Laura Janda
Steve Jarrell
James Lee
Wallace McClendon
Jim Noblitt (Chair) 

Call to Order
Welcome and Introductions
Announcements

John Oberlin, Jeanne Smythe, and Jim Gogan (ITS) on IT new security policies

• In a post-9/11 environment, we expect new information management mandates to come down from various regulatory bodies. Information security policy will evolve over time.
• The bottom line is that if the University fails security audit, auditor now has authority to take away campus budget flexibility (not just for IT).
• Don't know when audit will begin, but we think it may be February.
• Two major policy changes: 1) regular update of ONYEN passwords and 2) new wireless network configuration requirements.
• Passwords will begin expiring January 20 on a staggered schedule, and will expire again every ninety days.
• See the Onyen help pages for details.
• Password policy change will challenge password culture on campus. Industry standards say changing passwords every 90 days is minimum.
• ITS wants to minimize the impact of policy on students, faculty and staff. Will adopt the least onerous standards.
• This policy should be enough to satisfy security concerns for at least several years.
• Question regarding impact on distance ed students. ITS is implementing an online system that will allow users to reset password themselves in case they forget. New tools will allow departmental and other non-ONYEN systems to synchronize with the ONYEN account. Moves us closer to single sign-on.
• Awareness-building continues through a number of strategies (mass mail, personal email, web services interfaces, Gazette, Carolina Technology Consultants, other support groups, etc.).
• Wireless cards and access points must be reconfigured to support the required encryption protocol (WEP).
• Will likely move toward a standards-based wireless security when it becomes available. WEP is short-term solution.

Exemplars - Show and tell

Wallace McClendon, Health Sciences Library

Topic: Institutional Digital Repositories
Website: See Powerpoint presentation

• Current journal system is not sustainable, and no longer just an issue that impact libraries.
• Alternative non-profit models are emerging, but will tenure and promotion system adapt?
• Examples: DSpace, Biomed Central, Public Library of Science, Budapest Open Access Initiative, E-Prints, Open Archives Initiative
• Math, Physics, Molecular Biology are early adopters because research tends to be more timely.

Discussion

• Peer review must occur across institutions, convincing younger faculty members is tough.
• Primary journals are often an arm of the discipline's professional organization.
• Could simply moving away from print materials cut costs enough?

Suggestions for Next Semester's Agenda [circulated separately]

• External Grants: Short-term devices, such as foundation funding, to
  maintain faculty participation in innovation and implementation.
• Assessment: A discipline based description of the range of uses of IT
  on this campus, with particular attention to locating interesting and
  instructive exemplars.
• Guidelines & Resources: The need to document optimal application of
  existing campus resources for particular educational content. (Finding
  mechanisms for addressing academic concerns is likely to involve a
  review of central and distributed IT services.)
  
• Representation: Ways in which faculty can be involved in policy-making
  affecting educational IT. (At issue are mechanisms for informed review
  of tenure and promotion documents in digital format, initiatives
  concerning resource allocation for creating instructional materials, and
  hiring that affects the IT learning environment, such as the offices of
  CIO or University Counsel.)
• Tenure and promotion

Discussion continued on FITAC priorities for this semester. Suggestions made during discussion:

• FITAC should weigh in on academic plan. It was suggested that FITAC agree on some metrics and argue for them in the new plan. Has to happen soon, as plan will be going to Faculty Council soon.
• Provost's IT Advisory Council has never been convened. Steve Jarrell says it may be better to convene it under new CIO. CIO search committee names have been proposed. Faculty needs to have voice with Administration.
• Use of technology can not be presented as "technology for technology's sake".
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Agenda: TBA