Academic Computing and Electronic Communications Meeting Minutes


Meeting Details:

Fiscal Year: FY2024
Date:
Time: 11:00 a.m.
Location: Zoom
Minutes Recorded By: Caty Movich
Minutes Approved On:

Attendance

Attending Members

  • David Rahn
  • Arvind Tripathi
  • Gwen Geiger Wolfe
  • Jila Niknejad
  • Aaron Howard
  • Joseph Chapes
  • Hara Madhav Talasila

Other Attendees

  • Caty Movich

New Business

  1. Introductions
    1. The committee chair and members introduced themselves.
  2. Review of charges and how the committee will address them
    1. The chair summarized the purpose of the committee as providing a voice to Governance within the realm of KU IT and information security. The committee can voice concerns or recognition within this realm.
    2. Standing Charge #1: The committee will invite Ed Hudson to speak about developments and IT’s strategic plan, probably around mid-October.
    3. Specific Charge #1: Tom Roderick will likely be invited as the second guest, to speak about the structure for reviewing new IT projects. That structure currently doesn’t necessarily include Governance and it is important for university users to have representation in some way.
    4. Specific Charge #2: This is complicated, and the committee will continue the discussion from last year. We will invite Pam Burkhead, among others, to speak about any developments.
    5. Specific Charge #3: We can work on combining policy elements to create unified guidelines and regulations on student intellectual resources. We will invite people to speak about progress with this so that we can ask questions and voice concerns.
      1. Online courses and content ownership will be another source for discussion, especially as more programs move online.
  3. Discussion
    1. What types of confidential information are included in Specific Charge #2?
      1. There currently is no universal software or procedure for transmitting and completing confidential documents. Ed Hudson can hopefully provide some high-level insight into this so that we can narrow down our goals and identify problem-areas.
    2. Joseph Chapes has had some discussion with Gina Wyant, and one of their questions is how much anonymization do these student artifacts need to have? It’s a time-consuming process.
    3. It’ll be important for speakers/guests to re-introduce and describe these topics for new committee members.

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