ANNUAL REPORT OF THE FACULTY COMPUTER COMMITTEE

DATE: July 6, 1983
TO: Faculty Senate
FROM: : Richard L. Kerns, Chair

Membership:

Ex officio: Chancellor John Howell
Vice Chancellor Volpe (represented by Keats Sparrow)
Acting Vice Chancellor Doug Moore
Caroline Ayers, Chair of the Faculty

Richard Athey, Medicine 1985
Edwin Griffith, Pol. Sci. 1983
Otto Henry, Music 1985
James Hix, Chemistry 1985
James Joyce, Physics 1984
Richard Kerns, Decision Sciences 1984
Grant Somes, Allied Health 1983
James Wirth, Mathematics = =—« 1983
John Warren, English 1984

Carole Wilson, Student

Committee meetings (members absent):

September 21, 1982 Howell, Moore, Ayers, Hix

October 21 Howell, Moore, Ayers, Henry, Hix

February 1, 1983 Howell, Moore, Ayers, Henry

March 15 Howell, Moore, Ayers, Athey, Henry

. . Wilson: :

April 26 Howell, Moore, Ayers, Henry, Warren,
Wilson

Reports to Faculty Senate:

None

Instructions from Faculty Senate:

None

. Committee organization, subcommittees, activities:

The Faculty Computer Committee functions as a body to make recommenda-
tions concerning academic computing to (1) the Faculty Senate, (2)
Computing and Information Systems, and (3) the Information Systems
Advisory Committee.

On October 11, 1982, the Chair formed the Computer Resource Control
Subcommittee to investigate the means and policies for allocating
scarce central computer resources.

Committee accomplishments and recommendations outside the Faculty

 
XI.

Senate:

The Computer Resource Control Subcommmittee worked with CIS to begin
the software development and implementation necessary to provide
accounting data for B6800 computer use so that the committee can
intelligently discuss the allocation of resources.

The question of approved grants allocating sufficient funds to
compensate CIS for support services was raised. A recommendation to
Grants and Projects was made to provide CIS a list of those grants
containing funds for computer support which CIS could use when
assigning account codes.

Senate resolutions originating with the committee:
None
Business to be carried over to next year:

Assuming the change budget contains money for academic computing, the
committee will be involved in decisions of how to use this money.

Continuing work on computer resource control must be done.
Ideas such as requiring students to acquire computers will be explored.
Committee evaluation:

A. Structure - the structure of the committee is adequate and
functional.

B. Duties - duties are not always certain in the light of two other
computer committees within the School of Medicine which
seem to overlap to some extent.

C. Functions - the committee is frequently asked to undertake planning
activity which is better suited to an administrative
unit. The expansion in CIS personnel for academic
computing may alleviate some of this problem.

D. Personnel ~ With two resignations at the end of the academic year,
the committee is left with only three current members
who regularly attend meetings. New members should be
willing to serve in a meaningful way. There are gaps
in the committee members' familiarity in the computer
needs of various parts of the University. The lack of
a representation of the largest user of University
central computer resources, Mathematics, for the next
year is seen as a great deficiency.

Suggestions for improving commitee effectiveness:

None