A New Vision of the University of Texas Academic Information Environment, 1995-2001
TOWARD THE VIRTUAL UNIVERSITY
May 22, 1995
Contents and Recommendations
- Overview
- Background
- New Opportunities and Challenges
- The Current Status of Academic Computing
- Recommendations (Includes highlights of recommendations and links to supplements containing rationale of committee in support of recommendations)
- Summary
- New Vision Plan Subcommittee Members
- Recommendation 1 Adopt the goal of universal access to information technology for all members of the University community and take steps to assure that every user is offered the support needed to assume an identity and active role in this electronic community.
- Recommendation 2 Invest in the development of new models of instruction based on innovations in information technologies.
- Recommendation 3 Provide students, faculty, and staff with seamless, easy-to-use, and secure network access to the information they need for study, teaching, research, and administration.
- Recommendation 4 Institutionalize systematic, campus-wide strategic planning of information resources and technologies that includes all providers and consumers in the decision making process.
- Recommendation 5 Position the General Libraries as a central resource in the University's network of information resources so that it can continue to play a leadership role in guiding the use and dissemination of electronic media.
- Recommendation 6 Enhance access to high performance computational services in support of ongoing research and graduate training through the regular funding of local computational resources as well as connections to major national and international facilities.
- Recommendation 7 Pursue initiatives intended to develop UT as a "virtual university" capable of reaping the benefits of serving a new and diverse clientele throughout the state, nation, and world.
6 March 1996
Faculty Computer Committee at UT Austin
Mail to: markl.decker@mail.utexas.edu