud” research services
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; list-style-type: circle; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">develop data visualization services
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; list-style-type: circle; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">coordinate data center facility usage, support and enhancement
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; list-style-type: disc; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Develop research data management processes, support, services
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; list-style-type: disc; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Upgrade/enhance high-speed network connectivity as required
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; list-style-type: disc; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Continue to utilize governance/steering structure to evaluate and recommend campus strategic direction for research cyber infrastructure
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; list-style-type: circle; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">implement, enhance and sunset services as recommended by campus governance/steering
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; list-style-type: disc; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Continue to enhance research CI staffing as required
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; list-style-type: disc; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Continue to upgrade/enhance high-speed network connectivity solution as required
 * 1) <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; list-style-type: decimal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">**<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">**References:** **
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; list-style-type: disc; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">UWM Campus Cyberinfrastructure Working Group Report, July 2009 <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">[]
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; list-style-type: disc; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Agee, Anne, Theresa Rowe, Melissa Woo, David Woods. “Building Research Cyberinfrastructure at Small/Medium Research Institutions.” EDUCAUSE Quarterly Magazine. Volume 33, Number 3. 2010. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">[]
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; list-style-type: disc; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Cyberinfrastructure Advisory Framework, A Net@EDU Campus Cyberinfrastructure Working Group White Paper. EDUCAUSE/Net@EDU. October 2008. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">[]

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">**University Operations and Services in the Digital Future** <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">**1. Strategic Goal: Students & Community** <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Enhance services and sense of community for online students – provide comparable support services for online students - will benefit ALL students.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">**Actions:** > > > > >
 * 1) <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; list-style-type: decimal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Hold campus-wide conference for student services in order to set minimum standards of online presence, synchronous communication and social media presence and usage.
 * 1) <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; list-style-type: decimal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Examine and implement models of centralized support for technology innovation for student services.
 * 1) <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; list-style-type: decimal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Investigate student services that can’t currently be utilized by online-only students and assure that all student services can occur in an accessible online environment.
 * 1) <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; list-style-type: decimal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Create a one-stop student services website.
 * 1) <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; list-style-type: decimal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Develop and implement minimum standards for online presence for student service areas.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">**2. Strategic Goal:** <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Increase capacity to work remotely. Since large portions of people’s work are of a digital nature, including collaborations with others, it is often not necessary to be physically on campus to meet responsibilities any more than students need to be physically on campus to participate in the virtual portions of hybrid classes. Extraneous commuting to campus by employees increases the University’s carbon footprint and highway congestion. Remote work capabilities are necessary in the event of a weather emergency, pandemic illness or other situation that requires activation of the University’s Continuity of Operations plans.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">**Actions:**
 * 1) <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; list-style-type: decimal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Identify scalable models and policies for working remotely that have proven successful at other institutions.
 * 2) <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; list-style-type: decimal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Develop and revise policies, procedures and guidelines that will facilitate remote work by staff/faculty, set reasonable expectations for work-life balance and change campus processes and work practices to eliminate reliance upon paper.
 * 3) <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; list-style-type: decimal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Determine campus infrastructure needs to support opportunities for staff and faculty to work remotely and adopt technologies for collaboration and working remotely that can scale to widespread use by faculty and staff.
 * 4) <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; list-style-type: decimal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Provide training and support for effective work practices in remote and mobile environments.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">**3. Strategic Goal:** <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Create a paperless system that is adaptable to various constituents (acknowledging differing cognitive and physical abilities) and technology constraints across UW-System and the State of Wisconsin. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> > > > > >
 * Actions:**
 * 1) <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; list-style-type: decimal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Study and analyze existing paperless departments, document business processes, and review/revise archival policies, procedures - determination of electronic storage space
 * 1) <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; list-style-type: decimal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Conduct usability testing during process
 * 1) <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; list-style-type: decimal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Assessment of existing digital signature tools/applications
 * 1) <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; list-style-type: decimal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Digital Signature standardization across UW-System/State
 * 1) <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; list-style-type: decimal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Paperless Department Pilot Projects in action - student and administrative paperless system implementations

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">**4. Strategic Goal:** <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Establish an accessible “landing zone” to aggregate related standards and practices similar to UW-Madison’s <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #800080; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">[|__How-to__] <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> pages from Business Services and the University of Washington’s <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #800080; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">[|__information management community forum__] <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">**Actions:**
 * 1) <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; list-style-type: decimal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Perform discovery process for existing documents in each category
 * 2) <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; list-style-type: decimal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Identify resources needed to maintain landing zone
 * 3) <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; list-style-type: decimal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Identify categories/topics to aggregate/group (e.g., HR policies; should be grouped by function, not unit; role-based pages) and determine if aggregation for categories can be automated
 * 4) <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; list-style-type: decimal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Define standard delivery/storage methods to use for landing zone
 * 5) <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; list-style-type: decimal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Identify gaps and develop documents/materials to address gaps

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">**5. Strategic Goal:** <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Adopt an institutional culture that focuses on the overall well-being of the University. Considerable time, effort and funding is spent by University units endeavoring to optimize their programs and services regardless of the possible impact on other campus units.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">**Actions:**
 * 1) <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; list-style-type: decimal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee leadership at every level will operate in a spirit of collaboration, focusing on the benefits to the University as a whole. To facilitate this culture, effective processes will be implemented in each unit, department, school, and college for the evaluation of all decisions and actions for their contribution to the institution's overall initiatives and priorities.
 * 2) <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; list-style-type: decimal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Professional development activities will be provided that help employees understand and appreciate the nature and importance of the work done by units other than their own.
 * 3) <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; list-style-type: decimal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">University will adopt a culture of continuous process improvement that includes documenting business processes and making them available in an electronic repository.
 * 4) <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; list-style-type: decimal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Non-academic units will do digital future planning in parallel to that being done in academic units.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">**6. Strategic Goal:** <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Major investments in information systems will be prioritized on a campus level via a transparent process that is open to members of the campus community. There is currently no overall process for deciding which information systems are the most critical for the success of the institution. Systems are purchased without sufficient understanding of the requirements that need to be met and the potential impacts on staff and resources in other departments. Funding spent on sub-optimal or duplicate information technology systems diminishes the investments that can be made in other critical systems. Having institutional governance, and not just central IT, engaged in prioritizing IT projects is a well-known, best practice for gaining more impact from IT investments. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">
 * Actions:**
 * 1) <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; list-style-type: decimal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">A campus-wide process will be implemented to prioritize the purchase and implementation of major IT systems.
 * 2) <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; list-style-type: decimal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The implementation major IT systems will be communicated to the campus community.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">**7. Strategic Goal:** <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Develop and implement service levels by which quality of service can be measured.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">**Actions:**
 * 1) <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; list-style-type: decimal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Identify services
 * 2) <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; list-style-type: decimal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Set criteria for service prioritization
 * 3) <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; list-style-type: decimal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Prioritize services
 * 4) <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; list-style-type: decimal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Define metrics
 * 5) <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; list-style-type: decimal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Develop and implement service levels

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">**8. Strategic Goal:** <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Standardize workflows/processes to facilitate digitization. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">**Actions:**
 * 1) <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; list-style-type: decimal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Identify workflows/processes that could be standardized to increase efficiency/effectiveness
 * 2) <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; list-style-type: decimal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Determine common best practices
 * 3) <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; list-style-type: decimal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Develop workflows/processes