However, the institutions submitting these courses will come under a different system of accreditation in two years, and then the question may be moot. The motion presented today on transfer agreements passed unanimously. Provost Walter Eggers was present for the discussion that preceded the vote on the motion on transfer credit. V. Report on the Academic Computing Advisory Committee - Senators Raymond Greenlaw and Pedro de Alba reported that this standing committee, in which they are the Senate's representatives, was formed by the president and has twenty members from many constituencies and working groups from each college. The committee plans to inventory all academic computing equipment and do a survey of computing needs.
Input is requested from each constituency.
Some propose that academic computing should have a separate organization, budget and personnel from Computing and Information Services. Others feel that there should not be new grouping but that CIS should properly serve the needs of academic computing. Senators Greenlaw and de Alba put a series of questions to the Senate, and discussion included the following points. Then computer clusters could be used for specialized purposes, but there would be greater use of our system for electronic mail and the web. In that case, the university would need to invest in a high speed server for all email.