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The digital research landscape has changed dramatically over the years, as campuses across the nation have gained access to local research computing resources and services. The Campus Champions program, [1] founded in 2008, has also evolved with these changes to accommodate and support the diversity and growth of the research computing community that we have long supported. Our mission, to promote and facilitate the effective participation of a diverse national community of institutions in the application of advanced digital resources and services to accelerate scientific discovery and scholarly achievement, has been made possible by sustained funding from the National Science Foundation (NSF) via the eXtreme Science and Engineering Discovery Environment (XSEDE) [2] over the past ten years, and has enabled the Campus Champions program to support campus cyberinfrastructure and to foster a thriving community of practice [3] with nationwide impact. To facilitate the continued growth and sustainability of the Campus Champions program beyond XSEDE, and to provide a deeper understanding of the Champion culture and needs, the Champions Sustainability Working Group and the XSEDE Evaluation team conducted a climate study in 2018. The recommendations provided by the climate study will inform our Leadership Team and staff on how we may further our community outreach goals and plan for the future of the program. This paper will highlight and discuss the development, implementation, key findings, and recommendations from that study.

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In recent years, considerable attention has been given to assessing the value of investments in cyberinfrastructure (CI). This paper focuses on assessment of value measured in ways other than financial benefits - what might well be termed impact or outcomes. This paper is a companion to a paper presented at the PEARC'19 conference, which focused on methods for assessing financial returns on investment. In this paper we focus on methods for assessing impacts such as effect on publication production, importance of publications, and assistance with major scientific accomplishments as signified by major awards. We in particular focus on the role of humans in the loop - humanware. This includes a brief description of the roles humans play in facilitating use of research cyberinfratructure - including clouds - and then a discussion of how those impacts have been assessed. Our conclusion overall is that there has been more progress in the past very few years in developing methods for the quantitative assessment of financial returns on investment than there has been in assessing non-quantitative impacts. There are a few clear actions that many research institutions could take to start better assessing the non-financial impacts of investment in cyberinfrastructure. However, there is a great need for assessment efforts to turn more attention to the assessment of non-financial benefits of investment in cyberinfrastructure, particularly the benefits of investing in humans and the benefits to humans who are involved in supporting and using cyberinfrastructure, including clouds.

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In recent years, considerable attention has been given to assessing the value of investments in cyberinfrastructure (CI). This paper includes a survey of current methods for the assessment of financial returns on investment (ROI) in CI. Applying the financial concept of ROI proves challenging with regard to a service that, in most academic environments, does not generate a "sold amount" such as one would find in the buying and selling of stocks. The paper concludes with a discussion of future research directions and challenges in the assessment of financial ROI in CI. This work is intended less as a definitive guide than as a starting point for further exploration in the assessment of CI's value for scientific research.