To: The Full Council of Deans
The IT Advisory Board
The Educational Technologies Board
The Senate IT Committee
Assistant and Associate Deans
Campus IT Support Staff

Re: Campus-Wide IT Strategic Planning Coordinator

Dear Colleagues:

Please share this information with unit heads, faculty, and staff involved
in the strategic planning process, especially in areas where IT impact or
implications may be significant.

I am delighted to announce that Ken Spelke, Associate Dean for Information
Technology and Research in the Graduate School of Library and Information
Science, has accepted my offer to serve as Coordinator for Campus-wide IT
Strategic Planning, effective immediately. Ken will be spending 20% time
as a member of the CIO staff devoted to campus-level IT strategic planning,
working with the colleges and units; he will continue his duties as
Associate Dean in GSLIS at 80% time.

Ken’s 20+ years’ experience in IT strategic planning includes national
participation in Educause, membership on the Board of Directors of the
American Distance Education Consortium, and various leadership roles in the
Association for Communication Excellence. Ken also serves on the Advanced
Engineering Taskforce of the Illinois Century Network. The Office of
Campus IT Strategic Planning is located in DCL, room 2504. Ken may be
reached at spelke@uiuc.edu or 244-1179.

In providing leadership for campus IT strategic planning, Ken will work
closely with a Steering Team, comprising the Chair of the IT Advisory
Board, the UIUC Chief Information Officer, and the Dean of LAS
(representing the Council of Deans). They will interact regularly with IT
Advisory Board members from across campus; representatives from central
campus organizations; University and campus IT service providers; CITES
staff members; and faculty, staff, and students who will help vet the draft
campus IT strategic plan.

For some “first draft” information about the campus IT strategic planning
process, see http://www.cio.uiuc.edu/plan/.
Regards,

Pete Siegel
CIO

Note from Dave: Pete Siegel is leaving this summer for a CIO job at UC-Davis. I wonder if this is grooming from some sort of intermediate plan for Spelke.  I wonder what the impacts for IT in GSLIS will be in this arrangement.