Minutes of the AHS IT Committee
May 6, 2013
Present: Jose Arocha, Robin Duncan, Katherine Marshall, Bill McIlroy (Chair), Steven Mock, Terry Stewart.
Regrets: Thomas Karakolis
1. Chair Remarks
Bill McIlory will no longer chair this committee. He has been appointed Chair of Kinesiology. The committee discussed various alternatives for the role of Chair.
- Since the committee reports to Admin Council, it is important that an individual with an administrative role hold the position. The committee aims to be responsive and a faculty member as a chair may help facilitate that. The next Chair should provide greater structure to bring action items from each meeting forward to Admin Council.
- Possible choices to fulfil the role of Chair include:
- rotating through the department reps;
- the Associate Dean of Research (the current model); might depend on the comfort level of the AD/Research in chairing a technical committee
- the Associate Dean of Undergraduate Studies; this might be a good choice because of his association to teaching and student experiences;
- newly appointed Associate Dean (Jim);
- Associate Dean of Computing (reintroduce roll?)
Action: Bill will bring suggestions forward to Admin Council. Bill will also call a meeting once the next Associate Dean of Research is announced for input on the role of chair.
2. Report of IT Director
The report of the IT Director is available.
3. UW IT Strategic Plan
The committee discussed the draft of UW IT Strategic Plan as distributed. The overall consensus was that the plan was on the right track. Steven Mock volunteered his stats course for the Virtual Desktop initiative.
Action: Terry will convey Steven's offer to this initiative and work on getting this in place for the fall term.
Next Meeting – TBD.