Minutes Meeting of the Faculty Senate Committee for Instructional/Information Technology (IT)

May 19, 2006

The dialogue was initiated by those present: Xue-Ming Bao, John Collins (Chair), Anne Mullen-Hohl, Tom Marlowe, Joseph Martinelli, and Richard Stern (new).

Others on the committee with schedule conflicts: Simone James Alexander, Ben Beitin (new), Chuck Carter, William Haney, Susan Hart, Christine Krus, Arline Lowe, David Mest, Manfred Minimair, Amy Silvestri, George Turner and Deborah Ward. DoIT Senior Faculty Fellow: Bert Wachsmuth.

Members on sabbatical: Athar Murtuza, and Nathaniel Knight.

The following topics were discussed:

 Old Business o New Faculty Senate in place; on-going additions with each college/school’s elections, through May 2006.

 New Business o Election of Chair for AY 2006-2007 – will solicit nominations electronically; Chair must be a Faculty Senator; Co-Chair arrangements possible; need to elect Chair or Co-Chairs, ASAP o Meeting Schedule . Third week of September for first meeting . Create fall meeting schedule at first meeting o AY 2006-2007 Agenda (continue and refine as needed): . SCT Banner – on-going activities and faculty involvement needed; one recommendation was made on admissions module to add a Contact/Person button, if not already envisioned. . Generic Faculty Pages – Faculty Profiles – a semester- long project designed to reduce duplication of effort; need to revisit categories of scholarship to be more inclusive of the SHU faculty’s work (REFWORKS was cited); extends to faculty service as well. . Classroom control of Internet Access – this year’s pilots seemed to work well; we will continue to assist all faculty that wish to have classroom control of Internet access. . Research Computing – project has been sponsored by the TLTR and requires continued faculty input. . Faculty survey on IT: Available on-line during the summer and early fall: http://tltc.shu.edu:80/servlets/asset.AssetSurvey?surveyid=1629 Password is: survey A paper-version will also be distributed in early fall. . TLTC efforts for multi-section course workshops – lots of work still needed with developing Course Management System modules that can be used across common courses, e.g. statistics; requires resources to become a reality – recommend working with DoIT to get into CDI – 10/11; would be replicable for multiple courses, especially University Core Curriculum initiatives. . Software imaging – need to continue dialogue to preclude any surprises . Course Evaluation Form – will be worked with the University Assessment Committee, faculty development initiatives and the IT Committee. o Several committee members recommended that we have co- membership on two committees: 1. University Assessment Committee and IT Committee; 2. Academic Facilities and IT Committee. o Motion was made, seconded and unanimously passed to thank the Chair, John Collins for his work over this academic year – which was automatically returned, thanking the committee for their support.

Our meeting was adjourned at 1:55pm. The next Faculty Senate IT Committee will meet in the third week of September 2006.