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C13 Information Technology Committee

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

Vice Chair and/or Chair Elect
To be determined
Email:

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
Angela M. Newell, Financial and Administrative Services, ITS
Christopher M. Sedore, Vice President and Chief Information Officer

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