About the Office of Information Technology

UCLA’s Office of Information Technology (OIT) is an umbrella organization that spreads across the spectrum of IT activities, projects, and organizations. The OIT is responsible for university-wide technology planning and strategic and tactical deployment of the academic and administrative operations, services and resources in support of the university mission and its central and distributed technology requirements.

UCLA’s Office of Information Technology (OIT) is comprised of two departments - the office of the campus Chief Information Officer and Academic Technology Services (ATS).

The OIT manages institutional IT planning, policy setting, security practice and compliance, prioritization and decision-making processes, and with the Office of Finance of Budget is responsible for campus IT investment planning and decisions. The OIT provides program office and project oversight capacity and consultation services.

Academic Technology Services (ATS) is the operational arm of OIT providing academic IT services in high performance computing, visualization, web applications, statistics consulting, grid, collaboration and learning environment services, disabilities computing, software licensing and faculty personnel services

People

The Office of Information Technology is headed by AVC Jim Davis, who has broad responsibility for the university IT vision and strategic planning. The OIT has approximately 50 full-time staff, including a management team of eight directors and a team of 40 people who work on the critical campus technology projects.

The OIT also relies on a dozen part-time student positions for everything from statistical consulting, programming, AV assistance, desktop support and clerical/administrative support.

Approximately 10 graduate students are employed as part of ATS’s partnership with the Experiential Technology Center as part of the Institute for Digital Research and Education. These students are part of the organization’s “Research Scholar Program” that is working with Classics, Architecture, and other campus academic units to create virtual reality models and computing applications that can be used across disciplines.