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

1 Purpose
2 Logistics
3 Membership of EC
4 List of EC Meeting Notes
5 EC Meeting To Do Items
6 EC Program Milestones - JIRA
7 Decision Report from EC Meetings

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/2417623041/2026-07-14+-+ACCESS+EC+Meeting+Agenda+Summary	Accepted Eric Adams as new EC Facilitator
https://access-ci.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/ACP/pages/2365587457/2026-06-23+-+ACCESS+EC+Meeting+Agenda+Summary	The summaries of Staff, Community and RP surveys were approved for release during today’s meeting
https://access-ci.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/ACP/pages/2284027912/2026-05-26+-+ACCESS+EC+Meeting+Agenda+Summary	ACCESS Data Working Group Charter - approved
https://access-ci.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/ACP/pages/2229895169/2026-05-05+-+ACCESS+EC+Meeting+Agenda+Summary	EC Approved Infrastructure Portfolio Expansion Committee definitions of Allocated, Enabled, Aligned, and Services and how they determine whether a resource will be approved to be part of ACCESS
https://access-ci.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/ACP/pages/2027159557/2026-03-03+-+ACCESS+EC+Meeting+Agenda+Summary	Approved: Policy, (opens new window) 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	AUP - next version approved: ACCESS Acceptable Use Policy v1.4, (opens new window)
https://access-ci.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/ACP/pages/1791033345/2025-12-02+-+ACCESS+EC+Meeting+Agenda+Summary	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/1686175745/2025-11-04+-+ACCESS+EC+Meeting+Agenda+Summary	Approved EC response to EAB questions from EAB Recommendations Discussion - Sept 4 2025 Approved RP terminology and application docs - Infrastructure Expansion Standing Committee is proposing new terminology regarding various levels of ACCESS resource providers be adopted and new application form for non-ACSS resources who would like to apply to be an ACCESS RP
https://access-ci.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/ACP/pages/1648853029/2025-09-30+-+ACCESS+EC+Meeting+Agenda+Summary	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	Resolution for PY4 focus - fits with NSF recommendations: What is ACCESS and Data Driven decisions