awards.

Too often the work of IT goes unrecognized.

Facilitating the expansion of human knowledge is no small feat. CUCCIO’s members take this monumental task and make it a daily occurrence.

It is our pleasure to recognize
that hard work.

Awards.

Annually, we take time apart from our busy schedules to recognize and celebrate the incredible efforts and contributions from individuals, groups or institutions whose work exemplifies CUCCIO’s founding principles of innovation, collaboration and communication across Canada’s higher education IT community. Dozens of applications are cut down to a series of finalists by a panel of expert judges. Finally we gather each year at CANHEIT to award our winners and celebrate the enormous contributions of our community.

General considerations.

    • Nominations must be submitted by a CUCCIO member.

    • Projects must be completed within the previous 12 months.

    • Self-nominations (“selfies”) are acceptable.

    • Applications open April 16, 2024 @ 7:30 am EDT

    • Applications close May 17, 2023 @ 11:59 pm EDT

Category specific considerations.

  • The Innovation award recognizes significant advances in teaching, learning, research, or administration through the application of IT.

    Criteria:

    • Innovation in the application of existing tech or the development of new ones.

    • The impact of benefits achieved or planned.

    • Applicability to other members.

  • The Collaboration award recognizes sharing. Sharing between institutions, campuses, faculties or departments that lead to a next level of efficiency and effectiveness.

    Criteria:

    • Breadth and extent of collaboration.

    • Impact of benefits achieved or planned.

    • Applicability or other members.

  • The CIO of the Year award recognizes a CIO (or equivalent) who builds, supports, and enriches our community.

  • The Emerging Leader award recognizes an up-and-comer who builds, supports, and represents the coming wave of leaders in higher education IT.

Celebrating past submissions

Our industry moves at the speed of thought. It's always relevant to look back on the past moments of celebration to see all that we’ve accomplished. Take a look at the projects that are thought of as the worthy of note.

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  • Innovation - University of Alberta’s Plaintext Password Sniffing Project.
    Finalists

    • University of Toronto | NGSIS Platform Modernization

    • University of Victoria | Research Administration Information System

    Collaboration - Information Security SIG’s Cyber Incident Response Framework
    Finalists

    • University of Alberta | Learning Management Consortium Migration of Moodle to the Cloud

    • The University of British Columbia | The learning Technology Environment (LTE) Renewal Project

    Community - Gayleen Gray, CTO and AVP IT at McMaster University

  • Innovation - The University of British Columbia’s Emerging Media Lab

    Finalists:

    • Simon Fraser University | A New Network Data Architecture using Software Defined Architecture

    • University of Ontario Institute of Technology | Artemis Cloud Implementation

    Collaboration - Nova Scotia Higher Education IT Shared Services (HISS)

    Finalists:

    • Simon Fraser University | Development of SFU’s One I.S. Strategy

    • University of Victoria | Higher Ed IT Procurement Project

    Community - Art Exner, Associate Vice President Information Technology (IT) Services, University of Regina

  • Innovation - University of Northern British Columbia’s Enhanced Business Continuity Through the Application of Docker Containerization

    Finalists:

    • Simon Fraser University | The Official SFU App Suite

    • University of Calgary | Secure Compute

    Collaboration - University of Alberta’s ShareIT Project

    Finalists:

    • Simon Fraser University Data Centre: Installation of Cedar

    • Laurentian University | Ontario Group’s Shared CISO

    Community Rick Bunt, retired CIO University of Saskatchewan

  • Recipients and finalists

  • Innovation - University of Toronto’s Online Proctoring Pilot Project

    Collaboration - New Brunswick/Prince Edward Island Education Computing Network.

    Community - Jeff Gardiner, chair CUCCIO’s Security Information Group

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