The Michigan Technology Community is not a department or overarching unit, but a community of more than 2,600 technology professionals that work on the University of Michigan's Ann Arbor, Dearborn, and Flint campuses and within Michigan Medicine, including the various schools and colleges, libraries, research institutes, clinical areas, and administrative units. Hundreds more are in leadership, IT-related roles, or have a strong interest in tech at U-M. Available here is a list of the university's technology providers.
MTC is led by the its Steering Committee and sponsored by the Office of the VPIT-CIO to build community, foster skills and professional development, and promote innovation across the institution's tech and IT professionals.
Mission
The MTC mission is to enhance the impact of technology at the U-M through collaboration, promotion, and support of technology professionals and advocates across the university.
Community Objectives
- Collaboration: Help build and nurture relationships that support continuous learning and accelerate value creation for our U-M community.
- Spotlight: Share and promote the impact provided by the U-M technology community.
- Workforce: Provide opportunities for people across U-M to develop and enhance technology capabilities and skills. Contribute to recruiting and retaining a diverse and inclusive community of technology professionals.
- Outreach Committee: Help spread awareness of technology related events and information by a variety of platforms.
Branding & Templates
The MTC brand falls under the umbrella of the overarching U-M guidelines. Use of the wordmark is overseen by the Steering Committee and Outreach Committee as appropriate for promoting MTC-sponsored activities.
Background
In 2012, a team of university leaders engaged with the IT community for the purpose of defining a strategic vision with an emphasis on mission-aligned services. This led the publication of a planning report incorporating more than 380 recommendations from the IT community, and Michigan IT's inclusion in the university’s IT Strategic Plan.
A program of initiatives followed, including an intensive on-campus leadership development program for over 100 top IT leaders and managers, an annual university-wide IT Symposium including over one hundred posters and dozens of presentations showcasing the best of Michigan IT, dozens of peer-led communities of practice organized around very specific and strategically aligned IT topics, an annual hackathon to enable rapid cross-campus creativity on pressing needs, and more.
These initiatives created the foundation of today's vibrant Michigan Technology Community, which was renamed from Michigan IT in December 2024.