IR Strategic Initiatives

Completed Objectives

ES-2: Implement two additional servers for the Angel Learning System to be used in conjunction with the F5 load balancing device to assure increased stability, reliability, and availability of our enterprise course management system by August 2007. (DA)
ES-3: Evaluate, select, and implement an ePortfolio system that meets campus portfolio needs by June 2008. (DA)
ES-5: Prepare plans and cost estimates for expanding the Computer-Based Testing Center to accommodate the School of Medicine in a single seating (currently requires two seatings) with a view towards extending the CBTC by August 2008. (KC, DA)
ES-6: Pilot use of secure browser testing through Angel Learning with a view towards some level of adoption by the schools particularly for formative applications (completed August 2007). (DA)
ES-12: Acquire and deploy an E-Resource/software licensing management application by June 2008. (KC)
ES-16: Support the Division of Graduate Medical Education transition from the AKCIA GME management system to a new product, possible including clerkship management functionality. (JB)
ES-20: Assist the School of Medicine in acquiring, implementing, and manageing e-texts for students. (KC)
ES-21: Work with all of the schools and the hospital to identify and support clinical resources for teaching and use in the clnical setting. (KC)

RS-2: Expand both Internet1 and Internet2 bandwidth as necessary to support collaborative research and sharing of research data sets by September 2007. (MF)
RS-4: Implement a simple, web-based system to enable the sharing of large files across the Internet, both with KU researchers and researchers at other universities, by Septermber 2007. (MF)
RS-6: Attend to developments within the automated search domain with a view towards identifying new search technologies to search the digital repositories and other related digital resources including those with variant data formats by June 2008. (KC)
RS-7: Design and implement a “digital drop box” to enable local researchers to submit grant proposals in electronic format to the Research Institute in preparation for their final submission to NIH/NSF via grants.gov protocols by spring 2007. (JW)

AS-15: Evaluate the document management functionality of SharePoint/InfoPath server to determine whether we should replace the Stellent application with comparable SharePoint functionality by spring 2008. (JB)
AS-16: Implement a PeopleSoft module to track data related to Centers by summer 2008 (CSP, JB))
AS-17: Implement a method to enter KU faculty in HR prior to (or without needing) an actual adjunct appointment to work on a KUMC grant by November 2007. (JB)

PC-1a: Begin implementing Office 2007 in early 2007. (MF)
PC-2: Support the School of Medicine in moving from a Palm device for students to a smart phone by May 2008. (JLB, MF)
PC-3: Assist the School of Medicine in identifying or developing suitable logging software for clerkship use that runs on the Windows Mobile platform. (JB, JW)
PC-4: Implement “group policies” across the network by March 31, 2007. (MF, SC)
PC-6: Implement Citrix thin client technology on a limited basis in FY2008. (KC)

NC-2: Design our next-generation network (design to be completed by June 2007). (MF)
NC-9: Complete our initial campus-wide wireless implementation by March 31 2008. (MF)
NC-10: Evaluate possible re-architecting of the wireless network so that less secure connections such as student tablet connections can be sequestered onto separate media by December 31 2008. (MF)
NC-13: Implement wireless access to GoPrint for printing only in the Library, Orr-Major, and Student Center by June 2008. (MF)

Te-1: Implement the Biomedical Research Building as KUMC’s first exclusively IP telephony building by January 31 2007. (MF)

IA-1: Implement Microsoft Certificate Server as an internal means of providing digital certificates and deploy to all employees by the end of 2007. (This objective directly supports objectives CC-1 and AS-9). (CSP, JW, MF)
IA-4: Implement web-based “single sign-on” by December 2006. (JW)
IA-5: Implement federated authentication by spring 2008. (JW)
IA-6: Provide myKUMC portal access to services for former students and alumni by spring 2007. (CSP, JW)

IS-1a: By June 30 2007, identify every laptop, tablet, or PDA used to access or store personal identity or protected health information and install on that device (1) software that encrypts all data on the device and (2) “Computrace” software that “calls home” (as it were) in the event that a stolen computer is attached to the network anywhere in the world; this software also enables us to erase the data on that computer at our discretion. (SC)
IS-1b: By June 30, 2007, install Computrace “call home” software on all other laptops and tablets supported by the Computrace application. (SC)
IS-2: Conduct an information campaign at KUMC focused on mobile device security using posters; presentations at department and chairs meetings, brown bag noon meetings, and other similar opportunities; and related strategies by February 2007. (SC)
IS-3: Build a comprehensive inventory of computing devices (laptops, desktops, tablets, PDAs) used by KUMC employees and those issued to students by KUMC schools by May 2007. (SC)
IS-5: Upgrade our firewall by December 31 2008 concomitantly with the network upgrade described in NC-2 – NC-5 above. (MF)
IS-6: Evaluate options for host-based intrusion detection and decide whether to implement by December 31 2007. (SC)

EI-2: Implement redundant network connections for all servers with high-availability requirements by December 31 2007. (MF)
EI-3: Implement a testing environment that simulates/”replicates” our actual technical (“production”) environment by spring 2007. (MF)

KC-2: Develop a new web site designed for students focusing on services available to them and new developments in the student technology arena at KUMC. (JLB)