1997 CAUSE/CNI Regional Conference

"Delivering the Curriculum and Student Services in a Technologically Enriched Fashion"

CAUSE/CNI Conference
hosted by the University of Delaware
Newark, Delaware
May 21-23, 1997

Conference Program

Wednesday, May 21
(Pre-Conference Seminars and SIGs)

8:00am - 5:00pm

Working Together: A Seminar for Library and Information Technology Professionals

Malcolm Brown, Director, Academic Computing, Dartmouth College; and Susan Perry, Director, Library, Information, and Technology Services, Mt. Holyoke College

This seminar will provide an opportunity for a small number of institutional teams of librarians and information technologists to develop techniques to increase the effectiveness of collaborative efforts and begin a planning process for specific collaborative projects.

8:00am - 11:00am

Campus Business on the World Wide Web

Carl Jacobson, Director, Management Information Services, University of Delaware

Participants in this seminar will learn how to conduct routine business on the campus intranet, open existing legacy systems to the Web, create compelling new Web applications, and build customer-oriented service centers on the Web.

1:00pm - 4:00pm

Planning in the Information Age

David E. Hollowell, Executive Vice President, University of Delaware, and Brian P. Nedwek, Associate Provost, St. Louis University

The society in which we live is rapidly being transformed from the industrial age to the information age. The impact of this transformation is already being felt on our campuses through the ways in which technology is influencing the way we conduct our daily activities. At the same time, new resources to support these changes and to fuel the engine of higher education are scarce. Amidst calls for increased accountability, academic leaders are scrambling for ways to reallocate existing resources to maintain and enhance academic programs and services.

This workshop will explore these issues and how a number of institutions are beginning to address them. Case studies and other resource materials will be used to illustrate some of the creative approaches being taken and to focus on the challenges that lie ahead. Time will be provided for participants to react to the case presentations and to share their own ideas and applications.

1:00pm - 4:00pm

Special Interest Group (SIG)

Joining the National Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations

Edward A. Fox, Gail McMillan, and John Eaton,Virginia Tech (see concurrent session, Thursday, 2:15 - 3:15, for details about these moderators)

This informal meeting is open to anyone who is interested in electronic theses and dissertations, and especially to teams of people (one from the library, one from the graduate school, one from the technology organization) from colleges or universities that might want to join the National Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations. The SIG moderators have all been principal investigators on grants supporting work in this area from the Southeastern Universities Research Association (SURA) and U.S. Department of Education FIPSE program.

Thursday, May 22 - Day One

8:00am - 8:45am Continental Breakfast

8:45am - 9:00am Welcome

Susan Foster, Vice President, Information Technologies, University of Delaware

9:00am - 10:00am General Session

Weaving Technology into the Fabric of the Campus

David Roselle, President, University of Delaware

A superior network of electronic resources at a college or university allows students, faculty, and staff to conduct the business of campus life more easily and more efficiently. A campus network today is an open door to unprecedented knowledge, and graduates can step through that door into the 21st century with the competence and confidence to live, succeed, and be happy in the Information Age.

10:00am - 10:30am Break

10:30am - 12:00noon General Session

The Provosts' Viewpoint on Information Resources Issues

Mel Schiavelli, Provost, University of Delaware (moderator); David Brown, Provost, Wake Forest University; Gillian Cell, Provost, College of William and Mary in Virginia; Michael Kelly, University Vice President, Georgetown University; James V. Maher, Jr., Provost, University of Pittsburgh

A panel of senior academic administrators will present and discuss their perspectives on technology's effect on academic policies, teaching, learning, faculty, student life, and administration. What challenges must be overcome and what opportunities to enhance the delivery of the campus mission are being created in the information age?

12:00noon - 1:00pm Lunch

1:00pm - 2:00pm General Session

Information Technology and the Economics of Higher Education

Richard P. West, Senior Vice Chancellor, The California State University

The proliferation of computers, the widespread networking of our campuses and the rapid diffusion of the Web are making it possible to alter fundamentally how university missions can be delivered. By making information available any time, any where, new models of delivering scholarly content are under development. These new models have different cost structures, new competitors, and other changed economic attributes. Will information substitute for "bricks and mortar," or will IT costs continue to be additive?

2:15pm - 3:15pm Concurrent Sessions

The University of Delaware Undergraduate Virtual Library, Part 1.

Susan Brynteson, Director of Libraries (moderator); Sandra Millard, Assistant Director for Library Public Services; Gregg Silvis, Assistant Director for Library Computing Systems; Craig Wilson, Assistant Director for Library Collections

This panel of University of Delaware Library staff members will discuss the idea of the virtual university, and in particular, library networked databases, full text searching, electronic document delivery, electronic course reserves, expedited interlibrary loan, AskRef, and other new services available.

The Electronic Thesis and Dissertation Project

Edward A. Fox, Professor, Department of Computer Science, and Associate Director for Research, Computing Center; Gail McMillan, Director, Scholarly Communications, and Project Head, Special Collections Department, University Libraries; John Eaton, Associate Provost for Graduate Studies and Dean, Graduate School, Virginia Tech

University publishing and graduate education will be revitalized, and cost benefits will be realized, when universities require theses and dissertations to be submitted electronically. This session will describe the dramatic growth in access and knowledge sharing that results from participating in the National Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations (a project supported by the U.S. Department of Education), and how to implement this program on campus. SURA is supporting regional work in this area, and UMI and OCLC have offered to support archiving functions.

Free Speech on the Electronic Campus

Marjorie W. Hodges, Policy Advisor, Office of Information Technologies, Cornell University

This program will cover how the First Amendment applies to electronic communications in higher education, and will highlight federal and state laws regulating electronic communications and proposed legislation, as well as examples of complaints arising from free speech on campuses. The session will also provide the fundamental components of computer-use policies.

3:15pm - 3:45pm Break

3:45pm - 4:45pm Concurrent Sessions

The University of Delaware Undergraduate Virtual Library, Part 2

Susan Brynteson, Director of Libraries (moderator); Sandra Millard, Assistant Director for Library Public Services; Gregg Silvis, Assistant Director for Library Computing Systems; Craig Wilson, Assistant Director for Library Collections

This is a continuation of the earlier session. This panel of University of Delaware Library staff members will continue its discussion of the virtual university, including library networked databases, full text searching, electronic document delivery, electronic course reserves, expedited interlibrary loan, AskRef, and other new services available.

The Ownership of Electronic Course Materials

Dan Burk, Assistant Professor, Seton Hall University School of Law

The introduction of sophisticated information technology to higher education is now forcing faculty and administrators to reexamine traditional allocations of ownership interests in course materials. Universities have committed substantial resources to creating state-of-the-art course materials, and may anticipate an expanded role in controlling the dissemination of those materials. At the same time, faculty expectations of independence and academic freedom must be safeguarded. This session will explore the legal, ethical, and practical aspects of ownership in electronic course materials.

Mobilizing "The Rest of the Faculty" to Explore Instructional Technology: The Facilitating Role of the Support Staff

MaryJac Reed, Director, Academic Computing Services, and Saiid Ganjalizadeh, Instructional Services Consultant, Catholic University of America

In the midst of a well documented support crisis, support staff are realizing that the mainstream of the faculty are truly interested in incorporating technology into the teaching process, but will require considerably more help and guidance than the "early adopters." This presentation will offer ideas on how to facilitate faculty-to-faculty discussions on teaching and learning with technology, how to foster an open and communicative model to faculty who want to incorporate appropriate technology into their course of study, and how to work towards providing an easy-to-operate campus and classroom environment

5:15pm - 6:30pm Reception

University of Delaware Gallery at Old College

Sponsored by Bell Atlantic

On exhibit at the University Gallery will be "Excerpt: A New Reading of R.B. Kitaj's 'In Our Time,'" drawn from a 1969 series of fifty monumental silkscreen prints of book jackets by such authors as Ezra Pound, Margaret Mead, and Eugene O'Neill. The University Gallery will select approximately ten of these prints and focus on the subject books, the authors, the notion of "the book as an endangered species in the age of high technology," the force of literature as an art form, and the potential benefits of widespread dissemination of literature through the information highway.

http://Seurat.art.udel.edu/UDGallery/GalleryHP.html

Friday, May 23 - Day Two

8:15am - 9:00am Continental Breakfast

9:00am - 10:00am Concurrent Sessions

The Future Compatible Campus

Diana Oblinger, Manager, Academic Programs and Strategy, IBM Corporation

How can you ensure that your campus is future compatible? By transcending the limitations of time and place, digital technologies can open opportunities for learning on a global scale. The creation, transmission, and archiving of knowledge will endure as educational processes; however, policies and procedures as well as faculty roles and expectations will change. The challenges of this emerging environment will be illustrated.

All Join Hands: Patterns of Partnership in Multimedia Development

Diane Balestri, Manager, Instructional and Media Services; David Herrington, Manager, New Media Center; Paula Hulick, Multimedia Specialist, Princeton University

There's broad agreement that effective multimedia development is usually the result of teamwork. Partnerships that include faculty, technical staff, and student assistants are increasingly common, although the individual members of the team may have had no experience with such collaborative relationships. This session examines the delicate inner workings of multimedia development teams through specific case studies, explores difficulties encountered, and advocates strategies for success.

Delivering Library Instruction at a Distance: New Models, New Opportunities

Kim Kelley, Director of Library Services, University of Maryland University College

The Office of Library Services at the University of Maryland University College (UMUC), in collaboration with the UMUC Graduate School of Management and Technology (GSMT), developed a library research course for delivery via Tycho (UMUC's distance education software), with supplemental material on the World Wide Web. The course was successful and will become mandatory for all entering students in GSMT. This presentation will focus on how this course was developed and delivered, the student reaction to its non-traditional delivery, and lessons learned about delivering library instruction to students studying at a distance.

10:00am - 10:30am Break

10:30am - 11:30am Concurrent Sessions

Networked Information Resources and the Future of the Professoriate: The Graduate Student Experience

Wendy Chun, Department of English, and Margaret Vendryes, Department of Art and Archeology, Princeton University

This panel of graduate students from the University of Delaware and Princeton University will discuss the impact of technology on the future professoriate. How are today's graduate students integrating information technology and networked information resources into their studies and their teaching? How will today's graduate students change the campus as they enter the ranks of the professoriate?

New Partnerships for Faculty Technology Development

Janet R. de Vry, Manager, Information Technologies User Services; Judy A. Greene, Director, Center for Teaching Effectiveness; Sandra Millard, Assistant Director for Library Public Services, Morris Library; Patricia Sine, Manager, Instructional Technology Center; Kathy Troutman, Manager, University Media Services, University of Delaware

An intensive Faculty Institute on Teaching, Learning, and Technology was developed at the University of Delaware through the partnership of five different areas of the University. Faculty response to the Institute has been overwhelmingly positive. The original one-week institute has grown into a two-week program and has contributed to the development of several departmentally based programs. The presenters will describe the collaborative process and how that process and the institute have developed and changed over the past two years.

Making the Virtual University a Reality

Bell Atlantic

As colleges and universities move toward making the concept of a "virtual university" a reality, the issue of access for students and faculty, regardless of their physical location, holds greater importance than ever before. Bell Atlantic will discuss the issue of parity of access and the alternatives currently available.

11:30am - 12:30pm Lunch

12:30pm - 1:30pm Concurrent Sessions

Beyond FERPA: Student-Record Privacy in the Networked World

Steven C. Worona, Assistant to the Vice President of Information Technology, Cornell University

New technologies are creating new challenges for privacy in the management of student information. The significant policy and legal issues are no longer limited to the traditional FERPA universe of grades, transcripts, and class selections. Medical information, information about discipline, about access to buildings, about library use, about times and places where individuals dine, where they use their money cards, where their digitized images are stored and how they are used -- all of these concerns and more arise in today's networked world when privacy questions are raised. In this session, the speaker, a member of a national task force, will discuss these issues, and will engage the audience in a dialog about how our campuses can formulate acceptable privacy policy.

Online Courses in American Culture: the Northwestern-Princeton Project

Professor William Howarth, Princeton University; Professor Carl Smith, Northwestern University; Robert Taylor, Director, Academic Technologies, Northwestern University

Two scholars at Northwestern and Princeton have collaborated to build experimental online courses at their respective schools. Using multimedia and Internet resources, they have constructed Web sites that teach methods of research and critical analysis on key issues in American culture since 1800. Students discuss readings on these themes, examine archives of images, search for new research materials, then write and publish their findings. The project uses both conventional software and special adaptations of relational databases.

Assessing the Academic Networked Environment

Christopher Peebles, Acting Associate Vice President, Office of Information Technologies and Dean of Academic Computing, Indiana University

How are institutions in higher education focusing on the assessment of networks and networked information resources, and on the impact of these resources on teaching and learning, the provision of information, and the creation and sharing of knowledge? A Coalition for Networked Information project is focusing on these questions. Nine academic institutions are participating in a field test of a variety of assessment measures based on the work of Charles McClure and Cynthia Lopata, "Assessing the Academic Networked Environment: Strategies and Options." This session will provide an overview of the project and an update on methods and findings.

Government Information in the Curriculum

Joan Cheverie, Head, Government Documents Department, Georgetown University and Visiting Program Officer, Coalition for Networked Information

An increasing amount of federal information is available via the Internet and is being used in many areas of the academic curriculum. How can institutions prepare for the needs of users of networked federal information? A recently issued Coalition for Networked Information white paper, "Access to and Services for Federal Information in the Networked Environment," focuses on these and other issues. Suggestions for new directions in services and instruction will be described in this session.

1:30pm - 2:00pm Break

2:00pm - 3:00pm General Session

Higher Education in the New Millennium

Bill Graves, Chief Information Officer and Director, UNC Institute for Academic Technology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Public and education leaders alike believe that education must be restructured if it is to remain the cultural and economic foundation of a prosperous democracy into the next century. Current instructional models are substantially dependent on time, place, and institution, but today's evolving network of multimedia computers and information resources potentially removes these dependencies. Educators need to design new instructional models giving learners immediate access to information and immersing them in interactive worlds crafted from the new technologies to engage all of the human senses in learning. Education will have to join forces with its non-profit and commercial supporting cast to shift the old capital- and labor-intensive instructional infrastructure of mortar and lectures toward a new national learning infrastructure based on digital technology and intellectual capital.

3:00pm - 5:00pm Technology Tour

A Technology Tour of the University of Delaware

The University of Delaware has received national recognition, including the CAUSE award for excellence in networking, for its innovative application of information technologies in the service of instruction and student life. This campus tour will highlight some of this campus's programs and technical achievements.

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