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Features of a Successful Distributed
Support Model
Arts & Sciences Duke University
EDUCAUSE Mid-Atlantic Regional Conference
Baltimore, January 16, 2003
Overview
• The proposition
• Background
• Broad strokes
• Mechanics
• Successes
• Current challenges
How to….
• Provide comprehensive & transparent services to faculty
• Meet individual needs
• Maximize limited resources
• Support both high-end users & newbies
• Foster growth for IT staff
• Anticipate needs
• Shape priorities
Symbiotic Balance
• Need to listen for what faculty need
• Need to lead - open possibilities and guide through choices
• Need to harness the energy of IT staff
• Need dynamic synchronization
Communication
About Duke University IT
• 9 schools with individual IT orgs
• Center for Instructional Technology
• Office for Information Technology supports 6,300 undergrads, telecom and enterprise apps
Ancient History
• Central acad & admin orgs
• Mainframe computing
• Good infrastructure planning
• Insufficient department level support
• Lots of “funny money”
• Lack of real money
Dahntay Jones, www.goduke.com
Home of the Blue Devils
Academic Council
• Advisory Committee on Academic Computing
– ACAC
– ACACAC
• Series of reports established principles
• Dissolved itself in protest (1992)
Advent of President Nan Keohane
1993/1994
• Requested IT report
• Joint faculty/admin committee
• Appointed search committee for VPIT/CIO
• Combined acad & admin orgs
President Keohane
A&S Computing1993
• Assistant Dean appointed• No A&S Computing budget• Departmental IT staff: 14 FTE• The plan: write a plan
Broad Strokes
Simple Idea
• Make decisions as close as possible to the user
• Centralize vanilla services
• Create structure to allow transparent movement between central and decentralized services and resources