McRobbie overhauls IT committees

By Karen Adams

The Indiana University Office of the Vice President for Information Technology has carried out a major overhaul of the university's information technology committees.

Michael McRobbie, vice president for information technology, has established a new university-wide committee structure that will provide a unified and uniform way of involving faculty, staff and students from all eight campuses in major policy decisions affecting the development of information technology (IT) at IU.

The central advisory committee in this new structure is the University Information Technology Committee (UITC), chaired by J. Michael Dunn, Oscar Ewing Professor of philosophy and professor of computer science at IUB.

Reporting to the UITC are four specialist taskforces: the Teaching and Learning Information Technologies Taskforce chaired by Jon Barwise, College Professor of mathematics, computer science and philosophy at IUB; the Telecommunications Taskforce, chaired by Russell Eberhart, professor of engineering at IUPUI; the University Information Systems Taskforce, chaired by James Perin, assistant vice president for finance; and the Research and Academic Computing Taskforce, chaired by Dennis Gannon, professor of computer science at IUB. The Computer Center Directors Committee (CCD) which represents the IT organizations on the regional campuses also reports to the UITC.

To ensure campus-specific focus in the new structure, two additional committees have been formed: the Bloomington Campus Information Technology Council and the IUPUI Information Technology Council.

The first task of these new committees will be the preparation of the University Information Technology Strategic Plan, to be presented by McRobbie to IU President Myles Brand in April. A major aim of this plan will be to develop a strategy to achieve the president's goal of making IU a leader in the use and application of information technology in absolute terms.

For further details: