Task Force, Information Technology in the Undergraduate Curriculum
Minutes, January 3, 2001
Prepared by Barbara Wildemuth

Attending:  Bill Balthrop, Jeff Cannon, Stephanie Haas, Doug Kelly, Marian Moore, Deborah Walters, Steve Weiss, Barbara Wildemuth (chair)

Since the last meeting, members of the task force had submitted brief recommendations via email, for use in developing a new draft recommendation from the group.  Wildemuth distributed the individual recommendations submitted, as well as a new draft.  The substance of this draft was:
“the task force recommends that SILS be encouraged to table this proposal until a time at which either the University has access to additional resources to support it or plans for a more interdisciplinary program can be developed.  We also encourage you to consider providing resources for the expansion of the already-existing (and extremely successful) information systems minor offered by SILS.”

The following changes were to be made to the draft, based on our discussion:
•	Eliminate the attached page of rationale.  Much of this material would be more appropriate coming from SILS than from the task force.
•	Add an introductory paragraph, providing a context for the work of the task force.
•	Eliminate the reference to additional resources for expansion of the IS minor.

The task force also briefly discussed our next directions.  Wildemuth was given the responsibility of further discussing with Provost Edwards the nature of the second aspect of our charge and its relationship with the work of the Arts & Sciences curriculum review that is underway.  (This later discussion revealed that our second charge was meant to have been focused on determining whether there were any ways to transform the SILS proposal into an interdisciplinary endeavor that would be feasible with our combined resources.  Given this focus, and the discussions already undertaken, the task force will have completed its work once the recommendation on the SILS proposal has been submitted to the provost.)