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Overview of Queen’s. Established 1841 Number of Full-Time Students = 15,717 Academic Staff = 991 Other Staff = 2,201 Alumni 123,142 in 150 countries Operating Expenses $252.5 million Research Funding = $133.1 million Market Value of Endowments = $429.5 m. Queen’s Academic Units.
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Overview of Queen’s • Established 1841 • Number of Full-Time Students = 15,717 • Academic Staff = 991 • Other Staff = 2,201 • Alumni 123,142 in 150 countries • Operating Expenses $252.5 million • Research Funding = $133.1 million • Market Value of Endowments = $429.5 m
Queen’s Academic Units • Faculty of Arts and Science • Faculty of Applied Science • School of Business • Faculty of Education • Faculty of Health Science (including Medicine, Nursing and Rehab) • Faculty of Law • School of Graduate Studies and Research • Queen’s Theological College (affiliate)
IT Structure • Distributed support environment • Central responsibility for core infrastructure and services • Distributed support within many faculties and departments • Evolved to include some infrastructure • Pendulum swinging back to having ITServices be the provider
ITServices Responsibilities • Central Organization Reports to VP (Operations and Finance) • Approximately 100 FT staff, 50 PT staff • IT Support Centre (phone, walk-in, on-site) • Learning Technology Unit • Video Multimedia and Audio Visual Services • Central Servers and Operations • Networking and Telecom • Campus Sales and Service (hardware and software) • Administration • Education and Communications • University Information Systems
Top Three Challenges over next 1-3 Years • Security • Enterprise Infrastructure Development • Administrative Information Systems
Impact of Double Cohort and Lessons Learned • Impact = Negligible • Lessons Learned? • Focus on the important • Saying No to preserve core?
“Finding the Balance” Keeping the Trains Running: • Some unavoidable, especially security But, to Ensure Strategic Development: • Recognize true cost of human resources • Introduce self service techniques, reevaluate processes • Push operational to lowest skilled (cost) resources possible. • Guard freed resources for strategic development • Use capital $ to offset HR costs (e.g. Include implementation or support on new projects) • Use of IT service management practices • Say No! where possible • Share!