UNIVERSITY OF NORTH TEXAS
INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY COUNCIL
Tuesday, December 2, 2008
VOTING MEMBERS PRESENT: WARREN BURGGREN, CHAIR, TIM CHRISTIAN, ELIZABETH HINKLE-TURNER, JOHN HOOPER, JIM BYFORD, , BILL JONES, PATRICK PLUSCHT, WILL SENN, WIL CLARK (for JOHN PRICE), DON GROSE, CENGIZ CAPAN, JON NELSON, YUNFEI DU, BRUCE HUNTER, RAMU MUTHIAH, JOEY SAXON, JOEL ARREDONDO, KELLY DONAHUE-WALLACE, KISEOL YANG, KEVIN EADES, WILLIAM MOEN, JON NELSON, AND LYNN MCCREARY (for TROY JOHNSON)
NON-VOTING MEMBERS PRESENT: JOE ADAMO, MAURICE LEATHERBURY, PHILIP BACZEWSKI, JACKIE THAMES, CHARLOTTE RUSSELL, AND SUSAN RICHROATH (for SUE ELLEN RICHEY)
MEMBERS ABSENT: JUDITH ADKISON, LOU ANN BRADLEY, JIM CURRY, NOREEN GOGGIN, MELISSA JACKSON, ABRAHAM JOHN, AND FRANCES MAY
The Chair, Warren Burggren, asked new members to introduce themselves (Donahue-Wallace, Moen, Yang and Eades). Following that, the minutes of the previous ITC meeting, October 21, 2008, were approved with no recommended corrections.
Maurice Leatherbury provided a Power Point presentation on IT at UNT. In summary, he explained that at the System level, there is no separate IT support unit. The System level is supported by ABN network. Maurice is the IRM (Information Resource Manager) for the UNT system per DIR and Texas Government Code. The System is currently issuing RFP’s to review how IT fits into the UNT System. UNTHSC and UNT Dallas currently work under an agreement with Denton UNT for their services with the System. The Board and Chancellor are reviewing the process to determine if there should be separate IT units. Maurice is the ITCHE member for UNT which advises the Department of Information Resources on Higher Education regarding IT related issues. There have been consolidation studies performed in previous years. UNT has a "federated" model of computing support with CITC providing central support and IRC providing coordination of the IT support. Each college and school, except one, has an IT support group and most have an IT committee and student labs. Maurice distributed the CITC organizational chart. There was discussion to determine any IT overlap of ITC and the Distributed Computing Support Management Team. The ITC did not feel the two groups overlapped. It was mentioned that video conferencing is a shared IT function.
John Hooper noted that Campus Solutions software will not be updated until January 2009 so it may be the latter part of next year when the upgrade is available for UNT.
Elizabeth Hinke-Turner provided a Power Point presentation on the timeline of the UNT student migration from Eaglemail to the Microsoft-based EagleConnect™ email system. The project started in Spring 2007. In November 2008, emails were generated to inform the students. UNT expects to launch EagleConnect™ on February 3, 2009 and shut down the current Eaglemail system on May 18, 2009. A comment was made about the challenges of the May date to shut down the system due to posting of grades. Several dates were reviewed and the May date was determined the least challenging. The students will continue receiving email but lose access to their Eaglemail files if they do not switch by the May date. There was discussion about obtaining student email addresses through http://info.unt.edu or distributing email through the bulk mail system.
Patrick Pluscht made a motion to nominate Jane Himmel, Associate Director of the Center for Learning Enhancement, Assessment, and Redesign, to chair the Learning Enhancement Planning Group. Cengiz Capan seconded the motion. The motion was passed by all members present.
There was discussion about the reporting method of standing committees. It was decided to have standing committees report on an as-needed basis. An agenda item at the beginning of each year will include a discussion on charges for the standing committees.
The next ITC meeting will be January 20, 2009.
There being no further business, the meeting was adjourned at 3:15 pm.