ITS Programs and Projects In addition to information technology operational activities, ITS staff are involved in projects to support UCSC’s teaching, research, and business activities. This list of projects offers you a view of those projects with information technology components and includes:
- Proposed projects – These are projects under initial review and pending resource allocations
- Approved projects – These are projects approved by ITS and pending official launch
- Active projects – These projects have been launched and are currently in progress
- Closed projects – These projects are closed or completed and in production
This project list also provides links to additional project information. Project management tools and resources are available at:
Project Templates.
We welcome your comments and questions. Please contact Marion Bashista at 459-1614.
Last updated on August 2009
| Current Major Projects |
| Project |
Description |
Status |
Start |
Est End |
Project Manager |
| Dark Fiber |
Increase of broadband access for the UCSC campus. Provides a secondary source of connectivity for the campus. |
Active |
January 2008 |
September 2009 |
Chuck Greer |
| Chancellor’s Office and Affiliated Units (COAST) Technology Consolidation |
Develop a strategy, service agreement, and architecture for the existing COAST server farm to a more robust data center with power, conditioned air and facilitate the consolidation of the 35 servers into an adequate level of processing and storage capacity. |
Active |
May 2008 |
December 2009 |
Joe Nehls |
| Web Content Management System (WCMS) |
Project goals are to gather requirements from campus constituents to evaluate, select and purchase a WCMS solution that will meet key requirements for web content management and presentation. Develop joint operating requirements and procedures for web services created by sharing a common WCMS. Implement a new web content management system. And migrate top-tier and select departmental websites to the new WCMS. |
Active |
October 2008 |
February 2010 |
Leslie Geary |
| Web Presence & Services Program |
This program will coordinate a series of web-related projects designed to stabilize and improve the campus processes, roles, tools, and services that support a broad set of critical communication functions, and contribute directly to campus-level strategies and objectives. |
Active |
October 2008 |
February 2010 |
David Turner |
| Web Service Definition |
Define, articulate, and launch (as necessary) services to support campus web presence. |
Active |
April 2009 |
December 2009 |
David Turner |
| Web Function and Design |
Evaluate and recommend function and design of top tier campus sites. Produce a suite of web templates to update and improve look and feel. Establish and publish design standards for navigation, branding, interoperability, and compliance with policies and regulations. |
Proposed |
Jan. 09 |
Dec. 09 |
David Turner |
| Campus Curriculum and Leave Planning (Campus CLP) |
This project will implement a Campus CLP system that will provide department managers, department chairs, and deans with a uniform ability to consistently manage faculty curriculum and leave, preserving the functionality of the existing FileMaker Pro CLP. In addition, provide information to manage curriculum capacity planning in support of students’ degree objectives and have the ability to manage support for GenEd courses associated with the above degree objectives at the campus level. |
Active |
April 2009 |
April 2010 |
Corinne O'Connell |
| Sakai Implementation |
The objective of this project is to implement a new Learning Management System, Sakai CLE, having a production-ready system by Winter 2010 that integrates with the Academic Information System (AIS), the current student information system, and the Identity Management System (IdM) for user authentication services. |
Active |
May 2009 |
February 2010 |
Joe Nehls
Robin Ove |
| Gmail for Students |
The purpose of this project is to establish an optional email service for students that will be branded as a UCSC email service but managed by Google, Inc. through their Google Applications for Education service. |
Active |
May 2009 |
March 2010 |
Steve Kennedy |
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