Executive Council Meetings

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

Membership of Interim EC

Role

Name

Institution

Role

Name

Institution

Allocations PI (v)

Stephen Deems

PSC

Allocations Co-PI

Dave Hart

NCAR

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)

Jeremy Fischer

Indiana University

Resource Provider Co-Chair

Eric Adams

Purdue University

EAB Facilitator

Chuck Pavloski

NCSA/Illinois

ACO Project Mgr.

Lavanya Podila and Shannon Bradley

NCSA/Illinois

NSF Program Officer

Sharon Geva (ex officio) and Puri Bangalore (ex officio)

NSF

External Evaluator

Lisa Kaczmarczyk

 

(v) indicates an EC voting member

List of EC Meeting Notes

EC Meeting To Do Items

EC Program Milestones - JIRA

Decision Report from EC Meetings

Title

Decisions

Title

Decisions

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

https://access-ci.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/ACP/pages/1145667588/2025-02-11+ACCESS+EC+Meeting+Agenda+Summary

  1. As of this meeting we are Suspending all activities on ACCESS Wide Goal #4 until we know more about the impact of Executive Orders and are updated by NSF

https://access-ci.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/ACP/pages/1102348374/2025-01-28+ACCESS+EC+Meeting+Agenda+Summary

  1. EC asks the DEI committee to suspend meeting until we have more guidance from NSF regarding the EO from the Trump Administration on DEI

https://access-ci.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/ACP/pages/1103102038/2025-01-21+ACCESS+EC+Meeting+Agenda+Summary

  1. Try Consent Agenda style agendas for 6 months to see if it streamlines meetings

https://access-ci.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/ACP/pages/967737345/2024-11-12+ACCESS+EC+Meeting+Agenda+Summary

  1. ACCESS Ticketing System Standing Committee Charter - Approved

https://access-ci.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/ACP/pages/964263937/2024-11-05+ACCESS+EC+Meeting+Agenda+Summary

  1. We will move forward with planning 2 in person meetings per year and requesting supplements in the appropriate manner for each awardee

https://access-ci.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/ACP/pages/825688680/2024-10-29+ACCESS+EC+Meeting+Agenda+Summary

  1. EC approves a recommendation to attend Tapia in 2025 - will decide next year

https://access-ci.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/ACP/pages/825721171/2024-10-22+ACCESS+EC+Meeting+Agenda+Summary

  1. Any recommendations from the EAB about Ticketing System should go through the Web Standing Committee

 

 

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