UNIVERSITY OF NORTH TEXAS
INFORMATION RESOURCES COUNCIL
December 16, 2003
VOTING MEMBERS PRESENT: PHILLIP TURNER, Chair, CLAUDIA LYNCH (for ELIZABETH HINKLE-TURNER), COY HOGGARD (for JONEEL HARRIS), DON GROSE, MIKE SANDERS (for JOHN PRICE), JENNY JOPLING, JUDITH ADKISON, JIM CURRY, RAMU MUTHIAH, KATHY SWIGGER, BRUCE HUNTER, JON NELSON, MAX KAZEMZADEH
NON-VOTING MEMBERS PRESENT: JOE ADAMO, MAURICE LEATHERBURY, PATRICK PLUSCHT, SUE ELLEN RICHEY (Recording Secretary)
MEMBERS ABSENT: RICHARD HARRIS, CHRISTY CRUTSINGER, CENGIZ CAPAN, LOU ANN BRADLEY, SCOTT KREJCI, CHUCK FULLER, ABRAHAM JOHN, KENN MOFFITT, DONNA ASHER, ROBERT NIMOCKS, DOUG MAINS, ARMIN MIKLER, BOBBY CARTER
GUESTS: JENNIFER LAFLEUR
A motion was made by Judith Adkison to approve the minutes of the November 18, 2003, meeting; seconded by Don Grose and the minutes were approved as submitted.
The Chair reported that the President’s Staff met and accepted the Network Connections policy with Richard Rafes' comment that he would have a chance to review it again in the normal policy update process. Maurice Leatherbury will begin the process of officially submitting the policy for approval by the Board of Regents.
The proposed GW Group E-mail guidelines update received quite a bit of discussion (as usual) and was tabled until the next President's Staff meeting. VPs were asked to submit email comments and Richard Harris was asked if a copy of the guidelines could pop up prior to sending a group message, etc. This is not technically feasible, but the message could be checked for a key phrase indicating compliance with the guidelines. Maurice Leatherbury added that the group message could include a statement saying that it conforms to the guidelines.
Maurice Leatherbury reported that the Distributed Computing Support Management Team meets regularly, but he had nothing to report that would be of concern to this council.
There was no report from the Instruction Planning Group.
Maurice Leatherbury reported that the Communications Planning Group met and discussed connectivity issues associated with the Library Annex.
Coy Hoggard reported for the EIS Planning Group that the Human Resources module is live and in production as of Monday, Dec. 15th. The January paychecks will be produced using the new system. He stated that detail accounting transaction reports are being worked on and they will be available after the holidays. Pilot groups will begin using the Purchasing system towards the end of January or early in February and everything is going reasonably well with those plans.
There was no report from the Research Planning Group or the Standards and Policy Planning Group.
Claudia Lynch reported for the Student Computing Planning Group that the time for students to complete the student computing survey has been extended through January 18th to give students another chance after the holidays to participate in the survey. So far they have received 1000 responses, which is short of their goal of 3000.
Patrick Pluscht reported for the Distributed Learning Team that they have met regularly, but they have nothing to bring before the council at this time. He reported that the Center for Distributed Learning is planning a virtual ribbon cutting to roll out the new e-campus website. The Chair added that 76% of the distance education course sections for Spring 2004 are now included on the website.
Maurice Leatherbury reported that the state-wide optical network group met early in December. The Univ. of Texas system has released an RFP for fiber, responses to which are now being evaluated. Nominations have been made for offices in the organization; elections will be held in late January and Maurice has been nominated for Secretary. UNT will connect to this system on the same gigapop that is currently used for Internet2.
There being no further business, the meeting was adjourned at 2:25 p.m.