1: Membership, Election, Tenure

1.1: Membership of ITEC shall consist of seven elected Faculty members, the Dean of the Faculty, the College Librarian, the Director of Information Technology (non-voting), the Director of Academic Computing (non-voting), and two students.

1.2: Faculty membership of ITEC shall consist of: two Faculty members from the Arts and Humanities division; two Faculty members from the Social Science division; two Faculty member from the Science division; and one at-large faculty member.

1.3: Faculty members of ITEC shall serve for a term of 3 years with two or three members elected each year.

2: Jurisdiction, Obligations, Procedures

2.1: It shall be the responsibility of ITEC to determine and articulate faculty priorities related to information technology in the context of teaching and learning. In particular:

2.1.a: ITEC will determine faculty priorities as they relate to technology support for students and faculty in the context of teaching and learning, including matters related to classroom support and support for faculty and student research.

2.1.b: ITEC will articulate faculty priorities as they relate to teaching and learning, and working with appropriate Computing Center and other administrative staff by:

2.1.b.i: Developing plans and budgets to implement those priorities, and establish benchmarks and strategies to monitor progress on these plans; and

2.1.b.ii: Reporting to the full faculty and to relevant administrative staff progress in meeting faculty priorities as related to teaching and learning.

2.2: It shall be the responsibility of ITEC to determine and articulate faculty priorities as related to strategic and budgetary planning for technology infrastructure, systems, and support that addresses the needs of faculty as well as other members of the Trinity community. Such issues include matters of planning, support and budgeting for network services, ERP systems (PeopleSoft), distributed hardware and software support, and all other shared systems and services delivered to the faculty and other members of the community. In particular:

2.2.a: ITEC shall participate in developing strategic, budgetary, and operational planning for services that affect faculty; and

2.2.b: ITEC shall monitor support and planning for all shared services that affect faculty, and will work with committees and administrative structures to ensure that these systems provide appropriate support for faculty.

2.3: ITEC shall in the course of exercising its responsibilities monitor the broad issues of technology support at Trinity and more generally monitor technology issues as they relate to any aspect of the College’s operation. Within that context, ITEC may:

2.3.a: Request and review information or analyses from relevant college administrative staff to review budget or to monitor performance or end-user experiences;

2.3.b: Request and review information or analyses from relevant faculty committees;

2.3.c: Request and review information or analyses from other educational institutions or organizations, including EDUCAUSE and CLAC;

2.3.d: Engage outside consulting support; and

2.3.e: Receive and review complaints from faculty regarding information technology, and take appropriate action.

2.4: ITEC shall communicate with other faculty committees on issues related to information technology, and in particular apprise and advocate for action from other committees when new technology opportunities emerge.

2.5: ITEC shall provide the faculty in writing its specific priorities relating to both teaching and learning, and to strategic and budgetary planning for infrastructure, systems and support. Such report shall be prepared and distributed at least annually.

(Passed April 7, 1998 ; Amended April 10, 2007 )