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Executive Council Easy Access Page

Executive Council Easy Access Page

Purpose

The ACCESS Executive Council (EC) is the primary governance body overseeing the execution of the ACCESS Program. The EC provides the necessary coordination and governance of the day-to-day execution of all ACCESS Service and provides the leadership to maintain a researcher-centric orientation and encourages operational excellence.

Logistics

The EC currently meets weekly on Tuesdays at 2 PM ET / 1 PM CT / 12 PM MT / 11 AM PT.

 

Quick Link to ACO Site Map: https://access-ci.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/ACP/pages/436273182

Current ACCESS Projects and Publications: https://allocations.access-ci.org/current-projects

Membership of EC

Role

Name

Institution

Role

Name

Institution

Allocations PI (v)

Bruno Abreau

PSC

Allocations 2nd

Nathan Tolbert

NCSA

Support PI (v)

Shelley Knuth

University of Colorado - Boulder

Support Deputy Director

Alana Romanella

University of Colorado - Boulder

Operations PI (v)

Tim Boerner

NCSA/Illinois

Operations Deputy Director

Leslie Froeschl

NCSA/Illinois

Metrics PI (v)

Tom Furlani

University of Buffalo

Metrics Co-PI

Joseph White

University of Buffalo

ACO PI (v)

John Towns

NCSA/Illinois

ACO Co-PI SDSC

Amit Majumdar

SDSC

Resource Provider Chair (v)

Eric Adams

Purdue University

Resource Provider Co-Chair

Virginia Trueheart

TACC

EAB Facilitator

Chuck Pavloski

NCSA/Illinois

ACO Project Mgr.

Misha Shah and Shannon Bradley

NCSA/Illinois

NSF Program Officer

Sharon Geva (ex officio) and Ed Walker(ex officio)

NSF

External Evaluator

Lisa Kaczmarczyk

 

(v) indicates an EC voting member

List of EC Meeting Notes

EC Meeting To Do Items

https://access-ci.atlassian.net/jira/core/projects/ATT/list?sortBy=duedate&direction=ASC&filter=%22Category%5BCategory%5D%22%20IN%20(%22EC%20Meeting%20To%20Do%22%2C%20%2224Feb-QtrlyMtg%22%2C%20%2224June-QtrlyMtg%22)%20AND%20status%20IN%20(%22In-Progress%22%2C%20%22To%20Do%22)

EC Program Milestones - JIRA

https://access-ci.atlassian.net/jira/core/projects/ECMT/list?sortBy=duedate&direction=ASC&filter=status%20IN%20%28%22Annually%22%2C%20%22In%20Progress%22%2C%20%22Monthly%22%2C%20%22Ongoing%22%2C%20%22Quarterly%22%2C%20%22Semi%20Annually%22%2C%20%22Upcoming%22%29

Decision Report from EC Meetings

Title

Decisions

Title

Decisions

https://access-ci.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/ACP/pages/2027159557/2026-03-03+-+ACCESS+EC+Meeting+Agenda+Summary

  1. Approved: Policy NSF request regarding restricting users from non-authorized countries - ready to implement as long as we move to remove users who have non institutional emails now

https://access-ci.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/ACP/pages/1803780097/2025-12-09+-+ACCESS+EC+Meeting+Agenda+Summary

  1. AUP - next version approved: ACCESS Acceptable Use Policy v1.4

https://access-ci.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/ACP/pages/1791033345/2025-12-02+-+ACCESS+EC+Meeting+Agenda+Summary

  1. Issue: When On-Boarding and Off-Boarding staff - teams will send in a help Ticket for on-boarding and Off-boarding when people join and leave the project. This will ensure that proper access to systems is provided and removed as needed.

https://access-ci.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/ACP/pages/1648853029/2025-09-30+-+ACCESS+EC+Meeting+Agenda+Summary

  1. Who are our users: Revised approved Text: Our primary user audience includes researchers and educators who consume ACCESS-allocated resources, with active support prioritized for those directly using these resources. At the same time, ACCESS secondarily supports prospective users and broader communities who may benefit from our services, training materials, documentation, and outreach. To meet varying user needs, we tailor support and materials to users at all experience levels.

https://access-ci.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/ACP/pages/1290470085/2025-06-17+ACCESS+EC+Meeting+Agenda+Summary

  1. Resolution for PY4 focus - fits with NSF recommendations: What is ACCESS and Data Driven decisions

https://access-ci.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/ACP/pages/1290469849/2025-05-06+ACCESS+EC+Meeting+Agenda+Summary

  1. Ec approved ACCESS Wide Goal 4 language change to: "Expand the use of resources and services available via ACCESS"

https://access-ci.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/ACP/pages/1290469613/2025-04-22+ACCESS+EC+Meeting+Agenda+Summary

  1. Reconsider re-imagining the DEI/Democratization SC in light of NSF updated priorities - add support where the CB&E effort is no longer available

https://access-ci.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/ACP/pages/1277558789/2025-03-18+ACCESS+EC+Meeting+Agenda+Summary

  1. EC will plan team wide goals for PY4 and PY5 together - Clarification: look at it like how can 1 team help another achieve their PEP goals

https://access-ci.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/ACP/pages/1242464261/2025-03-11+ACCESS+EC+Meeting+Agenda+Summary

  1. Approved Charter Change to eliminate Infrastructure Portfolio Expansion Standing Committee needing to have decisions that have been approved by all impacted Teams brought up to the EC to give final approval. SC will make decisions and inform EC of decisions and progress going forward.

https://access-ci.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/ACP/pages/1226113056/2025-03-04+ACCESS+EC+Meeting+Agenda+Summary

  1. Decision: EC has decided to request the EAB review their charter and change the structure of their board to remove the RP representative from the EAB since the RP now has a voting representation in the EC

 

 

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