STANFORD UNIVERSITY                                                  StCD#6908
COMMITTEE ON ACADEMIC COMPUTING AND INFORMATION SYSTEMS              SenD#4684
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     CHARGE TO THE COMMITTEE ON ACADEMIC COMPUTING AND INFORMATION SYSTEMS

 (As approved by the Senate, 12/1/83 and amended 5/29/86 6/15/89, and 4/17/97)


A.  General Charge

    The Committee on Academic Computing and Information Systems, subject to 
    the Charter and Rules of the Senate, shall formulate policies concerning 
    the computing and information systems of the University to meet the 
    academic (as distinct from administrative) needs of the faculty, students 
    and academic staff. It shall also review the implementation of those 
    policies.


B.  Specific Duties

    The Committee is charged specifically with the following duties:

    1.  Receive the recommendations of the Chief Information Officer and
        University Librarian Ð Director of Academic Information Resources
        and recommend new policies or changes in existing policies, if
        appropriate.
    
    2.  Review current practices to ensure that institutional computing and
        information services are responsive to the academic needs of the
        faculty, students and academic staff.


C.  Reporting Responsibilities

    The Chair of the Committee is charged specifically with the following
    duties:

    1.  Keep the Academic Secretary apprised of the substantive issues under
        consideration by the Committee, and report in writing to the Academic
        Secretary within seven days of the Committee action, any policy
        decision or recommendation which may require Senate endorsement.
    
    2.  Submit to the Academic Secretary no later than August 1, one copy of
        a written Annual Report of the work of the Committee during the year
        just completed.  The Annual Report should observe the current
        Guidelines for the Preparation of Reports and Proposals to the Senate
        of the Academic Council.


D.  Subcommittees

    C-ACIS shall appoint subcommittees on matters of specified reference.
    Should subcommittees, including but not limited to the Subcommittee on
    Administrative Computing (SAC), formulate policy, such policy shall be
    reviewed by and, if approved, reported to the Senate by C-ACIS as parent
    committee.


E.  Liaison with Advisory Groups

    The Chief Information Officer, the University Librarian Ð Director of
    Academic Information Resources, and their line officers may establish
    advisory groups with appropriate expertise and/or interests in particular
    areas.  Any advisory group or ad-hoc committee that deals primarily with
    operational issues is required to bring matters of policy to C-ACIS.  If
    the primary purpose of an advisory group or committee is policy related,
    then a formal relationship between that group and C-ACIS shall be
    established.


F.  Membership

    The Committee shall consist of ten voting members, including seven
    members of the Academic Council and three students.  (Both under graduate 
    and graduate students shall be represented.)  At least one Academic 
    Council member shall be a member of the Senate.  The Academic Council 
    members  shall serve staggered three year terms.  Members should represent 
    a wide range of disciplines and have a broad perspective on the 
    development of computing and information services to serve institutional 
    needs. The Chief Information Officer and the University Librarian Ð 
    Director of Academic Information Resources shall be ex officio members of 
    the Committee without vote.  The Chairman of the Senate Committee on 
    Libraries (C-LIB) or at least one designated faculty member serving on C-
    LIB shall be a co-opted a member of C-ACIS.


G.  Meetings

    The Committee shall meet at least six times during the academic year.


H.  Staff Support

    The Chief Information Officer shall be responsible for providing staff
    and secretarial assistance to the Committee.