Information Technology

Responsibilities Of Office

The Office of Information Technology is responsible for providing leadership in the planning and implementation of information technologies across the University of Missouri System. The Division of IT also provides a set of information technology services to higher education, K–12 institutions, libraries and state government through MOREnet operations. The vice president of information technology also serves as the MU chief information officer.

Information technology responsibilities

• Voice, video and data networks
• Offices, laboratories, classrooms, residence halls, etc.
• Desktop technology – hardware, software and training
• Students, faculty and staff
• Application, database, and network servers and storage
• Production operations, and business continuity and disaster recovery processes
• Large software applications
• Email, library, electronic journals and databases, and enterprisewide administrative systems (student, finance and accounting, human resources, alumni development)
• Technology-dependent research and instructional applications
• Coordination of shared services initiatives

Information technology departments

• Telecommunications and security
• IT finance and administration
• Customer service and support
• Enterprise application services
• Systems and operations
• Research computing and networking
• Special projects, project management, marketing and communications
• MOREnet