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Computing Steering Committee Minutes
of Meetings: Present: Batson, Boyer, Cossey, Keller, Klein, McFadden, Sorum, Spallholz (for Traver), Wolf 1. Doug Klein welcomed the members, and stressed the importance of this new committee, which will shape IT policy, planning, and budget requests for the College. This committee will work in tandem with a similar Administrative committee. 2. Tom McFadden proposed the name "Academic Computing Steering Committee", which was approved. 3. Dave Cossey presented a report from the previous evening’s news on student use of the web, and the race for colleges and universities to meet student expectations. 4. Under the heading of "choose your battles", the committee discussed the following goals: Policy leadership: Be visible and respected on campus; be responsible for major policy issues, but not day-to-day operations. Examples of policy issues are: technical literacy requirements; integrated web-based advising; network security and use. Planning: Establish a long-term, regularly revised, plan for IT, and IT expenditures. Establish a structure and format for requesting information technology funding from all campus units; to develop a process for evaluating and prioritizing these requests; and to develop a method for distributing these funds and for tracking their expenditure (in a very general way). Work toward a more seamless integration of the various components of IT, but be realistic in both requests and promises. Support: Establish the general outline of a program for supporting faculty members in efforts to incorporate IT into classroom instruction; assess campus needs for equipment and software for this purpose; assess campus needs for training and technical support for this purpose. Support and reward faculty making effective use of technology, especially in enhancing the curriculum. Support includes financial, technical staff, and recognition in promotion and tenure decisions. Assessment: Establish goals for use of IT, and measure progress toward those goals. Next meeting: next week, same time, same place. |
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