IT Strategic Plan

The IT Strategic Plan at URI outlines our commitment to enhancing technology services in alignment with the FOCUS URI plan. This roadmap guides our efforts in digital transformation, cybersecurity, and collaborative innovation to support the university’s strategic priorities.

Key Focus Areas:

Digital Transformation: Modernizing IT infrastructure to improve user experiences.
Cybersecurity: Strengthening defenses to protect university data.
Innovation and Collaboration: Driving initiatives that foster technological advancement across campus.

Our Commitment: By aligning IT strategies with the university’s goals, we aim to empower learning, research, and administration through effective technology solutions.

Priority: Enhance core infrastructure

URI IT needs to provide our constituents with secure, reliable, efficient, and modern infrastructure services. These underpin almost every aspect of FOCUS URI.

Priority: Build modern, uniform IT

Core IT services, such as the LMS, Finance, HR, and Student record systems should be common for all of URI, be built to scale, contain accurate information and be easy to use.

Priority: Enhance Service Delivery

IT issues need to be resolved, quickly, accurately, and permanently. Our community needs to focus on their core mission while we work in the background to help them do so efficiently and effectively.

Priority: Improve outreach

Listening to our user community, sharing what we know, and helping both our current IT workforce and building the next generation of IT professionals.

Priority: Innovate to support URI

Virtual reality, augmented reality, visualization, AI, and Quantum all have the potential to radically reshape and enhance all aspects of URI. From computational research to new digitally enhanced learning modalities, digital will be reshaping the academic core mission. New, AI-based tools hold the potential to radically reshape all client interactions and automate routine tasks, while digitally enhanced communities of shared interest can transform the student experience.