UNIVERSITY OF NORTH TEXAS
INFORMATION RESOURCES COUNCIL
Tuesday, July 15, 2008
VOTING MEMBERS PRESENT: PHILIP TURNER, CHAIR, TIM CHRISTIAN, ELIZABETH HINKLE-TURNER, CATHY GONZALEZ (for JOHN HOOPER), JIM BYFORD, LOU ANN BRADLEY, BILL JONES, FRANCES MAY, JANE HIMMEL (for PATRICK PLUSCHT), WILL SENN, WIL CLARK (for JOHN PRICE), MARGARET AMBUEHL (for DONNA KEENER), DON GROSE, JUDITH ADKISON, CENGIZ CAPAN, ZHENG (PHIL) XIANG
NON-VOTING MEMBERS PRESENT: JOE ADAMO, MAURICE LEATHERBURY, PHILIP BACZEWSKI, SEAN-MIKEL FLOWERS, SUE ELLEN RICHEY (Recording Secretary)
MEMBERS ABSENT: JON NELSON, YUNFEI DU, BRUCE HUNTER, GARY MATTHEWS, NOREEN GOGGIN, SCOTT WINDHAM, RAY BANKS, ABRAHAM JOHN, RAMU MUTHIAH
GUESTS: CHARLOTTE RUSSELL
Tim Christian moved that the minutes of the June 17, 2008 meeting be approved; Bill Jones seconded the motion and the minutes were approved as presented.
Philip Baczewski reported for the Distributed Computing Support Management Team (DCSMT) that the committee did not meet on June 20th and their last regularly scheduled meeting would have fallen on July 4th, which was a holiday. They will meet at their regularly scheduled time later in July.
Jane Himmel reported for the Learning Enhancement Planning Group that they have not met since the last IRC meeting. Dr. Turner pointed out that a proposal has been presented to Blackboard for the renewal of Vista and the committee is awaiting a response.
Lou Ann Bradley reported for the Communications Planning Group that the committee has not met since the last IRC meeting.
Cathy Gonzalez reported for the EIS Planning Group that everyone on campus seems to be happy, so the EIS group is happy. All is well.
Tim Christian reported for the Standards & Policy Planning Group that they will be reviewing some changes that have been made to the Project Management Policy.
Elizabeth Hinkle-Turner stated that there was nothing to report from the Student Computing Planning Group.
The Chair asked council members if there was a need to have an August meeting; Will Clark moved that the August meeting be cancelled; Tim Christian seconded and the consensus was not to hold an IRC meeting in August.
Maurice Leatherbury reported that he still has not heard anything about the status of the reorganization proposal, even though Andrew Harris approved it. He said he would check on the status of it.
Jane Himmel commented that over the last two years she has worked with the Libraries to create a new copyright policy that would apply to the use of materials used in on-line courses. That new policy has been posted. The same group that developed that policy will put together a resource web site for faculty and students and will provide links to other appropriate web sites. This is significant because the Teach Act requires that universities have such a policy.
Maurice announced to the Council that Dr. Turner would not be returning as Chair of the Council in FY09, and everyone applauded Dr. Turner’s 12-year tenure as Chair.
There being no further business, the meeting was adjourned.