Resilience. Designed to Thrive

Increased faculty representation on the President’s Budget Advisory Committee (PBAC)

Created SDSU Budget Hub as a central location to host budget information including budget committee updates, budget processes, budget dashboards, budget reports, and budget training resources. Continued to provide budget update communications and hosted budget town hall meetings.

• Assess current space utilization and allocation practices, integrate lessons learned from the global pandemic, and explore best practices to increase strategic and effective use of space (i.e., use of hoteling spaces, shared labs, multi-year planning for new faculty, etc.)
  
  
• Recommend a process for considering proposed reallocation of space when/if space becomes available and develop document templates and procedures to ensure uniformity and engender trust and transparency for space transactions.
  
  
• Recommend alternate budget resource and space support models via benchmarking of peer and aspirational institutions and consultation support by a third-party firm.
  
  
• Support the development of transparent, consistent processes and policies for reviewing space utilization going forward.

• Shared Services implementation plan for procure-to-pay functions in College of Sciences.

• With a goal of unifying Information Technology at San Diego State University (SDSU), a new position of Chief Information Officer (CIO) was established in 2019. Reporting directly to the University President, the CIO is the senior technology strategist and leader for the university. The CIO provides direct oversight of the University’s technology infrastructure, enterprise systems and services, and serves as a member of the President’s Cabinet. The CIO works in close collaboration with senior leadership to help shape the vision, provide policy direction, and lead in the development of strategies in technology to support and advance the University’s strategic goals in educational, research, and administrative functions.  The CIO has primary responsibility for the delivery of campus wide IT solutions and overall operational effectiveness of technology on campus. With a focus on assessing the effective investment in and use of technology, and improving the efficiency of SDSU through technology solutions, the CIO position analyzes, prioritizes, and develops immediate and long-term strategies. The CIO provides managerial oversight for all IT units including academic and research technology, administrative computing, campus hardware and software, and user services; and develops and controls annual operating budget for IT to ensure it is consistent with overall strategic objectives of the University. 

• The decision to formally integrate various campus IT services into a unified OneIT Community was made following an external assessment of industry best practices. Establishing the OneIT Community addresses findings from both the most recent WASC report, as well as the 2017 Moran Technology Consulting report “External Review of University IT Resources.” This decision was supported by the 2018 “Research & Creative Activities IT Survey” conducted by the Division of Academic Affairs and was announced to the campus community via a Strategic Communications press release. 
  
  
• The creation of this unified OneIT Community resulted in increased efficiency and collaboration across IT personnel. This includes prioritizing funding to support mission critical resources, such as the SDSU Data Center. Establishing the OneIT Community also made possible the consolidation of help-desk support across all colleges and IT units through the implementation of the ServiceNow service management tool. These enhancements resulted in more reliable and consistent information technology governance, infrastructure, access, and support.