


The weekly meetings of IT partners continue and have been paramount to the One IT community’s ability to be proactive and responsive to quickly meet the needs of the campus. In a matter of days, several teams had scaled up services like Zoom to meet the demand for video conferencing, figured out ways to get computers and equipment to those in need, and found new approaches to their work to best serve the needs of the greater - now predominantly remote - campus. Early in March, as news of the pandemic began to ramp up, UC Berkeley’s Deputy CIO Jenn Stringer started to gather key IT partners twice weekly to discuss, plan, and take actions to help prepare campus for moving classes fully online and having staff work from home. Like many colleges and universities across the country, the demand for technical teams to expand existing services or build new services in support of the campus community during COVID-19 has been at a steady hum.
