The Administrative Technology Council shall, in a pro-active manner, encourage and champion the development of administrative committees and cross-administrative interest groups concerned with information technology issues at the University.
The Council shall be an advocate for widening the use of information technology in administrative support activities, especially when it is an effective tool in process simplification, and shall contribute to the development of architecture for that goal.
The Council shall provide long range thinking on University-wide directions for information technology and shall provide a forum for communication among constituencies, monitoring current operations, and providing a mechanism for end-user input.
The Council shall provide a focal point for policy questions and input from information technology committees in various administrative units and shall address the impact of administrative systems on an institutional level. It shall actively help to build effective relationships between administrative units and departments, technology service organizations, and University leaders who make decisions on major technology matters.
The Council's role shall be communicative, deliberative, and representative, with meeting times and durations set to facilitate these activities and with e-mail and other electronic means used to stimulate communication between meetings.
The Council shall include a chair and vice chair appointed by the President by virtue of their membership on the University Committee on Information Technology and members representing various administrative units and departments, appointed by their respective vice presidents. It shall have a steering committee to help set the substantive agenda, and shall exchange pertinent information, reports, and recommendations with expert groups as appropriate.