The focus of the EUTT will be on assessing new technologies and a systematized basis for deploying those technologies. There won t be exclusion of any units in the technical evaluations because the technical teams will be comprised of volunteers, i.e., anyone who has a vested interest in the technology that s being evaluated provided they can add some value to the current project. The key is having a core of people who manage and who really know what s going on in the university and can draw from the rest of the community as needed to create the technical teams. The size of the core group hasn t been determined, but a group consisting of one representative from each college, plus some VP s who would have to be involved, is about 19 or 20 people. Again, the vision of the EUTT is evaluating the technology, not the policies or the implementation, and letting other boards take a look at policy issues.
Awareness is key, and communication is more important than representation.
The EUTT will have their fingers on the pulse of all the units, and know whom to draw from for actual participation. They will have to communicate to all units completely. This could be accomplished by posting to UGANet, or some technical group, and listing a web page for the scope of the current project. Those interested would then e-mail their college representative stating that they want to be part of the technical team for that project. However, the interested individual would need to have some standing with their dean in order for them to be considered for participation as a great deal of their time could be needed for the project.