C-13
Information Technology Committee
Committee Members
Flamm, Kenneth, public affairs, chair
Kovar, Desiderio, mechanical engineering,vice chair
Faculty Members
Almy, Dean J., architecture
Duke, Robert A., music
Grobe, Susan J., nursing
Raizen, Esther L., Middle
Eastern studies
Rowe, Timothy B., geological
sciences
Strover, Sharon L.,
radio-television-film
1Mary L. Rice-Lively resigned from the committee on January 27, 2006,
due to a scheduling conflict.
2Daniel H. Robinson resigned from the committee on January 27, 2006,
due to a scheduling conflict.
Staff Members
Burns, David A.,
business school
Donovan, Bennett, Information
Technology Services
Gavenda, Philip M.,
admissions
Simon, R. Frank, fine
arts
Student Members
Gilstrap, Stephen,
Senate of College Councils representative, business
Guo, Runhua, Graduate
Student Assembly representative, engineering
Kennedy, Christopher J.,
Student Government representative, public affairs
Priven, Moira E., Graduate
Student Assembly representative, foreign language education
Administrative Advisers (ex officio)
Ashcroft, Judy C.,
associate vice president, Division of Innovative Instruction and Assessment
Brumfield, Jeffrey A., representative,
college and school technology coordinators, associate dean, Instructional
Technology
Lavender, Robert G. (Greg),
director, computer sciences
Reynolds, Athena H., representative, financial affairs
Updegrove,
Daniel A.,
vice president, information technology
Meeting Dates
The full Information Technology (IT) Committee met six times during
the 2005-06 year. The dates and locations of the meetings are listed
below.
Friday, September 2, 2005-SRH 3
October 28, 2005-SRH 3
November 18, 2005-WC Hogg, Dean’s conference room
December 16, 2005-FAC 228D
January 27, 2006-FAC 228D
February 24, 2006-FAC 228D
Summary of Actions
As a newly formed committee, much of this year was spent determining
the role this committee would play and how it would interact with existing
committees that deal with aspects of IT-related services such as the
eUniversity Steering Committee (eUSC), IT Coordinating Council (ITCC),
and the IT Advisory Committee (ITAC). In many respects, this task is
still a work in progress that will need to be further clarified in
the coming years.
The committee initially chose to focus its attention on reviewing
existing and future policies that influence students, staff, and faculty.
After a presentation by Craig Blaha, project coordinator for ITS, and
Cam Beasley, director of the UT Information Security Office, in which
they outlined present and draft policies that were under consideration,
the committee felt that this issue required further examination. In
particular, we spent considerable time scrutinizing a draft document
of Business Procedures Memorandum (BPM) 75-04-06, Protecting the Confidentiality
and Integrity of Digital Research Data. Many of the committee members felt that
the proposed policies were overly restrictive, included unfunded mandates, and
would be detrimental to the campus community. At our January 27 meeting,
C.W. Goldsmith, associate vice chancellor and chief information officer
for the UT System was invited to discuss our concerns regarding the proposed
policies. This meeting led to a considerable number of changes to the draft.
The final BPM was approved by the UT System office on April
11, 2006, and is in the process of being implemented at UT Austin.
Other issues were raised but the committee did not have time to address
them in its first year. These included:
| 1. |
Ensuring that there is a process in place for reviewing policies
that might adversely affect students, staff, and faculty. Some
committee members felt that there is currently no feedback loop
in place to address this issue . |
| 2. |
Coordinating with other IT committees and other UT Standing
Committees such as the libraries committee to review policies that
may cut across more than one committee’s mission. |
Desiderio Kovar, vice chair
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