IT at IU
Woven through every aspect of university life
At University Information Technology Services (UITS), our goal is to support the teaching, learning, research, and clinical missions of Indiana University. Plain and simple. We do this by providing the highest-quality IT services to every student, faculty, and staff member in an environment, whether in person or virtual, where technology is woven through every aspect of university life.
We successfully serve all seven campuses of the university, two academic centers, and nine medical education centers across the state thanks to a united model of operations implemented over 20 years ago. This 1IUIT philosophy allows us to deliver shared services, IT infrastructure, and software to the entire
IU community.
The visionary strategy of IU President Myles Brand, who recruited
Michael A. McRobbie as IU’s first vice president for IT, flourished under McRobbie and accelerated under former VP for IT Brad Wheeler. Today, IU runs one of the most respected IT organizations in higher education.
Much of our success can be attributed to these guiding principles:
- Edge: These are the IT staffers in our schools and departments who are implementing innovative tools and processes.
- Leverage: We at UITS consider their new ideas and scale them to university-wide services.
- Trust: Through a relationship of mutual trust between UITS and our edge partners, we constantly improve IU’s IT landscape.
Our successes are IU’s successes. We keep the university humming in the middle of a global pandemic with our remote teaching and learning resources. We save IU money by negotiating contracts to provide no-fee software and discounted eTexts to students. We operate one of the most robust—and most secure—campus network infrastructures while supporting scores of tech-enabled classrooms and running world-class networks for external clients across the globe. We offer faculty and students easy access to high-performance computing tools while also leading our own funded research to develop new and better software and technology.
More than just a service organization, we bring in millions of dollars in federal research grants and contracts to further support IU’s mission.
And the list goes on. Clearly, as IU embarks on its third century, UITS will continue to deliver world-class IT services while leading the future of IT.
Rob Lowden
Vice President for IT and CIO, Indiana University