History

In March 2002, Chancellor Marye Anne Fox created a University-wide Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery Planning Committee. The role of the Committee was to expand disaster recovery business continuity planning efforts beyond the current focus on administrative and academic information technology resources and services. With members from both academic and administrative units, the Committee represents a wide range of perspectives on the University’s obligations to maintain business continuity when a crisis threatens our students, faculty or staff or the mission-critical services the University provides.

To facilitate the coordination of all University business continuity and disaster recovery efforts and related issues, the Committee recommended that the University adopt a coordinated and integrated business continuity and disaster recovery planning and response process that :

1. Positions the University to quickly and effectively manage and resolve emergency situations that impact mission critical operations and services;
2. Is modular and flexible, enabling a dynamic situational response to crises;
3. Is achievable and sustainable;
4. Takes advantage of previous work and currently positioned resources and competencies;
5. Enables academic and administrative units to concentrate on what they know best and call on other resources for requirements outside their familiar business components.

To lead this effort, the Committee hired in March 2003 a Director of Business Continuity