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From: kenneth.lord@qc.cuny.edu Date: March 28, 2012 11:34:03 AM EDT To: faculty@cs.qc.edu, adjunct@cs.qc.edu Cc: socrates@lists.qc.cuny.edu Subject: [Socrates] Fw: Plenary April 17 -- IT and academic needs

In addition to the items Sandi mentions, I have heard that the IT Steering Committee wants to disallow ALL forwarding of email. It's hard to know what they are thinking because they keep no minutes and allow no public notes to be distributed (though some sneak out). There is no excuse for that in a committee that makes such large-scale decisions.

Ken

======================================= Dr. Kenneth Lord Assistant to the Provost for Educational Technology (www.qc.cuny.edu/edtech) Chair, Undergraduate Curriculum Committee Lecturer, Computer Science Queens College, CUNY

----- Forwarded by Kenneth Lord/CSCI/Faculty/Queens College on 03/28/2012 11:31 AM ----- Sandi Cooper <Sandi.Cooper@csi.cuny.edu> Sent by: CUNY UFS Announcement-only list <UFS-NEWS@LISTSERV.CUNY.EDU> 03/28/2012 11:24 AM Please respond to Sandi Cooper <Sandi.Cooper@csi.cuny.edu>

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Dear Colleagues,

This communication is to URGE you to communicate to ALL you colleagues, besides UFS senators, who are concerned with centralized IT decisions as these impact academic needs -- teaching AND research.

I wish to insure that Brian Cohen, who is in charge of CUNY's IT offices and the IT committee (composed to technical personnel from the colleges) -- OUR GUEST AT THE PLENARY -- hears directly from faculty what their problems might be.

If you cannot come (Tuesday evening, April 17, 6:30 pm, Graduate School, 9th floor meeting rooms) you are invited to e mail me with issues that you wish raised.

Issues which I have raised with Brian Cohen so far include decisions on e-portfolios (which we consider a faculty concern); whether or not retirees can still get their college e mail; a system of public communication to all faculty of IT decisions (Cohen's office is planning a new letter) and a regular system of minutes of the IT meetings.

Issues about the new Blackboard upgrade and CUNYFirst continue to arise and Brian will address these.

I need to hear from people who are concerned both with teaching and their own research needs.

Sandi

Sandi E. Cooper, Chair University Faculty Senate -- CUNY 535 E 80 Street New York, N Y 10075 212 794 5538

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