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Christine Christy: Alright, so good afternoon and welcome everybody. I'm your host. My name is Christie, and this is the office of advanced cyber infrastructure, also known as we. We're happy to be at back with you for the march. Two thousand and twenty-three addition of the oac Technical Talks Webinar series. Um, just a couple of administration items before we get started today. Um, please to ensure that your microphones are on mute, and we will also have a question and answer session towards the end of Today's Webinar
Christine Christy: Um. So if you have any questions during this presentation, i'd like to direct you to the Q. And a function at the bottom of the zoom toolbar. You can go ahead and put your questions in there, and then we will save time at the end to answer those questions.
Christine Christy: So i'd like to start our Webinar with a few remarks by the Oac Deputy Office director, Amy Walton.
Amy Walton: Great. Thank you very much, Christine, and I want to welcome all of you to the Oac technical Talk series. This is organized and hosted by my colleague, Christine Christie, and provide some overview of some of our latest and most exciting research. Today's guest is on a huntinger. She is principal investigator on an office of advanced cyber infrastructure award whose full title is very descriptive. It is unknownst century research
Amy Walton: cyber infrastructure for minority-serving institutions
Amy Walton: through the minority-serving cyber infrastructure consortium or mscc a phased approach to engaging the missing millions so a lot of very important topics there, but on a huntinger has also been the principal investigator On earlier opposite of Am's Cyber infrastructure, awards exploring clouds for the acceleration of science so very important topics for us.
Amy Walton: A few words about our speaker today on a Hunsinger is Vice president of community engagement, And, Internet, too. She has executive management responsibilities for Internet two's membership and engagement programs that support Internet to his higher education affiliates and industry members.
Amy Walton: We have been fortunate to have her be an active contributor to the Internet to community for over twenty-five years at the beginning of her career at Internet two. Anna was a program manager of Internet, two's, international program and relationships, and she would go on to serve as director of regional and state network relationships and to manage fiber code and Internet two-funded project that provides the means to acquire hold, and assigned fiber optic assets in support of the Internet to community
Amy Walton: for our interests a key. Part of that community engagement is
Amy Walton: ah one which Anna now leads, which is within Ns. The Internet two and the broader research and engineering community to increase diversity and inclusivity, and more meaningful participation by women in it. And so, without further delay, it is my privilege to introduce today's guest to speak about Mscc, a community-based approach to bridge the digital divide on a hunting.
Ana Hunsinger: Thank you very much. Thank you amy for
Ana Hunsinger: um combining me, and thank you for everybody for participating today. I think you did a a great job introducing me, so I don't need to say much about me. I'll just add that I was born and raised in Mexico City, and I came to the United States. But it seems a really long time ago actually spend more of my life here in the United States. I came here to study for my university studies, and here we are almost thirty five years later.
Ana Hunsinger: So again thank you for inviting me today, I should start while I flip some slides by telling you that I was hoping to have a cooper center participate with me today. Dr. Debra Dent, who is the chief Information officer at Jackson State University, and also a cupi in the two awards that I will reference today.
Ana Hunsinger: She could make it. She was called on a less
Ana Hunsinger: minute, but really important meaning that her leadership Ah, you know to have with legislatures. Ah! In Mississippi! So ah! She says her regrets, and i'll do my best to channel Dr. Dent. Ah, because certainly I was kind of hoping that she would also express Ah, as a county member of the Msc.
Ana Hunsinger: What is going on. So with that said, Let me just get
Ana Hunsinger: a few things set up here
Ana Hunsinger: and um,
Ana Hunsinger: Thank you. Okay. So let's get started again. Delighted that I get to be here with you, and I want to just send some context by
Ana Hunsinger: talking about a couple of really important efforts that stem from the restriction education, community. I call these call to actions, and they're They're interrelated, and these are close to action that came from the
Ana Hunsinger: community to point to the need to have those that have not been represented, or that have been excluded from the many of the conversations to take center stage and start and steer based on their needs.
Ana Hunsinger: The Urls are there for you to look at the minds we need has a focus on the importance of ensuring that the
Ana Hunsinger: um infrastructure and the broadband. But in the whole context of sovereign infrastructure that that gets to the minds that we need, and you know, phone and all that to the missing billions report, which is something that I certainly would encourage all of you to read if you haven't. It was an effort also funded by and Nsf. And the office of a damn cyber infrastructure
Ana Hunsinger: is uh what i'm just gonna leave you with. Is that
Ana Hunsinger: The overarching theme of that report is that there's much work to be done, and that's needed to remove the barriers to cyber infrastructure access in historically under represented communities.
Ana Hunsinger: So with this context, Ios, you should share a little bit As to why am I here presenting about what i'm about to present?
Ana Hunsinger: Um, Amy related to you my my background and what I do at Internet, too. I'm not here to talk about Internet. To today. You can look us up just no Internet to us a national organization that's here to serve the needs of their research and education community Through the many of the things that we do,
Ana Hunsinger: I should mention that for me in particular, but also the leadership of the Internet too. We've been on a journey here for a period of time,
Ana Hunsinger: and I think it was in late spring of two thousand and twenty, I should say a group of Chief Information Officers from historically black colleges and universities. Hbc. Use.
Ana Hunsinger: Approach me an Internet to about the revision about an emerging collaboration of Hbc. Use tribal colleges and universities. Hispanic servant institutions and other minority servants
Ana Hunsinger: institutions these leaders have been meeting ah way before they approach it or not, too. They've been meeting since early two thousand and eighteen, and a meeting between trusted peers to discuss issues and challenges confronted by their campuses.
Ana Hunsinger: That is where the minority servants have their infrastructure consortium, and Mcc. Emerge from those conversations and today Um. Mcc. Ambitions A transformational partnership to promote advanced Cyber Infrastructure capabilities.
Ana Hunsinger: Um on hbcu tcu hsi, and Msi Campuses.
Ana Hunsinger: This is their shared vision one that's driven by inclusion
Ana Hunsinger: value, and making an impact to shared ownership and commitment from these institutions. I'm going to give you a little bit to read this,
Ana Hunsinger: and then let me say a little bit more about this effort. So, um!
Ana Hunsinger: As I mentioned, the Mcc. Emerged from these discussions and those sharing the challenges that they were confronting.
Ana Hunsinger: And um. So this guiding principles um are really important, but also um, you know, read the purpose and the and the stakeholders here. Um Mcc's vision for the future is enabling
Ana Hunsinger: your capabilities, tools, assessments, and resources for the institutions that come together through the Mcc.
Ana Hunsinger: Okay,
Ana Hunsinger: just a little bit. I know this one is kind of hard to hear a read. I just want to
Ana Hunsinger: emphasize that. Ah, working in close collaboration with the Msc. Is also where you know, Internet was also expressing our desire to ensure the equal participation of historically underserved institutions within the United States
Ana Hunsinger: and the global research and education communities.
Ana Hunsinger: The participation of Hbc. News travel, colleges, and universities, and other Msis. In this share cyber infrastructure
Ana Hunsinger: is critical to our nation's success in enable and access to the brightest minds wherever they may be located. So it is with this that Internet to also ah express intentions to to guide this relationship on our work with the Msc:
Ana Hunsinger: Okay, Um. We started working and listening to one another and doing a number of things. Uh um.
Ana Hunsinger: At the end of two thousand and twenty we work together to administer a stakeholder survey that got some really important responses from Tcu's, Hbc. Use, and from the broader community of minority servant institutions
Ana Hunsinger: we wanted at that point in time to also understand the community needs and priorities, so that in turn we could plan activities in support of those needs and priorities,
Ana Hunsinger: so that first survey that we were involved with led the Mspc. With support from Internet, to to then propose a bold approach to the National Science foundation in the spring of two thousand and twenty-one.
Ana Hunsinger: Okay. So Ah awarded in September two thousand and twenty one ah Msc. In partnership with Internet. Two. We see funds towards center of Excellence demonstration Pilot,
Ana Hunsinger: which over the course of the two-year Grant period Aims to increase access to cyber infrastructure resources to empowered Researchers at Mcc Campuses in their use of cider infrastructure.
Ana Hunsinger: This slide kind of gives you a sense of the key pieces around the pilot's center of excellence. Some key components include awareness, outreach, community building and communication through the Mcc. As a more robust effort.
Ana Hunsinger: Okay. Ah building Ah, from here. Um! We've continued to ah check the polls with the community. We did another survey Ah! In winter twenty twenty-two, and this um again ah with an eye towards taking a pulse as to where we should concentrate
Ana Hunsinger: our efforts, then funded through the pilot's center of excellence. So to just tell you a little bit about what we learned, this slide.
Ana Hunsinger: It gives you a sense of how respondents prioritize a number of themes and areas that at that point in time they deem really important, really urgent, really critical to advancing their work from Ci.
Ana Hunsinger: So from this this really helped shape up,
Ana Hunsinger: but have been quite a number of activities that we have said in motion that include from the participation of national conferences to the organization of workshops and events at the campus level, but really important,
Ana Hunsinger: Having these workshops take place at the campuses of Hbc. News, Tc. Use and other institutions, and, as you can see, I mean we. It just gives you a quick glimpse that some of the activities really doesn't, cover everything. But what I feel really important to note here is
Ana Hunsinger: going to the campuses has been really really important and engaging with the campus stakeholders. Specifically, when we bring this activities to ah, to them or in partnership, we ah! We create this activities with Ah! The campus needs in mind
Ana Hunsinger: had a lot of activity in two thousand and twenty-two already in two thousand and twenty We have a lot more activity plan. Sorry about that of all times. My phone rings. That's interesting.
Ana Hunsinger: Okay. So let's see. So a few things that i'll highlight are the upcoming workshops that are taking place at the spring
Ana Hunsinger: at two Hpc. Us. We're in the process of planning an annual meeting. I'll tell you a little bit more about that, and just a number of things that are really important to start coalescing the community, but also the awareness of the dialogue around
Ana Hunsinger: what a ci, but also the what does c. I mean may imply in the context of these institutions, and i'll say a little bit more about that momentarily,
Ana Hunsinger: all right. Another thing that's since we've been, you know, doing all of these things
Ana Hunsinger: that the community continues to grow, and, as you can see, this may even be slightly out of date. But there's engagement and participation of many of these institutions, but also other entities or other
Ana Hunsinger: organizations that also may play A role, may want to play a role in the
Ana Hunsinger: and and and whose missions may also align, or a desire to align in supporting the work at hand, to advance the Mcc. So this just kind of gives you a quick snapshot of the community, and where where it is today. Um, this
Ana Hunsinger: past year, and going into this year. Ah, ah! The governance and kind of the structure also this community that's driving and that's emerging. Ah, governance has been a a major focal point also for the ah institutions that are leading this effort. I'll just say there's a little bit here about. Ah, the work to revise a charter with a few things that were incorporated into this latest renew.
Ana Hunsinger: And the other thing that I think it's really important that I bring up is that it's important that the Mcc.
Ana Hunsinger: I don't guide the Ms. Andc. And or does Internet to the the Msc. Is guided by the leadership and the representation of Hbc. Use and Tc. News coming together to now set up direction and and leadership for the Msc.
Ana Hunsinger: So the the names that you see here I wish I could have their pictures so you could remember them, but maybe we can include that in the next version. But it's really important that you know you. I leave you that
Ana Hunsinger: the the the beaten, the driver Seed has to be from the perspective also of these institutions as well.
Ana Hunsinger: So with that said also I mentioned there's been a work in governance, the Consortium Leadership Board,
Ana Hunsinger: as we've been working really hard to elect officers, but to also send in motion a number of important tasks and strategic things are going to be important for the consortium to advance. So this slide just gives you a sense of some of the committees that are started to be fairly active, and that will continue to drive activities for the consortium.
Ana Hunsinger: I forgot it. Here are some of the faces, but please take a look at them, because these are faces and names that all of us need to remember as well.
Ana Hunsinger: Okay. Now, i'm going to seg a little bit here. I know that i'm probably talking to a crowd that
Ana Hunsinger: going to assume is fairly familiar with what we refer to as cyber infrastructure,
Ana Hunsinger: and we all know that Saturn infrastructure as much as one component. It's multiple components that come out of play, and the one that I want to emphasize. And again, not ah, that it's more important. But it's critically important.
Ana Hunsinger: I'd like to say, probably work. Some discussion is the component about people people and the people that then
Ana Hunsinger: upheld infrastructure that upheld all of these things that come together through this ah big circle here and um! I think it's important to that. I I refer back again to the overarching theme of the Miss. And millions report
Ana Hunsinger: again that there's a lot of work that needs to be done to remove the barriers to access to all of these components in historically under represented communities.
Ana Hunsinger: Ah, let me say a few things.
Ana Hunsinger: Funding clearly is super important, and you know funding is going to be needed for doing the things that may be needed at a campus level for additional campus infrastructure or upgrades, but or things that are needed beyond the network per se, but other components.
Ana Hunsinger: But it's also equally important that resources are there to ensure that that infrastructure is upheld.
Ana Hunsinger: Further vibrant communities that include a working group of peers. A sense of belonging and engagement and growth. And sustainability are essential to also ensuring the long-term dissipation
Ana Hunsinger: and engagement from these institutions.
Ana Hunsinger: One last piece here.
Ana Hunsinger: It is important that you know institutional contexts are really important here, and we shouldn't assume that we can just compare, or that there you know that an Hbc. You
Ana Hunsinger: is the same as another minority-serving institution. There's a distinctiveness and uniqueness in the institutional context for each of these institutions and as such
Ana Hunsinger: it's really important that
Ana Hunsinger: we considered that
Ana Hunsinger: because of these contexts, and because they're they vary enough that we may be required to consider individual considerations for the type of Ci or the ci strategic action that may be needed across and within each category
Ana Hunsinger: there is not a one size fits all, either.
Ana Hunsinger: Okay, i'm going to give you a few minutes to read what's in this slide. Um, I just want to call attention to um, you know, in our work, through the consultations through the surveys, but also in the more directed efforts now to work with these institutions.
Ana Hunsinger: These are some of the shared challenges that you know.
Ana Hunsinger: Continue to emerge
Ana Hunsinger: through our work with the with the Mcc. And But let's go a little bit further on this, and you know again, this just highlights a few of the issues
Ana Hunsinger: that we're working, or that we hope to address. Uh, let me start with just a few uh here. Um!
Ana Hunsinger: As a result of limited resources, expertise, and capabilities. What we're finding is that many of these campuses have had many challenges in identifying and develop even some of the required documents that may be needed, or now require in many
Ana Hunsinger: funding agencies, programs, and existing solicitations and things like a Ci plan or a data management plan. So as such, you know, if these things are require, and you know, be that there's not necessarily
Ana Hunsinger: lack of desire to have these things together, or that they could come together. But what happens is that? Ah, maybe ah! Just a researcher or a proposer may not even know who they could go and talk to to the bell of battle to have that in place. So what happens here is that you know we're seeing
Ana Hunsinger: there's almost like an immediate barrier to entry into the national, c. I. Ecosystem, and therefore to the subsequent lack of funding that could be there.
Ana Hunsinger: The types of scalability, touch, and scalability of the research that we supporter to further impede. You know that that entry to the national ci ecosystem as well
Ana Hunsinger: want to emphasize the second bullet here. It's really important that you know that
Ana Hunsinger: expertise at the campus level? How do we get? You know the humans that are going to be there with time and with
Ana Hunsinger: with the ability to deploy and use it, whatever Ci. Tools and implementations may be recommended, or that maybe campuses are aware of what happens. Also, when there are, you know all the
Ana Hunsinger: competing priorities in supporting the campus infrastructure and limited resources, and just keeping the lights on. And therefore ah! You know what whatever we may suggest and do that or recommend may imply that you know campuses may still need more staffing that's going to be needed to
Ana Hunsinger: um to implement whatever we may suggest or not that is needed on Ci, or even that the campus has identified. So this press, in reality, is going to continue to limit the time and commitment of Hcc. New and Tcu stabbing resources
Ana Hunsinger: that could again be otherwise dedicated to addressing. What say on the pilot or other efforts we may recommend to do. We make assumptions that the work that our campus has already dug to identify
Ana Hunsinger: Ah, research and education drivers that could then in turn require the use of computational and other ci resources, we assume that that has been done, and as itself them the case. The campus may need to
Ana Hunsinger: do a lot more. Um, or again,
Ana Hunsinger: have the ability to also understand how to use the food research work close. How do you? Ah, do the stakeholder and the related engagement that's needed to kind of get a better sense to then Ah identify these drivers, or maybe the Drivers haven't been identified. But then, how do you connect these to them, the ci components that realize what's.
Ana Hunsinger: And then in that research or education driver as well.
Ana Hunsinger: So um
Ana Hunsinger: what this said, and you know, experiencing, and I'm. Working with with the Mcc. Schools, I should that that in Leslie, one year, from being awarded the
Ana Hunsinger: pilot center of excellence, Mcc. With expanded support. Also from the Internet to we did another bold proposal to the National Science Foundation.
Ana Hunsinger: Ah, this was recently funded last year, and you can see a little bit more. Amy mentioned the ambitious title that we have in this work.
Ana Hunsinger: A few things here are
Ana Hunsinger: through this a most recent award
Ana Hunsinger: Nsf. Is committed to seeing, if we can significantly increase and accelerate the Cyber infrastructure, enabled research and education capacity at Mcc campuses by testing and learning
Ana Hunsinger: from new approaches, towards what we hope could be a model, maybe a set of models. Maybe these could be repeatable
Ana Hunsinger: and and and again model surrounds ci implementations on Msi campuses.
Ana Hunsinger: This expanded and longer-term funding effort will enable us to take a more directed approach in working with
Ana Hunsinger: several Hbc use, and Tc. Use and um have through the Msc. And these campuses that we work with. The ability to then define campus-specific assessments that could then drive the it. And ci strategic plans that
Ana Hunsinger: and we're doing so with the intentionality, so that each of the campuses we've worked with has dedicated access to expertise and resources, resulting in a plan that supports the campus needs, and that means that camp is where that campus is.
Ana Hunsinger: The external resources will come through what we are referring. Teams of expert Ci professionals. We call them tiger teams, and and then, let me tell you a little bit more.
Ana Hunsinger: This a big component of this is what we referred as the approval concept rep program. I'll use the word pocg.
Ana Hunsinger: And ah, yeah, this is a pilot program. Again that would allow us to test. If there's a model or several models for how we can advance a campus cyber infrastructure. Ah,
Ana Hunsinger: the direct engagement and long-term planning, and I mentioned we're likely going to be learning first of all, a lot about the approach, but also what's going to happen in this five year. Continuum,
Ana Hunsinger: You know we're looking at a variety of campus contexts, including, you know,
Ana Hunsinger: a tribal college university component, but also Hbcu components or a multi-campus instantiation of several Hpc. Us. Working together.
Ana Hunsinger: A few updates on this we are currently about to announce which are going to be the face one recipients of this program,
Ana Hunsinger: and um, I am not at liberty yet to share this with the community, but it's coming imminently when we will be announcing, announcing again the first face of the campuses that we will be working with.
Ana Hunsinger: And Ah, let's see um! We ran a solicitation. Ah! And learn a lot from from that. We work very directly with the proposals for this effort.
Ana Hunsinger: And um, you know currently, you know, while we again are sorting out how we go about making the announcements just this week we met with all the Pocg candidate campuses to convey with great excitement that
Ana Hunsinger: how we're going to be moving forward, and how we plan to execute things Really, Really, soon we'll be in a position to share which ones are the campuses that we get to work with on an initial face of this program as well.
Ana Hunsinger: Um, one ah
Ana Hunsinger: final piece before I start wrapping it up is that you know we're starting with a limited number of campuses on this approval of the proof of constant Grant program.
Ana Hunsinger: That's not to say that we will not be also doing more for the rest of the campuses that come together through the Mcc.
Ana Hunsinger: We are developing an approach to what we're calling facilitation services with a number of things that we hope are available to any of the msc campuses, as they're also looking at their ci planning and other things that may be needed.
Ana Hunsinger: And
Ana Hunsinger: all right. I mentioned the workshops. We are learning a lot about every time we visit one of the campuses, and that we work with the campus.
Ana Hunsinger: And you know, from launching these who are an epidemic and still operating now in a new normal now when we bring people face to face.
Ana Hunsinger: But the important thing is again to to work, look at with each campus so that we can bring to the forefront what would be most impactful for their campus. And again, that ah state pulmonary engagement that needs to happen. Also, when we bring you know activities to to the campus, particularly in the context of Ci one
Ana Hunsinger: Um, This slide just tells you a little bit more on the broader impacts and other components of this most recent award. Again, some ah key components here to emphasize that really important are the workforce development component and the you know, campus infrastructure. But also the research and collaboration consists as well.
Ana Hunsinger: I know it's a really loaded slide. So ah and ah! But hopefully afterwards you'll have an opportunity to read this in more detail, or look up the award, and you can read more of the details as well.
Ana Hunsinger: I'm going to do a brief commercial about another really exciting activity that's coming up the Msc. Will be hosting its inaugural annual meeting in Atlanta in May, so I hope that
Ana Hunsinger: you can participate, and the meeting is open to anybody in the community to participate
Ana Hunsinger: a few other things. We are ah currently doing another whole Ah! Whole survey with the community. We just released it at the end of last month. We're probably going to keep it open for a little bit more, And again, this will allow us to calibrate
Ana Hunsinger: activities for the rest of the year and into the future as well.
Ana Hunsinger: And we're also looking at feeling some important resources and staffing decisions. This order, and these are some of the ones that you know. We're we're we're looking for our director and also a role to help us with. Ah, more of the technical pieces that support Ci and the work the direct and work with Msc. As well.
Ana Hunsinger: I just want to say in closing. And again, I hope you know I am a messenger. Here I am I. Api. But I'm really here representing, and i'm humble by being here representing
Ana Hunsinger: the group of colleagues that are really the the forces that that drive the Mcc. Um on their behalf and my behalf. I want to say that we're really thankful for this support That Nsf:
Ana Hunsinger: it's investing in the Msc. And viewing the Msc. Cs. A Change Agent. Ah. Capable of advancing strategies and programs that can advance important research and education work of Tc. Use Hbc. News and Ah. Hsi and the broader community of Msis
Ana Hunsinger: Uh. The expertise of ideas and perspectives from these institutions
Ana Hunsinger: need to be more fully brought to bear on there
Ana Hunsinger: scientific and societal societal challenges facing our country.
Ana Hunsinger: Ah! For years our colleagues at these institutions have been responsible for nurturing their students, supporting their faculty and uplifting their communities
Ana Hunsinger: through the Msc. We hope our our collective efforts can bridge digital divides and ensure the equal participation of these institutions with ambiguous and the broader community.
Ana Hunsinger: So thank you very much, and I think that that still gives us some time for questions, and i'm going to stop sharing now,
Ana Hunsinger: and i'm gonna take a sip of water in the meantime. So Kristy
Ana Hunsinger: back at you,
Christine Christy: please. Thank you. Thank you very much, Anna for that presentation. Um. So i'll go ahead, and i'll direct our online attendees to answer any questions that they may have into the Q. A. At the bottom of your zoom bar. Um, let me go ahead. And this.
Christine Christy: So we have one question here on. I'm not sure if you can see not um, but I can go ahead and read it just for everyone's awareness. So it's from an anonymous attendee. I see the issues that include competing priorities. You know that many Msi campuses are quite small, and they are just not many personnel, so that one person may wear many hats, yet needs exist for cyber, security, networking, et cetera, that may not differ from larger campuses.
Christine Christy: What models are you considering for Nsf. To use to best support a large number of small, tiny institutions.
Ana Hunsinger: He's
Ana Hunsinger: Thank you for that question. And if um if I may, I think that this is where through the approved concept Grant program. Ah, we're going to get to. Maybe, you know, explore what those models may be. One of the components of this
Ana Hunsinger: particular program is
Ana Hunsinger: gonna have us, you know. Do a combination of funding, and again both dedicated facilitation. But the the Our. D's will be able to get
Ana Hunsinger: funding. That will go specifically towards local c. I work with development and planning activities, and what we ask. Each campus is to tell us, how would they plan to use
Ana Hunsinger: that in year? One funding uh to uh
Ana Hunsinger: to plan what they
Ana Hunsinger: felt would be most needed
Ana Hunsinger: to either address competing priorities or to enable that campus to start
Ana Hunsinger: doing certain things
Ana Hunsinger: so far. Um. What we've seen is through the applications that we have is that most of them identified the need to fund ci facilitation and engagement at the campus level, and that by having so, or by relieving through the funding some of the time for those that are
Ana Hunsinger: who in other things in the campus, this would allow. Ah,
Ana Hunsinger: perhaps some things to advance and allow.
Ana Hunsinger: Take care
Ana Hunsinger: people to have time to then dedicate to the Cia facilitation and all that. So this is new. This is different. Which is It's the funding of actual,
Ana Hunsinger: an actual resource at the campus level to upset
Ana Hunsinger: perhaps the competing priority. So that, said. We also ask each campus to
Ana Hunsinger: help us in year. One not get prescriptive, either, so we don't know what we don't know, but what we ask them to do is to tell us how would they plan just to get started to start having this conversation about how we may frame them. Ah, long-term roadmap.
Ana Hunsinger: So I don't really
Ana Hunsinger: have an answer of what model is going to work
Ana Hunsinger: and what we expect to learn a lot from is going to be. Once we start working, for example, with a tribal college that the context, even for the
Ana Hunsinger: um assumption that we make that we'll be able to hire resources for that campus. We may actually need to do certain things to work with that campus and make a different approach, because hiring at a tribal college may be very different than the
Ana Hunsinger: possibilities or options that say another institutional context may have. For that
Christine Christy: I left myself on mute.
Christine Christy: Thank you for that, Anna. I'll go ahead and close out that answer. We have another question from Martin Halberd. His question is, Can you comment further about what kinds of repository Ci may have the most utility for Hvc use. Do you think that regional repositories have a role to serve? Hbc.
Ana Hunsinger: I think the answer to the second question is, Yes, I think that what would have the most utility, I think we. Well, first of all,
Ana Hunsinger: I I should say I come from operating in an environment where I know what's happening in the community. Because I'm very involved in working with a you know, through Internet to on you know what's going on in the Internet to community.
Ana Hunsinger: These things are not well known either. And that said, I think that there's some work to be done to make sure that we are better at communicating
Ana Hunsinger: what it is available through either other Msf funded efforts, or how different organizations may already be engaging and providing
Ana Hunsinger: something to Ah,
Ana Hunsinger: Perhaps Mscc. Campuses and others. Um, we've been trying to collect those, and it's just a question of also asking the community of the msc campuses the same question. What would have the most utility for them? And again, one hundred and fifty.
Ana Hunsinger: I see our role as facilitating those conversations. But, um! I feel that the better answer is provided by those that are really at an Hbcu or a tribal college, and that they can say, what would they find in most utility at this point in time. One hundred,
Christine Christy: Martin. Thank you for that question and honor. Thank you for that answer.
Christine Christy: We currently Don't, have any other questions lined up in the queue. Um, but i'll leave room. Uh we do have a little bit more time before we close out today. If anybody else does have any questions again, you can go ahead and put those right into the Q. A. Function at the bottom of your zoom toolbar.
Christine Christy: Okay. So you know, there are questions popping up in the queue. Um! I'll go ahead, and Anna or Amy, do you have any closing comments before I give my closing comments and close out this Webinar for today,
Amy Walton: just to thank you very much on a very nice overview presentation of all of the activities that are going on, and how important they are. Thank you for that. And back to you, Christine. A wonderful ah session today.
Christine Christy: Thank you, Amy and Anna again. We would like to thank you very much for your participation in your presentation today. Um, Again, we will make this Webinar available. Um! So please check our events page in the future. Um! And speaking of the feature, our next oac technical talk will be in April on April twenty sixth, with give you a segment. Um. So I will go ahead and close out the Webinar today. Thank you all again, and with that we'll close.
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Amy Walton: thank you on a huntinger.
Christine Christy: Thank you. Thank you, Kristy. Thank you.