Information Technology Team

Team Membership

• Thirteen-member team: one Law School representative; one Dental School representative; one library representative; one IDS representative; two students; two administrative or staff representatives; one faculty member selected by the MFA from among its members; and two elected representatives of the McNichols faculty; two representatives ITS staff will be ex officio members of the team
• Reports to Vice President for Business and Finance and Vice President for Academic Affairs

Members

3 faculty representatives 

Nizar Al-Holou, Mechanical Engineering, College of Engineering & Science (term expires 3/2012)

Lori Glenn, Vice Chairperson, Nursing, McAuley School of Nursing, College of Health Professions (term expires 3/2013)

Rick Hill, Mechanical Engineering, College of Engineering & Science (term expires 3/2012) (MFA)

2 administrative or staff representatives

Michael P. Brachulis, Programmer Analyst (term expires 8/2012)

Edward G. Tracy, Associate Vice President, Information Technology Services (term expires 8/2012)

2 ex officio staff representatives of ITS

Ranard Bynum, Manager, ITS Helpdesk (term expires 8/2013)

Martin Frankhouse, Network Manager, Information Technology Services (term expires 8/2013)

1 Library representative

Sara Martin, Associate Dean for Technical Services and Library Systems, McNichols Campus Library (term expires 8/2013)

1 Instructional Design Studio representative

Mike Verdusco, Chairperson, Assistant Director for IDS Business Services and Instructional Designer, Instructional Design Studio (term expires 8/2012)

1 Dental School representative

Dincer Gurun, Restorative Dentistry (term expires 2012)

1 Law School representative

Chris Congdon (term expires 2012)

2 student representatives

Abebusola Bakare (term expires 2012)

TBA (term expires 2013)

2011-12 Charge

• Evaluate all the IT/computer use policies on the IT, Libraries, Law, and Dental web sites to assess consistency; whether they are clear understandable, and make recommendations about missing information in the policies. Review and make recommendation whether the different policies should be linked to each other.
• Propose a university wide standard for classroom clickers.
• Evaluate and recommend process improvements for the audio-visual and classroom support department.  Specifically, indicate if the right mix of technology is available for teaching purposes, if a hybrid (mobile delivery and fix podiums) solution ideal or should UDM move toward all fixed podiums with no classroom delivery or significantly reduced classroom delivery.

Ongoing Charge

• Monitor and provide guidance to the Knowledge Support Group.
• Establish, in consultation with the Vice President for Business and Finance and/or the AVP, goals for the academic year.
• Provide recommendations to Vice President for Business and Finance and/or AVP and the information technology staff of the university about planning for academic technology needs.
• Provide recommendations on technology needs regarding the development of online/hybrid courses/programs and courseware.
• Make recommendations regarding software; web standards; planning for IT infrastructure, and strategic IT planning for the university.
• As requested by the Vice President for Business and Finance and/or AVP, monitor and provide guidance to other IT committees and groups.  The team reserves the right to appoint permanent or case specific liaisons to such committees and groups.
• Provide ongoing reports to and consultation with the Vice President for Business and Finance and/or AVP.
• Keep the university community informed of committee activities by providing summary minutes of meetings and reports to (sharedgovernance(at)udmercy.edu).  Information will be posted to the shared governance website (udmercy.edu/governance). The secretary of the committee is responsible for these postings and for informing Campus Connections of new postings. If there is no secretary identified for the committee, a member should be selected who is responsible for this task

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