Mission & Values
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We have chosen to use the term stakeholder, being a person or organization that has a direct interest in Harding University. This would include:
• Students
• Faculty
• Staff and other employees, especially student workers
• Alumni
• Donors
• Vendors and service providers, and
• Media
Our vision is underpinned by the conviction that information systems and technology should be in place in a university to serve the stakeholders. Specifically, what we do in IS&T should be always viewed as:
1. Enabling our stakeholders to provide their services in more effective and efficient ways.
2. Empowering our stakeholders to be able to use information technology and systems with the minimum of disruption to their prime focus and purpose.
This in turn will foster confidence in our stakeholders and their use of information systems and technology, and confidence in the Information Systems & Technology department to develop and provided what is needed.
This enabling and empowering of stakeholders will always been done within the operating boundaries and mission of Harding University.
Importantly though, we also have to ensure that we are good stewards of the resources that we have, in a sense we also have to be looking at our own requirements as well as those of our stakeholders. Of course, if we take care of our own resources, this is also benefiting the stakeholders. However, we must ensure that we do not just look at those on the ‘outside’, but also manage what we have well. This would include things such as information security and integrity, data center infrastructure, maintenance of library holdings and so forth.