• Identify new opportunities and issues and help provide campus vision for them, coordinating with other campus groups as appropriate.
• Provide coordination and guidance for ongoing campus initiatives, coordinating with other campus groups as appropriate.
• Recommend priorities among campus-level initiatives based upon programmatic importance and resource needs
  example: infrastructure support for off-campus access.
• Provide leadership and coordination in the implementation of the campus' IT overall vision.

The IT Council provides high-level management (policy, budgetary, and organizational) recommendations related to campus-wide information technology issues.

• Provide or coordinate recommendations on needs for and allocations of campus-wide information technology infrastructure resources.
• Provide or coordinate recommendation on IT policies.
• Provide or coordinate recommendations on IT costs and pricing.
• Provide or coordinate recommendation on IT organizational models.

The IT Council provides communication and advocacy for IT.

• Communicate with CU-Boulder students, faculty and staff through advisory groups to IT council and campus-wide communications, and assist in developing external communications.
• Provide and coordinate CU-Boulder representation in system, regional and national IT groups and functions.
• Identify external funding opportunities and help assure that CU is responsive to them.
• Serve as an advocate for campus IT needs and priorities to Chancellor, cabinet, and campus.