Date: Tue, 11 Mar 1997 16:46:48 -0500 (EST)
Subject: Report of Subcommittee on Future Needs

0:  The "Unmet Needs" subcommittee met on 1-13-97 with
D. Chesley, E. Cutting, B. DeLong, B. McCandless & N. Sims in
attendance.

1:  The consensus of the subcommittee is that campus planning for 
academic computing, eg. technology applied to the educational 
missions of the institution, was not given adequate attention in
the first round of strategic planning; as a result the strategic
planning document accepted by the Faculty Senate last fall does
not benefit from departmental planning and input in this area.

2:  The consensus of the subcommittee is that while some units have
(as a result of unit initiative) intergrated technology into their unit
stratigic planning, most units have failed to do so.

3:  The consensus of the subcommittee is that the subcommittee is 
simply unable to legitimatly identify all campus unmet needs due to
the lack of relevant stragic planning.  

4:  The consensus of the subcommittee is that there is a need to set
campus-wide IT priorities and to learn what needs to be done.

5:  The subcommittee discussed, but did not reach closure on the issue
of how to motivate departments (and faculty members therein) to use IT
so as to facilitate and improve instruction.

6:  The subcommittee discussed, but did not reach closure on the issue
of an academic "home" for Instructional Technology.  One point of the
discussion revolved around the relative merit of concentrating the efforts
in one unit (and determing which unit it should be) versus a patch-work
approach of experimentation.

7:  Summary:  The subcommittee recommends that the FSUCC/ECC develop and 
present a motion to be subsequently endorsed by the Faculty Senate which
will direct all academic departments to engage in a planning activity 
aimed specifically at the issues of how the networked campus environment
can facilitate an improved educational environment and how the department
might use IT to enhance various aspects of its educational mission.