The MU Information Technology Committee (MUITC) will advise University leaders on matters relating to the University’s information technology software, systems, security, and operations. 

1. Ensure teaching and learning, and other student-benefitting IT initiatives and expenditures are aligned with strategic imperatives, tactical goals, and operational needs.
2. Represent campus concerns for information and data security and ensure appropriate priority for supportive initiatives and expenditures is considered.
3. Ensure research-specific IT initiatives and expenditures are aligned with strategic imperatives, tactical goals, and operational needs.
4. Ensure a customer-centric approach to IT initiatives, imperatives, and expenditures.

1. Objectively understand and help communicate the university’s strategic imperatives for information and data security.
2. Objectively understand and help define the balance of usability and information security.
3. Objectively understand and articulate the university’s strategic imperatives for research and the technology needs of the research community.
4. Promote technology investments and associated business processes that support the ability of students and faculty to define and monitor their own success.
5. Promote applications, system integrations and business processes that enable students and faculty to be productive, e.g. streamlining applications to reduce barriers and time required to achieve success.

Membership for the MUITC is selected according to campus titles most positioned to support the committee’s purpose and goals.  MUITC chair and co-chair select membership as needed to appropriately staff subcommittees as outlined in section 6 below.  Faculty appointees will be selected by the Faculty Council and approved by the Chancellor.  The faculty co-chair will be selected by the committee from among the faculty representatives. 

1. Members are required to notify the Chair when they are not able to attend.
2. Responsibilities include, but are not limited to:
   1. Chair – Facilitate meetings, assign, and track contributions for research/discovery, reporting, recommendations, etc.
   2. Co-Chair – Coordinate agenda, serve in absence of Chair, selected from among the faculty representation by the committee.
   3. Fiscal Oversight – Maintain budgets, review, and approve spending requests, coordinate new budget with MU Budget Office or shared services members.
   4. Contributor – Investigate, advise, report, recommend.
   5. Scribe/Recorder – taking of minutes, record decisions, recommendations.

1. General meeting order and voting guidelines from https://robertsrules.com/qa-forum/ will be followed. FAQ
2. Topic-specific subcommittees will meet as needed to meet the specific charges outlined in the following section.

Subcommittees for Academic Technology, Research Information Technology, and Information Security will report up through the MUITC, and will make requests and recommendations related to investment, funding, policy, and priority requests to the MU ITC as needed.

Academic Technology Subcommittee – Suggested Charge

• Objectively understand the current budget and resources available to continuously improve education.
• Objectively understand the definition of student success.
• Objectively understand the university’s strategic imperatives for teaching and learning.
• Objectively understand needs of the teaching and learning community and align/prioritize technology.
• Develop a short-term plan that provides a foundational set of infrastructures and capabilities to meet today’s needs.
• Develop and maintain a long-term plan that projects aspirational/future capabilities in the interest of advancing education according to MU’s goals and strategies.
• Provide guidance and support toward:
  • Creating sustainable engagement and outreach processes
  • Developing a comprehensive plan to improve processes and access to resources.
• Objectively understand and continually monitor the satisfaction levels of faculty, instructors, and students.
• Identify key measures for service performance monitoring.

Information Security Subcommittee – Suggested Charge

• Objectively understand the university’s strategic imperatives for information and data security.
• Objectively understand the balance of usability and security.
• Develop a short-term plan that provides a foundational set of infrastructures to meet today’s needs.
• Develop and maintain a long-term plan that projects aspirational/future capabilities in the interest of maintaining best practices for information and data protection.
• Identify key measures for information security program success monitoring.

Research IT Subcommittee – Suggested Charge

• Objectively understand the university’s strategic imperatives for research.
• Objectively understand needs of the research community.
• Develop a short-term plan that provides a foundational set of infrastructures and capabilities to meet today’s needs.
• Develop and maintain a long-term plan that projects aspirational/future capabilities in the interest of advancing research according to MU’s goals and strategies.
• Provide guidance and support toward:
  • Creating sustainable engagement and outreach processes
  • Developing a comprehensive plan to improve processes and access to resources.
  • Developing plans to address personnel recruitment and retention challenges.
• Objectively understand and continually monitor the satisfaction levels of researchers, instructors, and students.

Identify key measures for service performance monitoring.