Senator Gulotta said his committee is charged with looking at anything related to technology and asked that faculty bring any concerns or issues to his attention and he will take them to the committee for consideration. He offered that the restructuring of services from the faculty resource center to academic computing technology services is a case in point. Changes were made without being brought through academic council. President Landini confirmed that the faculty senate has a direct channel to technology issues and is very fortunate to have these chairs all on the senate. Senator Wattier introduced a motion to ask that the senate request some standardization in support of development of web pages be considered.
Support is limited and individual areas have taken different approaches.
Frustration in updating web pages was noted by senators. This was accepted and referred to the academic policies committee. Senator Muscio reported that no issues of general interest to the university were being discussed by the graduate studies committee at this time. She received this the day after the September meeting. She and Vice President Call did not meet with President Alexander in September but will meet with him on October 17.