Dr. Chace commented that the university-wide committee would be a body with broad oversight responsibility to effect equity throughout the university at the time tenure is recommended. Its second function would be to provide a high level faculty group with which the President can consult. One member suggested that the group be called the Faculty Advisory Board to reflect its role. Create an information resources council. Coordinate activities in support of teaching through the Teaching Commission.
Network is particularly important to people who are physically remote from the campus.
Each freshman class is more technologically sophisticated than the one before and that sophistication includes higher expectations for the technology capability on the campus. Financing through external grants is limited, but cooperation with other institutions in the area might make Emory a more attractive grant recipient. Increased access requires increased time in reading email, listening to voice mail, etc. The need to communicate appears to be insatiable with the upper boundary being simply the number of hours in the day during which one can interact. Paper will remain the primary display medium.