IT governance roundup

Teaching and Learning Portfolio

March 21 • Portfolio representatives voted in members of the Learning Spaces Task Force. The Task Force is charged with meeting with Learning Spaces funding applicants to gather information on behalf of the portfolio.

Learning Spaces Task Force members:

• Paul Burrows, information architect, Teaching & Learning Technologies
• Mike Ekstrom, director, UIT Common Infrastructure Services and Unified Communications
• Jeff Folsom, IT supervisor, Eccles Health Sciences Library
• Trevor Long, UIT Common Infrastructure Services
• Steven Seal, IT director, College of Health
• Scott Sherman, special assistant to the CIO
• Adam Stewart, associate director, Teaching & Learning Technologies
• Cassandra Van Buren, UIT associate director, Strategic Communication
• Robert White, IT director, Continuing Education & Community Engagement

The portfolio reviewed questions to be posed during interviews with Learning Spaces funding applicants, such as how decisions for student-directed technologies are made; what deciding factors go into A/V configurations and installations; how useful partial funding is; and ways to improve the process. Members discussed additional sources of funding that may exist for classroom technology. Paul Burrows noted that rollup figures for total requests stand at $3.66 million, up from last year’s $2.87 million allocation. Chief Information Officer Steve Hess asked TLT Director Jon Thomas to create a survey to gauge students’ technology needs and concerns, with assistance from Associate Professor Kirsten Butcher and Marriott Library Associate Dean Catherine Soehner. Burrows walked the group through the new TLT website and knowledge base.

New governance group kickoff

March 25 • Two new IT governance groups have been created: The Architecture and New Technology Committee (ANTC) and Strategic Information Technology Committee (SITC).

The ANTC will address IT issues and propose recommendations affecting IT architecture and architecture standards, IT common services, and the adoption and implementation of significant new technologies. The group will make recommendations to the SITC based on the consensus-driven opinion of the representatives.

The SITC is entrusted with raising, hearing, and discussing those IT issues that affect significant portions of the University community or cross multiple areas of oversight. The group will make recommendations to the President’s Executive Leadership Team based on consensus-driven opinion of the majority of the major campus academic and administrative units.

Full membership information.

Upcoming meetings:
ANTC: 10:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. May 23, Dumke Conference Room
SITC: 10:30 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. May 25, Dumke Conference Room

 

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