Meeting Minutes
Members Present: Dora Gicheva, Jing Deng, Jeff Labban, Jeff Whitworth, Kimberly Littlefield, Prashanti Manda, Richard Cox, Yirong Mo, Vickie Carter
Absent: Thomas McCoy
Guests: Susan Letvak, attending for Thomas McCoy
Call to Order
- Roll Call – all members were present except Thomas McCoy.
- IT Governance Website (Jeff W) – Research Cyberinfrastructure Advisory Sub-Committee (uncg.edu)
- The website is live. RCAC minutes are published there.
- The website is live. RCAC minutes are published there.
Old Business
- Research CI Survey Update (Kim L)
- Previous group decided to take back to the units as representatives, a standardized instrument to collect Research CI priorities from our units with the intent to bring all the information together and look for common priorities amongst the different units as a way to prioritize recommendations for Research CI investment.
- Discussed ways to get a broad sampling of information with the units.
- Timing: when to start collecting this information? End of this semester? Fall semester?
- Will have the members complete the survey on behalf of their units.
- Will have the members complete the survey on behalf of their units.
- IT General Controls Audit Update (Jeff W)
- Will be finished with the audit in the next few weeks.
- Will have audit findings:
- Asset Management (ITS) will be one of the findings due to not having a centralized asset management program and a program needs to be developed for it.
- Hope to have findings back in a few weeks and will get the information out to the campus as well as be able to brief the group at the next meeting.
- No actions right now.
New Business
- No new business
- Kim L showed the group the survey and how it works.
- Discussed how to define priorities for future investment potential as well as current priorities.
- How to handle collection from the units as well as if there is low turnout.
- Will reformulate a different strategy in distributing the survey.
- Can ask department chairs to discuss the survey in the faculty meetings, collect the information and send it to their committee representatives.
- Decided to have the survey ready to administer in the fall
- Will be introducing the survey in the ARAC and RAC meetings leading up to administration of the survey.
- Kim L showed the group the survey and how it works.
- Next meeting in the fall.
- No meeting in the summer.
- Will be quarterly, 2 in the fall and 2 in the spring.
Action Items
- No action items