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Berkeley Information Technology Review Committee

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I have just been chosen as the graduate student representative to the Berkeley Information Technology Review Committee. (I've spent the past year on the eBerkeley Steering Committee and the previous two years on the eBerkeley Educational Technology Committee.)

The new committees charge and (quite impressive) membership is described below the fold.

UPDATE [2005-10-20 14:28:08]: After a few email comments, I should note that this is an opportunity for students to have a direct say in how decisions are made about information technology at UC Berkeley. This committee will shadow the next ten or so years of tech. decisions on campus. I'd like to see those decision made well and to enable seamless, world-class research, education and administration.

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As described in a recent Berkeleyan article about the retirement of CIO Jack McCredie, "He’s been here for the revolution in communication and access":

An information-technology review committee, chaired by Provost Emeritus C. Judson King, will convene for its first meeting this month to examine IT governance, funding, and structure on the campus. That committee, created by Executive Vice Chancellor and Provost Paul Gray, will include Jay Stowsky, former associate dean of the Haas School of Business and the IT study group’s project manager, several campus leaders, and consultants external to the university.

“Our quest should be to discover how to take the almost magical advances we see on a regular basis in information technology,” says McCredie, “and use them to integrate research, teaching, and outreach into a unified learning environment that is the essence of Berkeley.”

This committee's members include:

  • (Chair) C. Judson King, UC Provost and Senior Vice President Emeritus and Director, CHSE
  • Susie Castillo-Robson, Berkeley Resgistrar
  • Jim Davis, Assoc. Vice Chancellor for IT, UCLA
  • Robin Einhorn, representative for ASCCC
  • John Gage, Chief Scientist, SUN Microsystems
  • Robert Glushko, Berkeley School of Information
  • James Hilton, Assoc. Provost, University of Michigan
  • Nick Jewell, Berkeley Statistics
  • Vijay Kumar, Director of Academic Computing, MIT
  • Michael McRobbie, VP of IT, CIO and VP for Research, Indiana University
  • David Messerschmitt, Co-chair, ASCCC
  • Joseph Lorenzo Hall, Graduate Assembly Representative, Berkeley School of Information

There are slew of Advisory members that I know well:

  • Patricia Donnelly (Boalt CIO and IT Directory)
  • Mara Hancock (Assoc. Dir. for Learning Systems at ETS)
  • Helen Norris (Exec. Dir. Budget and Finance Info. Sys.)
  • Shelton Waggener (Dir. of Central Comp. Svcs. and IS&T).
  • (one I don't know very well) Barbara Barnett (Principal Budg. Analyst at the Budget and Finance Office)

Admin staff includes Jay Stowsky and consultant Katherine Mitchell.