Senate

Origin: Director of Information Strategy and Services

Proposals for IT-related governance in 1999-2000

Having consulted with the Senior Pro-Vice-Chancellor and having taken note of recommendations made in the recent review of Computing Services, I wish to propose that with immediate effect Information Services Committee should cease to be a joint Senate/Council committee and instead become a Sub-Committee of Resources and Planning. Its composition should be:

Chair:	The Senior Pro-Vice-Chancellor
Members:	The Director of Information Strategy and Services The Chair of the IS SIG The Registrar The Bursar The Deans A Senate member of the academic staff One nominee of the Students' Union Executive One nominee of the Postgraduate Association

Up to three co-options would be permitted. Directors of Services and other members of staff would be in attendance as appropriate.

To meet four times a year.

Terms of Reference

• To keep under review the University's strategy in the area of information services and information technology.
• To ensure that this strategy meets institutional objectives.
• To be responsible for matters of policy in this area, including the balance of central, faculty and departmental provision of information services.
• To receive recommendations and reports from its Information Implementation Group.
• To consider and recommend annual budgets for Audio Visual Services, Computing Services and the Library to the Resources and Planning Committee.
• To comment and transmit to Senate and Council an annual report including the use of approved budgets.
• To receive and consider reports from the Audio Visual Services, Computing Services and Library Users' Committees (pending consideration of the future of these Committees).
• To act as a channel of communication between the information services and members of the University.
• To make recommendations to the Resources and Planning Committee.
• To report to the Resources and Planning Committee after each meeting.

The Committee is expected to form an Information Implementation Group which, among other things, would be charged with making proposals to ISC for the inception of information projects, providing evaluations of proposed information projects and supervising the management of information projects on behalf of ISC.