FITAC 2004
Faculty IT Advisory Committee
Annual Report
James S. Noblitt, Chair
www.unc.edu/fitac
The University of North Carolina
at Chapel Hill
Membership
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 Faculty & IT Support Staff
Biology, Economics, Music
Health Sciences Library
English, Nursing
Public Health
Mathematics,
Slavic, Romance
Afro-American Studies
Academic Affairs Library
OASIS
ATN
ITS
AIS
CIT
CTL
Continuing
Education
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Issues
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 Support for Innovation
• Limited budgetary resources
• Uncertain system rewards
• Need for coordination
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Coordination
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 Top Down & Bottom Up
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Implementation
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 Underutilized Resources?
One of the abuses of
power is not to use it.
- John Kenneth Galbraith
The Anatomy of Power
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General Education
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 Truth & Beauty
At present we are making do in our half-educated
fashion, struggling to hear messages, obviously of
great importance, as though listening to a foreign
language in which one only knows a few words.
- C.P. Snow, The Two Cultures
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Scholars & IT
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 The Knowledge Business
Creation
Storage
Dissemination
of Information
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Medium & Method
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 The Evolution of Media for Education
ORAL
PRINT
IMAGE
DIGITAL
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Learning Environments
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 Music
 Mathematics
 Afro-American Studies
 Foreign Languages
 First-Year Seminars
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Music
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 Sound files: The right medium for study.
Music 44: Introduction to
Country Music in
large lecture with
online database
of words, music
bios, pictures
(Jocelyn Neal)
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Math
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 Tools for visualization & exploration.
Math 125: View third dimension
with Mathematica; Seminar:
Fractal geometry of nature
(Sue Goodman)
Math 10: Self-paced Algebra for
on-campus study
(Mark McCombs)
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Afro-American Studies
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 Access to primary data for research.
Afr0-Amer. Studies
Students use data
in UNC-CH collections
· Documenting the
American South
· Southern Historical
Collection
(Tim McMillan)
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Foreign Languages
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 Interactive access to image, sound, text.
Slavic Languages
· MediaBook, The Case
Book for Russian
· Model for Czech & Polish
· NSF research grant
(Laura Janda)
FL Resource Center
(James Noblitt)
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First Year Seminars
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 Research & peer-to-peer communication.
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Recommendation #1
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 Academic Advisory Committee for IT
• Seek funding & support for innovation.
• Integrate IT & academic planning.
• Remove disincentives for digital scholarship.
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Recommendation #2
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 Panel on Electronic Publishing
• Implications of institutional digital repositories.
• Implications of fair use & copyright law.
• Implications of electronic publishing for scholarship .
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