Meeting Schedule, Agendas & Notes
Governance committee meeting schedules, agendas, and notes are available on the IT Governance calendar.
Charge
The purpose of the Technology Foundations Committee (TFC) is to ensure effective and efficient foundational technology strategies for the University, employing appropriate frameworks to make University strategic decisions about technology infrastructure, innovation, equipment, hardware, services, and applications, including smart campus and artificial intelligence.
TFC operates in advisory and decision-making capacities, sometimes in cooperation with other governance committees (oriented around other areas such as applications, data, and security). Central activities for which the Committee is responsible include the following:
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Reviewing opportunities, financial strategies, considering innovation, and risks for multi-year technology foundations strategies.
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Facilitating executive input into campus incentives, policies, and standards that will broadly impact the campus.
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Recommending specific courses of investment, disinvestment, prioritization, funding, and responses to technology design and infrastructure, where at least one of these criteria is met:
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Multiple stakeholder groups with conflicting preferences.
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Costs to UC Berkeley are expected to exceed $5M over three years.
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Decisions will establish a new or de facto campus standard or strategy.
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Change in technology or a dependent service impacts > 3,000 people.
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Request made to TFC (by ITSC or one of its voting members).
As a governance body, the committee is responsible for evaluating and reporting on its central activities. The committee provides an annual report to the ITSC that includes key metrics from its activity, interprets the metrics and their relationship to fulfilling the University's strategic priorities, and makes recommendations for future work.
TFC Membership
Committee members are responsible for attending meetings and initiating the analytical work necessary to fulfill the committee’s purposes via ad hoc and standing workgroups. Working groups will be convened to respond to specific needs related to advancing the strategic use of technology at Berkeley as described above. The committee will determine which standing groups to establish.
The Committee's voting members are senior-level stakeholders (generally AVC or director-level and above) representing major functional areas of the University who are not technical experts. When needed, technical analysis will be performed by subject matter experts in workgroups chartered by TFC, who will present to the committee. TFC voting members are expected to consider strategic tradeoffs and render decisions on strategy, investment, and prioritization decisions.
Co-Chairs
- Marissa Gardner Saraf, Senior Assistant Dean of Administration and Finance, College of Chemistry
- Sharon Inkelas, Special Faculty Advisor to the Chancellor on Campus Welfare; Deputy Compliance Officer; Distinguished Professor, Linguistics
Members
- Anne Marie Richard, Chief Academic Technology Officer and Executive Director of Research, Teaching, and Learning
- Bill Allison, Chief Technology Officer
- Bill Bacon, CIO, SALLEX
- Eugene Whitlock, Chief People & Culture Officer
- Jennifer Sierras, CTO, University Development and Alumni Relations
- Kenneth Lutz, Chief Research IT Officer
- Khira Griscavage, Chief Ethics, Risk & Compliance Officer and Chief of Staff to the Chancellor
- Maria Garcia-Alvarez, Director, Space Planning Division of Academic Planning
- Mike Riley, AVC and Controller
- Russell Chung, Chief Procurement Officer
- Sally McGarrahan, Associate Vice Chancellor, Facilities Services
- Seamus Wilmot, Associate Vice Chancellor and Executive Director of Business Operations
- (TBD) Academic Senate CAPRA representative
Ex-Officio Members (Non-Voting)
- Faye Snowden, Executive Director for Technology Programs and Governance, Berkeley IT
- Robin Pappas, IT Governance Program Manager, Berkeley IT
- Tracy Shinn, Associate Vice Chancellor for IT and Chief Information Officer
TFC Subcommittee: Productivity and Collaboration Tools (PCTC)
Charge
The Productivity and Collaboration Tools (PCTC) Governance Committee provides strategic oversight and functional review of a portfolio of technologies used pervasively and funded through campus-wide and consortium assessments. This portfolio is composed of the following domains:
Productivity Suite
- Adobe Creative Cloud (Acrobat, Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, etc.)
- Box
- eSignature (Docusign)
- Google Workspace for Education (bMail, bCal, bDrive, bConnected Lists, Google Meet & Chat, etc.)
- Microsoft (Office, Windows OS, CalShare, Active Directory, etc.)
- Survey (Qualtrics)
- Video conferencing (Zoom)
Consortium Services
- MATLAB
- Mathematica
- SPSS
Other Services
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Mobile apps (Berkeley Mobile, Cal Events Guide)
Scope
- Identify community P&C needs.
- Manage the portfolio of the consortial model and the productivity suite.
- Evaluate current technology initiatives in the domain.
- Meet bi-monthly (or monthly as required).
Membership
Chair
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Marissa Gardner Saraf, Senior Assistant Dean of Administration and Finance, College of Chemistry
Members
- Jennifer Sierras, Executive Director and Chief Technology Officer, University Development and Alumni Relations
- Ken Geis, Director, Information Services, Research Administration and Compliance
- TBD, Communications & Public Affairs
- TBD, Research, Teaching & Learning
Ex-Officio Members (Non-Voting)
- Faye Snowden, Executive Director for Technology Programs and Governance, Berkeley IT
- Luis O Hernández Muñiz, Director of Productivity and Collaboration Services, Berkeley IT
- Robin Pappas, IT Governance Program Manager, Berkeley IT
