Education Policy, Business and Technology

UC San Francisco Outsourcing IT Ops to India

Campus Technology: IT people are sounding sick from the announcement that the University of California San Francisco intends to outsource many of its technology functions to an India-based service provider. Reporting by Computerworld found that layoffs for some 17 percent of the institution's 565-employee IT staff will hit next February — after those same workers have trained Indian replacements employed by HCL Technologies.

The university is focused entirely on health areas, with four schools: dentistry, nursing, medicine and pharmacy. According to UCSF's website, there are currently 3,114 students enrolled in degree programs, 1,479 residents and 1,127 post-doctoral scholars. However, that small student body belies the size of the overall institution, which is currently the second largest employer in the city. UCSF's paid workforce comprises 22,000 staff and nearly 2,800 faculty.

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