Campus Engagement

Revised June 29, 2016

Campus Champion InstitutionsStandard – 119EPSCoR States – 73Minority Serving Institutions – 15EPSCoR States and Minority Serving Institutions – 10Total Campus Champion Institutions – 217

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Who are the champions?

• HPC Directors• System Administrators• User Support specialists• Faculty evangelists• Central IT staff• Non-academic organization staff, e.g. USGS, USDA-

ARS, KINBER, Idaho National Lab• Plus friends of the family

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Champions are also:

• CASC members• XSEDE Level 3 Service providers • ACI-REFs• BD Hub participants• OSG facilitators• Linux Clusters Institute learners and instructors• Software/Data Carpentry instructors & hosts• State/regional collaborators (e.g. OneOklahoma

Cyberinfrastructure Initiative)

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What do champions do?

• Facilitate computing- and data-intensive research and education;

• Help their local researchers and educators to find and use the advanced digital services that best meet their needs;

• Share CI challenges and solutions.(at all levels: workgroup, institutional, regional, national, and international)

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Campus Engagement• New umbrella: Champion Program plus new

stuff• Co-managers: Dana Brunson & Henry Neeman• Deputy Manager & Champion coordinator:

Kay Hunt• Regional coordinator (and more): Jeff Pummill• Supporters from ECSS:

– Phil Blood– Jay Alameda

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Campus Engagement Goals• Increase scalable, sustainable institutional

uptake of advanced digital services from providers at all levels;

• Foster a broader, deeper, more agile, more sustainable and more diverse nationwide cyberinfrastructure ecosystem;

• Cultivate inter-institutional interchange of resources, expertise and support;

• Sustain this community beyond XSEDE.

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New task forces

• Sustainability– Make the Champions more robust, resilient

and comprehensive– Already underway– Chair: Dana Brunson

• Welcome Wagon – Mentor new champions – Chair: Kay Hunt

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Other new activities

• Promote intrastate CI collaboration• Deepen and extend campus engagement

(CIOs, VPRs, Diversity Officers, etc.)• Develop and extend collaboration activities

(within and beyond XSEDE)• Update the website & wiki!

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Campus Engagement Mission Statement

The Campus Engagement program promotes and facilitates the effective participation of a diverse national community of campuses in the application of advanced digital resources and services to accelerate scientific discovery and scholarly achievement.

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Metrics

• Number of Institutions with a Champion• Number of unique contributors to the

Champion email list (campuschampions@xsede.org)

• Number of activities that (i) expand the emerging CI workforce and/or (ii) improve the extant CI workforce, participated in by members of the Campus Engagement team.