Students have a right to an accessible education, and our mandate as a public institution is to serve and educate all of our students equitably. It is imperative to find solutions to increase access to all students. The workgroup has considered current and defining teaching modalities, mapping campus initiatives and aims to identify the benefits and challenges of options that improve accessibility and instruction for all students.
Bruins are driven by the immense impact we have on the communities we serve. The question at the heart of UCLA’s 2023-28 strategic plan is how we deepen our impact at a moment of transformation within our broader society, within Los Angeles and within our university. In short: how can we create the future?
This report is the product of extensive campuswide consultation, and describes a bold, transformational and inclusive strategy for our campus. The DataX Initiative is poised to build a vibrant, interdisciplinary campus community at the intersection of data science and society. This work includes identifying collaborators and champions across campus, developing a communications apparatus to enable a robust online home for DataX, coordinating a rich salon series, and curating mechanisms to support data and data-adjacent efforts across UCLA.
Academic Planning and Budget (APB) has designed a new budget model for UCLA at the request of the Chancellor, Executive Vice Chancellor/Provost, and Vice Chancellor/Chief Financial Officer. This represents one of UCLA’s most substantial budget model innovations since its founding in 1919. Four years of extensive research on best practices, coupled with internal/external consultations, have yielded the Bruin Budget Model, a hybrid resource allocation framework customized for UCLA. The BBM was originally slated to take effect on July 1, 2022.
With the expectation that many campus activities and programs will resume in Fall 2021, the experience gained during the pandemic has allowed us to formulate principles and recommendations about reinventing the UCLA workplace of the future.
ATLAS is examining ways in which we can better coordinate and manage the administration, organization, and resources for campus units that provide critical support and services to teaching, learning, training, pedagogy, learning management systems, classroom support, assessment, and evaluation, as well as in some instances engaging in research related to these areas.
The Virtual Reality Institute Task Force was charged with helping to explore the idea of a multidisciplinary Virtual Reality Institute at UCLA.
The Data Governance Task Force provided recommendations for how institutional governance of data about UCLA faculty, students, and staff should be structured and used.
When the Technology Infrastructure Fee (TIF) was implemented, the EVCP agreed to review it after three years. The TIF Review Committee report presents results of that review. Following comments on the report, the EVCP accepted the major recommendations, with some modifications as described in a February 2011 memorandum, which is available at bit.ly/3nocK3z.
The IT Planning Task Force presents a new strategic vision for IT planning and infrastructure at UCLA.