Mission Statement
The following policy is currently under review:
The mission of the University of San Diego’s Media Center-Instructional Technology Services is to provide dependable, professional services ranging from classroom media support and creative production services to advanced digital media communication applications. Our resources and services will assist faculty in their teaching mission to meet the challenges facing education in this knowledge based age. We will apply professional expertise and appropriate technology to meet the goals and objectives of the USD academic community and to encourage the use of our services.
The Media Center/ITS will also help determine client needs and plans, develop and provide educational media technology to support campus classroom instruction. We seek to plan, coordinate, standardize, design, implement and evaluate systems, products and services with an innovative and creative approach to enhance the classroom educational process and mission of the University of San Diego.
Goals
- To promote the Media Center/ITS’s quality customer service to faculty, staff and administrators, targeting specific users for particular services such as classroom support, creative media production service and system design.
- To identify user needs and plans, and to provide, coordinate, standardize, and maintain media technology equipment and systems in campus facilities such as general purpose classrooms and laboratories.
- To provide training of Media Center/ITS staff, enabling them to maintain the highest level of proficiency and professionalism and provide training for campus users, enabling them to effectively use technology.
- To be innovative and creative in providing services and in cooperating with other campus entities to maximize the efficiency and effectiveness of media, video and digital media resources to benefit faculty and students.
- To provide leadership in planning for campus applications of emerging and future media, video and digital media technologies that facilitate the development and implementation of specific plans to expand network system infrastructure as appropriate.
