FITAC 2004 The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Faculty IT Advisory Committee Annual Report James S. Noblitt, Chair FITAC 2004
Faculty & IT Support Staff Membership FITAC 2004 Biology, Economics, Music Health Sciences Library English, Nursing Public Health Mathematics, Slavic, Romance Afro-American Studies Academic Affairs Library NEXT OASIS ATN ITS AIS CIT CTL Continuing Education
Support for Innovation Issues FITAC 2004 Limited budgetary resources Uncertain system rewards Need for coordination NEXT
Top Down & Bottom Up Coordination FITAC 2004 NEXT
Underutilized Resources? Implementation FITAC 2004 One of the abuses of power is not to use it. - John Kenneth Galbraith The Anatomy of Power NEXT
Truth & Beauty General Education FITAC 2004 At present we are making do in our half-educated fashion, struggling to hear messages, obviously of great importance, as though listening to a foreign language in which one only knows a few words. - C.P. Snow, The Two Cultures NEXT
The Knowledge Business Scholars & IT NEXT FITAC 2004 Creation Storage Dissemination of Information
The Evolution of Media for Education Medium & Method NEXT FITAC 2004 DIGITALIMAGEPRINTORAL
Learning Environments FITAC 2004 Music Music Mathematics Mathematics Afro-American Studies Afro-American Studies Foreign Languages Foreign Languages First-Year Seminars First-Year Seminars NEXT
Sound files: The right medium for study. Music FITAC 2004 Music 44: Introduction to Country Music in large lecture with online database of words, music bios, pictures (Jocelyn Neal) BACK
Tools for visualization & exploration. Math FITAC 2004 Math 125: View third dimension with Mathematica; Seminar: Fractal geometry of nature (Sue Goodman) Math 10: Self-paced Algebra for on-campus study (Mark McCombs) BACK
Access to primary data for research. Afro-American Studies FITAC 2004 Afr0-Amer. Studies Students use data in UNC-CH collections · Documenting the American South · Southern Historical Collection (Tim McMillan) BACK
Interactive access to image, sound, text. Foreign Languages FITAC 2004 Slavic Languages · MediaBook, The Case Book for Russian · Model for Czech & Polish · NSF research grant (Laura Janda) FL Resource Center (James Noblitt) BACK
Research & peer-to-peer communication. First Year Seminars FITAC 2004 BACK
Recommendation #1 FITAC 2004 Academic Advisory Committee for IT Seek funding & support for innovation. Integrate IT & academic planning. Remove disincentives for digital scholarship. NEXT
Recommendation #2 FITAC 2004 END Panel on Electronic Publishing Implications of institutional digital repositories. Implications of fair use & copyright law. Implications of electronic publishing for scholarship.