CU Cross Campus Collaboration (C3) Forum

All in higher education are being asked to do more and more. With limited resources, it is imperative for all central IT organizations across the CU system to work together as we are stronger together than individually. This forum is a place for leaders from the central IT organizations on each of CU’s campuses to build relationships, share experiences and challenges, collaborate on solving problems, create efficiencies, pressure-test feasibility of ideas and execute on identified projects.

What is the scope of the C3 forum?

The C3 includes seven broad service areas in its scope including: 

• Access & Authorization Controls 
• Administrative and Business Services 
• Communication and Collaboration 
• Desktop and Mobile Computing  
• IT Infrastructure 
• IT Professional Services 
• Teaching and Learning 

The full details of the specific services within each of these areas can be found in the C3 Forum Scope document.

Who would we like to attend?

IT Directors from all CU campuses including CU Advancement, CU Boulder, CU Denver, UCCS and UIS as well as representatives from PSC are requested. Open to other invitees when specific topics of discussion warrant.

C3 Forum Format

Monthly meetings of 50 minutes in duration will be held via video conference with a focus on either IT Enterprise Applications or IT Infrastructure. Why 50 minutes? To allow transit time for attendees to their next meeting. The exception will be the two meetings held in April and October where 120 minutes will be allocated.

C3 Organization Structure

C3 Forum Planning Committee

A planning committee is composed of, at minimum, two people from two separate campuses who each serve a one-year term. The planning committee will be selected each year at the October onsite meeting or earlier if an opening exists. Members of the planning committee are responsible for ensuring the forum is run each month, with agendas and action items sent and tracked. The planning committee will keep planning notes on the Teams site.
Planning Committee Members (October 2021 - October 2022):

• Greg Williams (UCCS)
• Orrie Gartner (CU Boulder)
• Sheard Goodwin (CU Denver)
• Tony Brooks (UIS)

Subgroups

When needed, the C3 identifies specialized topics of interest and establishes channels of communication for those wanting to contribute to the topic.  The topic discussions may surround potential projects, areas of common interest, CIO directives, and both directed and undirected work.  The C3 recognizes three distinctly different types of subgroups.

Projects and Work Visibility

The C3 Forum advocates and acts as a conduit for the alignment and implementation of CIO strategy across the campuses. If and when project work identified by the C3 Forum requires higher level (CIO) approval to ensure continued alignment with CIO strategy, it is the responsibility of the C3 Forum members to discuss at their specific campus IT leadership meetings. See the process for C3 project initiation.

How identified project work from the C3 Forum is made visible within each campus’ IT project portfolio is through a decentralization process meaning it is up to each representing C3 Forum member to determine based on their individual IT organization’s published process and procedures.

 See the current C3 project portfolio.

Participants