Friday, October 5, 2007
Agenda
- Approval of minutes from September 6, 2007
- Overview of ITS
Presentation (Slides 46-84) [PDF]- Angela Bradley, Director of Networks & Communications
- Rich Jones, Director of Systems & Operations
- Diane Beckman, Director of University Information Systems
- Rhonda Fiscus, Director of Administrative Services
- Tour of Durham data center and telecommunications node room
- Discussion of whether additional information about ITS would be helpful at this time
- Good of the order
Attendance
- Attendees included
- Phil Spike (chair), Roger Baer, Pam Elliott Cain, Kathy Jones, Floyd Davenport, Jason Carroll, Ian Guffy, Julie Blanchong (for Steven Jungst), Steve Hernstadt, James Alleman, David Hopper, Fred Goulden (for Karen Larson), Kevin Scheibe (for Tony Townsend and Sree Nilakanta) and Jim Davis
- Absent members
- Chris McCoy, Ann Thompson, and Theresa Windus
- Visitors in attendance were
- David Popelka, Diane Beckman, Rhonda Fiscus, Angela Bradley, Cheryl Langston, Mike Bowman, Rich Jones, Michelle Stotts, and Jim Twetten
Minutes
Friday, October 5, 2007
Minutes from September 6, 2007 meeting were approved. It was suggested to have the agenda and minutes listed on the website without having to print all minutes and agendas.
IT Services Directors continued presentations regarding an overview of services. Overviews of four ITS divisions were presented by its Directors: Angela Bradley (Networks & Communications), Rich Jones (Systems & Operations), Diane Beckman (University Information Systems), and Rhonda Fiscus (Administrative Services). Slides from the presentation will be posted on the committee web site. Presentation (Slides 46-84) [PDF]
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Discussion was held to see if additional information about ITS would be helpful at this time.
It seems there are similar activities that occur within the colleges and the boundary between ITS and the college IT activities is somewhat blurred. A question was asked whether this committee needs to consider college IT activities. Another question was also asked about other potential mergers. The budget of ITS is the core of this group, but considering the makeup of this group, these bigger picture items can be discussed within this group in the future.
The ITS strategic plan is pretty general and more specifics may be helpful as well as how it affects budgeting. Davis will provide more information about the projects outlined in the ITS strategic plan at a later meeting.
The next meeting could describe the RMM model as well as the new model affecting IT. Ellen Rasmussen may be available next month to present an overview to this group.
E-learning or distance education is an effort distributed across campus. Efforts are under way to coordinate that more. IT Services impact is with the learning management systems. Technology in Teaching and Learning will be a new group led by Jim Davis and Corly Brooke.
A tour of the Durham data center and telecommunications node room was held.
