DUTIES: 1. Actively participate in forming an engaging, proactive information technology vision for the University of Alabama. 2. Facilitate communication to/from faculty, staff, students, and other IT Governance committees and OIT on information technology issues. 3. Provide feedback and input on information technology initiatives on campus. 4. Study, review, and recommend to the Provost/Executive Vice President and the Vice Provost for Information Technology policies and implementation plans related to information technology on the campus with particular attention given to the instructional and research needs of faculty, staff, and students.
COMPOSITION: The committee shall consist of twenty voting members. Membership will include nine faculty members, five professional staff members, three students (2 undergraduate, 1 graduate) from diverse academic divisions, a Faculty Senate representative, a Professional Staff Assembly representative, and an OCT Staff Assembly representative. The Provost/Executive Vice President shall appoint one department chair as a committee member. One representative from the Office of the Vice Provost for Information Technology will serve in an ex-officio, non-voting role. The chairperson of the committee shall be a faculty member.
REPORTING CHANNEL: Vice Provost for Information Technology
Membership:
Heath Turner, Chair – Professor, Chemical & Biological Engineering 2021
John Burgess – Assistant Professor, Library and Information Studies 2021
Kate Matheny – Reference Coordinator, University Libraries 2023
Erin O’Rourke – Associate Professor of Spanish Linguistics 2023
Nathan Loewen – Assistant Professor, Religious Studies 2023
Michael Koontz – Instructor, English 2023
Tracie Sellers – Manager for Technology Services, College of Education 2023
Curt Ward – Associate Director, Course Materials and Tradebooks 2023
Marco Bonizzoni – Associate Professor, Chemistry and Biochemistry 2021
Lacee Nisbett – eLearning and HMS Administrator 2023
Christopher Davis – Associate Director, Supply Store Bryant Dr 2021
Cassandra Ford – Nursing 2021
Jennifer Roth-Burnette – Director of Academic Support, Capstone Center for Student Success 2023
Laura Gentry – Assistant Professor, University Libraries 2023
Undergraduate Student Representatives
Graduate Student Representative
Genoah Collins
Faculty Senate Representative
Greg Cottrell – MIS, Business
Professional Staff Assembly Representative
Jake Schwartz
OCT Staff Assembly Representative
Clo Patton – Human Environmental Sciences
Ex Officio Members
Ruth Pionke – Senior Information Officer for A&S
Kenneth Foshee – University Registrar
Ivon Foster-McGowan – OIT Instructional Technology
Milo Crabtree, Procurement Services
Joseph Messina – Dean, Arts and Science