This document outlines the Campus Engagement program within XSEDE. It provides statistics on the number of Campus Champion Institutions, including those from EPSCoR states and Minority Serving Institutions. Champions include various roles that help researchers access advanced computing resources. The document discusses new task forces, activities, and goals of the program to increase access to resources and foster collaboration among institutions nationally. The mission is to facilitate participation in advanced digital resources to support research and education.

1. Campus Engagement

2. Revised June 29, 2016
Campus Champion Institutions
Standard – 119
EPSCoR States – 73
Minority Serving Institutions – 15
EPSCoR States and Minority Serving Institutions – 10
Total Campus Champion Institutions – 217

3. 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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4. 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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5. 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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6. 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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7. 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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8. 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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9. 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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10. 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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11. 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.
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