· Search, retrieve, and evaluate the relevance and authority of information

· Use information technology to become aware of and solve problems

· Use information technology to communicate and collaborate with colleagues

· Adapt to new technologies as they develop

· Understand ethical issues related to information technology

· Employ information-technology tools that are used in their discipline and profession

· Recognize the possibilities and limitations of information technology, and select appropriate materials and methods

· Desktop, classroom, and remote access to facilities sufficient in their power and versatility to allow faculty in a broad range of disciplines efficiently to carry out their professional responsibilities in teaching, scholarship, and service

· Access to and compensation for information-technology specialists from the administrative/professional staff and from the faculty who can effectively provide whose duties include supplying generic, application-based, and task-based consultation and training. These personnel are to include (1) analysts assigned to academic units and charged with offering unit-specific assistance, (2) subject-matter specialists charged with offering application-specific assistance (for example, in statistics, graphics, and Web design) to instructional personnel, and (3) operational assistants charged with offering emergency help with problems that arise in instructional environments, whenever classes are in session.

· Access to (1) specialized training and assistance from faculty colleagues in a CELT (Center for the Enhancement of Learning and Teaching) Professional Development Center and (2) multidisciplinary course-development teams charged with assisting in the application of information technology to teaching in traditional and nontraditional educational environments

· Tools for listserv management, e-mail, Internet and Usenet access, group scheduling, and other systems vital to communication among faculty, students, and colleagues

· Efficient access at an Information Center (see Fort Wayne Senate Reference No. SR 95-25) to internal and external databases supporting the university’s mission

· Annual budgeting for maintenance and upgrades of information-technology resources

· Program of enhancing the information-technology skills of instructional staff and of orienting them to the available facilities and capabilities

· Program of enhancing the information-technology skills of clerical workers in the academic areas, through upgraded hiring guidelines and a system of technology-related certification and incentives

· Program of upgrading the information-technology knowledge and skills of administrators, to promote business-process improvements that support the instructional staff

· System of incentives for faculty effectively using information-technology resources in carrying out their professional responsibilities, including scholarship, service, and both classroom and distributed education

· Program of annual assessment of the state of academic information technology, the results of which are to be used to revise the Information Technology Strategic Plan and to enhance academic information technology

· Computing and Data Processing

· Helmke Library

· Learning Resource Center

· Printing Services

· Telephone Operations

· WWW management

· Instructional staff

· School/division information-technology specialists

· The Student Information System (SIS) and related systems

· Administrative Computing Advisory Committee

· Computer Users Advisory Subcommittee (a.k.a. Academic Computing and Information Technology Advisory Subcommittee)

· Distance Education Subcommittee

· Information Technology Policy Committee

· Proposed Center for the Enhancement of Learning and Teaching (CELT) and Information Center

· Distance Education Coordinating Committee (DECCO)

· Faculty Colloquium on Excellence in Teaching (FACET)

· Teaching Effectiveness Interest Group

· Balance of open and closed, general-and special-purpose facilities, These facilities must be budgeted and supported by a balance of centralized and decentralized methods.