FUNCTION: To recommend to the president, and to the chief information officer, and to the Faculty Council changes in policies regarding information technology; to consult with and advise the chief information officer about policies and procedures pertaining to information technology at the University.
COMPOSITION: Fifteen voting members of the General Faculty, thirteen of which will serve three-year staggered terms. In addition, every year the Chair of the Faculty Council shall appoint two voting faculty members of the Faculty Council for one-year terms. Eight of the faculty members will be from college/school faculty information technology (IT) committees and will rotate among the colleges and schools that have faculty IT committees. As an IT faculty term expires, the deans of colleges/schools with faculty IT committees will send the name of a faculty member of the IT committee to the Committee on Committees. The remaining five faculty members will be selected through the regular procedures of the Committee on Committees (see HOP 2-1040 section B). The Committee on Committees will submit all faculty recommendations/nominations, including the IT panel, to the president for appointment. There will be four staff members appointed for two-year staggered terms. At least two of the staff member representatives shall not be employed in IT-related areas. The President shall appoint three student members for one-year terms, one from each panel of names submitted by Student Government, the Senate of College Councils, and the Graduate Student Assembly. Each year, the committee shall elect its own Chair and Vice Chair who shall be voting faculty members of the committee. The Chief Information Officer and a representative from the Information Technology Research & Educational Technology Committee (R&E) shall serve as ex officio members without vote. A representative from each of the following shall be selected by the President to serve as an administrative advisor without vote: the Faculty Innovation Center (FIC), Financial and Administrative Services, and department chairs.
Note: The Faculty Innovation Center has replaced the Center for Teaching and Learning. A proposal to update the composition will be considered by the Faculty Council in the fall.
(Est. 2005 D 3694; on March 17, 2014, President Powers approved D 10287-10289b with formal notification to UT System.*** See legislation for suggested implementation of staggered terms for eight IT faculty)
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Schedule of Meetings and Posting of Minutes
All meetings will be held in BMC 4.378A - ADV Walsdorf Conference Room on Mondays from 12:00-1:00.
All meetings will be held in BMC 4.378A - ADV Walsdorf Conference Room on Mondays from 12:00-1:00.
September 10- agenda item- Introductions, function overview, Workday, elect vice chair
October 15- agenda item- brainstorming key topics, Blockchain
November 5
December 3 agenda items - Techno-Ethics legal issues and Ethical use of classwork
December 3
January 28
February 11
April 22
2018-2019 Membership
2018-2019 Committee Chair
Angeline Close Scheinbaum, Associate Professor, Advertising and Public Relations
Email: angeline@austin.utexas.edu
Chair Elect
Lizy K. John, Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering
Email: ljohn@ece.utexas.edu
2016-2019
Angeline Close Scheinbaum, Associate Professor, Advertising and Public Relations
2016-2019 College/School IT Committee Reps
Lizy K. John, Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering
Kavita Radhakrishnan, Assistant Professor, Nursing
Varun Rai, Assistant Professor, Mechanical Engineering
Jo Lynn Westbrook, Associate Professor, Information
2017-2020
Lars Hinrichs, Associate Professor, English
Dennis S. Passovoy, Lecturer, Management
2017-2020 College/School IT Committee Reps
Sirkka L. Jarvenpaa, Professor, Information, Risk, and Operations Management
Steven I. Vladeck, Professor, Law
2018-2021
Glenn P. Downing, Assistant Professor of Instruction, Computer Science
Xiaofen Keating. Associate Professor, Curriculum and Instruction
Martin W. Kevorkian, Professor, English
2018-2021 College/School IT Committee Reps
Gordon S. Novak, Professor, Computer Science
Stephen G. Walker, Professor, Mathematics
2018-2019 Faculty Council Representatives
Donald S. Fussell, Professor, Computer Science
Natalie S. Poulos, Assistant Professor of Instruction, Nutritional Sciences
Staff Members
2017-2019
Stephen C. Walker, Senior Software Engineer, ITS Systems
Amber Welch, Head, Technology Enhanced Learning, University of Texas Libraries
2018-2020
Michael S. Abkowitz, Chief Financial Officer - Director of Finance and Operations, Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center
Winlock Brown, JD, Director of CLE Business Operations, Law
Student Members
2018-2019
Haris Rafiq, Senate of College Councils Representative
John P. Reppeto, Student Government Representative
To be determined, Graduate Student Assembly Representative
Administrative Advisers without Vote
2018-2019
Jason Abrevaya, Professor and Department Chair, Department of Economics
Chad J. Fulton, Project Manager, Faculty Innovation Center, Office of Graduate Studies
Mario A. Guerra, Information Technology Research and Educational Technology Committee Representative
Carol Lee, Financial and Administrative Services, ITS (replaced Angela Newell, effective May 1, 2019)
Christopher M. Sedore, Vice President and Chief Information Officer