CHARGES TO THE COMMITTEE ON ACADEMIC COMPUTING

AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS FOR FY-03

Approved by SenEx: 6/26/02

Standing Charges

1. Meet with the Provost and/or the Provost’s representative to offer the Committee’s assistance on Academic Computing and Telecommunications matters.

2. Provide faculty, students, and staff input for the strategic initiatives in the KU Information Technology Management and Budget Plan.

3. Serve as a forum for discussing distance learning, online instruction, intellectual property, and other issues relating to academic use of information technology.

4. Review current university policies related to information technology (listed at http://www.ku.edu/~vcinfo/IT_policy/index.htm), and provide recommendations to the Vice Chancellor for Information Services on any changes or additions as needed.

5. Submit to SenEx: a) the approved minutes of each meeting; b) recommendations approved by the committee, and c) a final report by April 1, 2003. The final report should outline the committee’s accomplishments and make recommendations for the following year(s).

Additional Charges

6. Continue to review the current organization for faculty/staff/student off campus access accounts and encourage steps for improving coordination/uniformity.

7. Continue to review Exchange email services.

8. Monitor, review, and make recommendations on all NTS policies and practices including but not limited to; current funding structure, implications of advanced activities that require multicasting-enabled communications, topology of communications under the Internet 2 protocols, and other NTS activities that impact The University of Kansas.

9. Encourage the University to provide local computer support in each building. The goal should be (1) to have at least one support person per 100 desktop computers, and (2) to have each support person assigned to a group of users (not dispatched from a pool). Review the recent survey of current local computer support to determine how far we are from this goal.

10. Insist on, and assist when appropriate, progress toward obtaining email services for new hires promptly.

11. Monitor the progress toward providing online computer instruction for students, faculty, and staff.

12. Provide input to IT management on policy and procedural issues related to computer security on campus, including the need for a policy on wireless access nodes.

13. Recommend standards to insure that all campus technical support personnel obtain an adequate level of training.