Program Committees

Our IT Governance program currently comprises several committees, each with individual charges which are available on the pages linked in the right menu. The principles and responsibilities described here apply to all IT governance committees. 

Principles

Stewardship

  • We ensure that IT is efficiently and responsibly using resources in the best interest of campus,  University stakeholders, and members of the extended UC Berkeley community.

  • We promote IT strategies and systems that lead to proper stakeholder benefits and work to align stakeholder strategies with IT capabilities.

  • We recommend IT investments based on real business cases, with regular assessment of whether our expectations are being met and our assumptions still hold.

Accountability

  • We hold ourselves accountable to campus stakeholders for improving the quality and value of IT.

  • We hold IT accountable to governance for implementing our decisions in a timely manner. 

  • We ensure that IT systems support stakeholders in complying with legislation and regulations, and that IT itself also complies with legal requirements and internal rules.

  • We enforce rules and requirements impartially, and are responsible for guaranteeing an equitable campus where IT provides all stakeholders opportunities to maintain and improve their well-being.

Transparency

  • We provide information about IT decisions to all stakeholders, and clear information on the governance process for funding, decision-making, and strategic dialogue with appropriate stakeholders.

  • We create policies, practices, and decisions that respect individuals and acknowledge the needs of all stakeholders in the process.

Collaboration

  • We ensure that decisions are informed from multiple perspectives, and encourage all stakeholders to voice their own opinions directly and through legitimate organizations or representatives.

  • We seek reasonable consensus in decision-making, mediating different interests to reach broad agreement. While all stakeholders may not achieve everything they want individually, we make decisions that serve the best interests of the campus as a whole. 

Agility

  • We continually improve IT governance by adapting and adjusting to the rapidly changing, ambiguous, and dynamic environments of higher education and technology.

  • We plan for and evaluate that committees and processes serve all stakeholders.

Responsibilities

Recommend IT Resource Needs and Distribution

  • Identify, prioritize and recommend technology resources and policies to meet and support campus and University missions.

  • Recommend technology investment priorities and new candidates for funding annually.

  • Ensure stakeholder support for policy decisions and IT resource and project priorities.

Manage IT Service Strategy

  • Establish and maintain an overarching IT service strategy.

  • Ensure IT systems and services are sustainable, secure, supportable, effective, and affordable.

  • Elicit and assess stakeholder needs and technological opportunities.

  • Evaluate the direction and progress of technology initiatives.

  • Establish priorities for system implementations and service transitions.

  • Integrate risk management into IT decision making.

Facilitate IT Collaboration and Best Practices

  • Identify and evaluate best practices and innovations that can be leveraged campus-wide.

  • Review key technology developments for potential impacts to and adoption by the campus.

  • Improve communication within the IT community and between IT and stakeholders.

  • Participate in IT domain initiatives shared across the University.

  • Champion governance principles across campus.

ITSC Structure 2025-2026 graphic that links to accessible slide deck
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Questions?

Please direct questions about IT Governance to Robin Pappas, IT Governance Program Manager.