Session Title:
Instructional Technology Governance:
Are You Inside or Outside of the Box?

Session Description: During the 2001-2002 academic year, the University of California Santa Cruz completed a campus-wide review of Instructional Technology.
The Instructional Technology Group (ITG) was formed as a task group to the Information Technology Committee (ITC) with the following charge:
  1. Identify and assess the set of technology-based services presently offered to instructors.
  2. Identify problems encountered by faculty, and assess instructional needs for technology support.
  3. Examine best practices at other institutions.
  4. Include consideration of classroom and lab requirements as part of an overall plan.
  5. Propose a plan that includes organizational structure, funding, and guiding principles that will allow UCSC to achieve the vision, and to implement a working faculty support model.

ITG began its work in the latter part of the fall quarter, 2001. Five task forces were formed dealing with faculty needs for Instructional Technology: Student Needs, Assessment of Service Providers, Best Practices, and Costs of Instructional Technology. Each of these task forces completed phase one (data collection) during winter quarter, 2002, and submitted reports during the first half of spring quarter, 2002. A final report was completed July 2002.

Bruce Horn and Henry Burnett will describe the process, results and implications of the campus-wide Instructional Technology Review at UC Santa Cruz.