University IT Strategic Plan Published

The University of Kentucky’s IT Strategic Plan is now available online. The comprehensive plan is designed to enable UK to continue in the creative use, application and provisioning of IT in support of UK’s Strategic Plan – The UK-PURPOSE.  

The IT Strategic Plan reflects more than 300 students, faculty and staff members who participated in focus groups, interviews and surveys in spring/summer of 2022.  It aims to provide a roadmap for technology, infrastructure and IT services that will enable UK’s continued growth. 

UK Information Technology Services (UK ITS) staff, along with key partners and stakeholders, have started pursuing key areas of recommendation and action items to advance and enhance IT infrastructure and services.  

“We continue to be at a crossroads of unprecedented change, both an uncertain and unpredictable future – perhaps a tipping point - because of this there is no better time to evaluate where we are now and where we want to be in the years ahead – to define our IT drive and our PURPOSE,” said UK Chief Information Officer Brian Nichols.    

Critical to UK’s success in effectively utilizing IT is to adopt a view that it is a fundamental asset of the institution. Imperative to this is the concept of IT Abundance – where information technology is current, advanced, readily available and adopted to facilitate and support UK’s students, faculty, and staff within their respective assignments, disciplines and tasks.  

The value in an environment featuring IT Abundance is that it redefines what it is possible to do in teaching and learning, research and innovation and in the efficient and effective operation of resources across the UK enterprise.