Campus Engagement
Campus Engagement
Revised June 29, 2016
Campus Champion InstitutionsStandard – 119EPSCoR States – 73Minority Serving Institutions – 15EPSCoR States and Minority Serving Institutions – 10Total Campus Champion Institutions – 217
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Who are the champions?
• HPC Directors• System Administrators• User Support specialists• Faculty evangelists• Central IT staff• Non-academic organization staff, e.g. USGS, USDA-
ARS, KINBER, Idaho National Lab• Plus friends of the family
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Champions are also:
• CASC members• XSEDE Level 3 Service providers • ACI-REFs• BD Hub participants• OSG facilitators• Linux Clusters Institute learners and instructors• Software/Data Carpentry instructors & hosts• State/regional collaborators (e.g. OneOklahoma
Cyberinfrastructure Initiative)
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What do champions do?
• Facilitate computing- and data-intensive research and education;
• Help their local researchers and educators to find and use the advanced digital services that best meet their needs;
• Share CI challenges and solutions.(at all levels: workgroup, institutional, regional, national, and international)
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Campus Engagement• New umbrella: Champion Program plus new
stuff• Co-managers: Dana Brunson & Henry Neeman• Deputy Manager & Champion coordinator:
Kay Hunt• Regional coordinator (and more): Jeff Pummill• Supporters from ECSS:
– Phil Blood– Jay Alameda
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Campus Engagement Goals• Increase scalable, sustainable institutional
uptake of advanced digital services from providers at all levels;
• Foster a broader, deeper, more agile, more sustainable and more diverse nationwide cyberinfrastructure ecosystem;
• Cultivate inter-institutional interchange of resources, expertise and support;
• Sustain this community beyond XSEDE.
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New task forces
• Sustainability– Make the Champions more robust, resilient
and comprehensive– Already underway– Chair: Dana Brunson
• Welcome Wagon – Mentor new champions – Chair: Kay Hunt
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Other new activities
• Promote intrastate CI collaboration• Deepen and extend campus engagement
(CIOs, VPRs, Diversity Officers, etc.)• Develop and extend collaboration activities
(within and beyond XSEDE)• Update the website & wiki!
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Campus Engagement Mission Statement
The Campus Engagement program promotes and facilitates the effective participation of a diverse national community of campuses in the application of advanced digital resources and services to accelerate scientific discovery and scholarly achievement.
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Metrics
• Number of Institutions with a Champion• Number of unique contributors to the
Champion email list ([email protected])
• Number of activities that (i) expand the emerging CI workforce and/or (ii) improve the extant CI workforce, participated in by members of the Campus Engagement team.