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Information Technology Planning Committee
An IT Planning Committee for CALS was charged to:
- Briefly review the current resources, their effectiveness,
adequacy, and co-ordination;
- Develop a vision of the future IT needs of CALS to serve our
teaching, research, development, administrative and outreach needs;
- Advise the Dean of the human and technological infrastructural investment
needed over the next 5 years to achieve that vision;
- Recommend an appropriate structure for the management and co-ordination
of IT activity;
- Draft a staged implementation plan to move us toward the vision.
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A final draft of recommendations from this committee dated 5/15/2001 addressed
these charges and recommended specific organizational, training, and
resource-allocation action steps. The Dean's Office has responded by creating
the CALS Information Technology Office as a new organizational unit within
the Dean's Office.
The new IT office will be considering these recommendations and directing
resources toward meeting many of the goals and objectives specified in
the plan. Among them:
1. Create a permanent IT committee
2. Every faculty and staff person, including those at adjoining off-site
facilities, should have access to a 3-year-old or less computer with a 10
megabit network connection, with a goal of 100 megabit, in their office
3. The college should support the following IT personnel
a. CALS/CIT (50%/50%) position
b. CALS IT support persons - 4 recommended
c. Administrative/IT support persons - % of an administrative position
in each department
4. Recommendations were made for advanced training for IT
personnel and individuals to become a resource for particular software. IT
competencies should be incorporated into faculty and staff yearly
evaluations and new hires
5. A CALS web server should be provided for CALS-specific applications