UTEP Faculty Senate IT Committee Start Page

This web page also provides links to a directory for members to use via MySpace login: Click here to bring up a login prompt, which after authentication should bring you to the uploads directory. This page should open in a separate window.

Purpose of this page: This page is for UTEP Faculty Senate IT committee agendas, minutes, and documents or presentations, and may be easily linked-to from within the UTEP MySpace environment. It is located at: https://mspace.utep.edu/FSIT (caps are necessary in FSIT).

Please participate in the Spring 2007 Faculty survey of IT Concerns. You will be given a list of concerns developed by messages to the TIMS, and you will be asked to help identify priorities for these concerns. This is an ongoing process, but your contribution helps a great deal. Click here to take survey. After completing the survey you will be returned to this page.

NEWS FOR FACULTY (February 2007): There is currently a discussion taking place about developing a "faculty research" or "faculty activities" database. Here is a link to the one found at UT Panam. This type of database might simplify contacts and provide a number of tools for collaboration among faculty in grants and other projects. UT Panam's: http://rsp.utpa.edu/browseprofiles.php?view=1

2006-2007 FSIT Minutes, and minutes archive (Previous year's minutes copied and converted to PDF from the prior FSIT WebCT location)

• February 22, 2007 draft minutes in Word RTF format or HTML format. .

• Draft report to the Faculty Senate by Brian Giza representing the FSIT committee in Word RTF format or HTML format. Prepared for the February 13, 2007 Faculty Senate Meeting.

• 2007 January 25 FSIT committee minutes, HTML format. These are pending approval by members at the next, February 22, 2007, scheduled meeting.

• 2007 January 25 FSIT committee spreadsheet of IT concerns, Excel format version 2. These now include a set of groupings and rough categories, and are to be used as the basis of discussion in interactions among stakeholders (as per a vote at the Jan 25, 2007 meeting), February 22, 2007, scheduled meeting. thanks go to subcommittee members Virgilio Gonzalez, Paulo Pinheiro da Silva, and Frank Poblano for their work in preparing this version of the concerns spreadsheet. A more limited pdf format version that includes only the concerns and department columns is here.

• 2007 January 25 FSIT committee concerns in Excel format, . These are pending approval by members at the next, February 22, 2007, scheduled meeting.

• 2006 December 14 FSIT committee minutes, HTML format.

• 2006 December 14 FSIT committee minutes, Word RTF format These are pending approval by members at the next, January 25, 2007, scheduled meeting.

• fsit-sort-by-category.xls TIMS Faculty IT concerns list as compiled for the December 14, 2006 meeting, Excel format - forwarded from Maria Barraza-Rios.

• 2006 November 2 FSIT committee agenda and brief outcomes, Word Doc format

• 2006 November 2 FSIT committee ppt on Mailmine issues, PPT format (New as of Dec 14, 2006. Stay tuned, as this PPT this will be upgraded with new information and screen-caps showing how to get Mailmine going - including how to set the protocol to MAPI iunstead of POP3 - B. H. Giza)

• 2006 October 24 FSIT committee informal notes by Maria Barraza HTML format

• 2006 August 8 FSIT committee notes, PDF format

• 2006 April 1 FSIT committee minutes, PDF format

• 2006 January 31 FSIT committee minutes, PDF format

• 2005 April 8 FSIT committee minutes, PDF format

Key Faculty Senate Information Technology Documents

• FSIT committee Rules as provided in the Faculty senate by-laws, PDF format

Bulletin board archive (copied and converted to text from the FSIT WebCT location)

• 2005-2006 April 8 FSIT bulletin board posts, text format

Meeting times poll

• Responses to the October 5, 2006 request for meeting times preferences, text format (this document will change as it is updated).

Password complexity guidelines message

• Password Complexity suggestions - message from Dir. of IT, October 5, 2006.

Membership, Spring 2007:

Brian Giza, Chair, (Education); Virgilio Gonzalez, Vice-chair, (Engineering); Holly Denney (Registrar); Mary Duffy, (Library); Helen Foster, (at large); Pierce, Kenneth, (IT); Frank Poblano, (IT); Jack Vaughn, (COBA); Marian Manciu (Physics); Susan Leech (Health Science), Maria Ivette Barraza-Rios (TIMS), Paulo Pinheiro da Silva, (Computer Science); Shepherd, Jeffrey P (Liberal Arts); Wei, Zhubao (Business, Economics).