The following are the foundational recommendations (goals) formulated from feedback provided by students, faculty, and staff who were nominated and/or appointed to serve on one of the five IT strategic planning task forces. Recommendation 1: Student Experience and Success The University should provide and support plentiful IT resources in the living and learning environment that empower and enhance the experiences of students and contribute to student success when used effectively and profusely. Recommendation 2: Teaching and Learning Enablement The University should develop and enhance IT resources that encourage adoption, through effective and widespread use by faculty in teaching, enabling students’ academic achievement. Recommendation 3: Research Enablement The University should develop, maintain, and ensure broad utilization of IT resources that empower and advance discovery, and support partnership, entrepreneurship, and innovation when effectively utilized by faculty in research. Recommendation 4: IT and the Enterprise The University should develop and maintain plentiful IT resources and acquire (or develop) and arrange for (or deploy) applications, enterprise systems, and tools that facilitate the efficient and effective function of the University. Recommendation 5: Governance and Communication The University should cultivate engaging, active, and impactful communication methods as well as establish a strategic IT governance structure. These will enable continued engagement of the University community in the creation and deployment of strategic recommendations and subsequent projects, supporting ongoing operation of IT resources. Such structures should expand and transform the exchange of information between the central IT organization and the University community. Recommendation 6: Infrastructure The University should construct and sustain a comprehensive, innovative, protected, and fruitful IT infrastructure (including but not limited to networks, software, facilities, and hardware) capable of supporting extensive and effective use by students, faculty, and staff. RECOMMENDATIONS 7 | EmpoweringTransformation