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On May 14, 2003, Drs. Sandie Miller, Miryam Wahrman, and Julie
Bliss met to develop an understanding about a University Technology Committee,
its purpose, structure, and goals. That discussion led to the following
recommendations:
Rename the technology committee, Teaching Learning with Technology
Roundtable (TLTR) to Technology Across the Curriculum (TAC). The rationale
for this name change is two fold:
1. The acronym is easily translated by the uninformed into Technology/Teaching
across the Curriculum and the purpose is inferred.
2. The processes will mirror the current Writing Across the Curriculum (WAC)
that has established a tradition for participation by the entire campus
community.
Mission
The mission of Technology Across the Curriculum (TAC) is to facilitate student success,
educational excellence and community outreach using technology for collaborative
teaching and learning, professional development, instructional resources and support
for online and other forms of distance learning. The diverse group representing faculty,
students, information systems, librarians and administrators will assist in promoting
collaborative change and developing better strategies for using technology to improve
teaching and learning. Through TAC, creative thinking about learning, pedagogy, and
curriculum is integrated with creative thinking about technology and the times and
spaces where learning occurs. This includes identifying barriers to students and faculty
and supporting the mainstreaming of technology for student success, teaching excellence,
and dynamic research.
Goals & Objectives
Promote the mission of TAC and William Paterson University by:
- Disseminating information related to using technology for teaching, learning, and research to the university and public community.
- Establishing a Technology Across the Curriculum faculty development series to provide training, collaboration, and support for faculty.
- Building and maintaining, in conjunction with IRT, a center for students
and faculty containing instructional and informational technology
resources.
- Recognizing faculty and students who use technology creatively in teaching, learning, and/or research.
- Showcasing exemplary uses of technology in teaching, learning or research.
- Supporting teaching with technology as scholarship during faculty review.
- Participating in regional and national technology conferences.
- Participating in University-wide efforts to improve and develop technology to support teaching, learning, and research integration as articulated by the General Education Committee of the Senate (April 1998) and supported by a resolution (April 1999).
- Technology for communication
- Technology for data collection
- Technology for data analysis
- Technology for global outreach.
Membership
- One faculty from each Academic Department of the University.
- One representative from each of the following Departments or Offices:
- Instruction and Research Technology (IRT)
- Library, Information Services (IS)
- Deans and Directors
- Continuing Education/Distance Learning (CEDL)
- Student Technology Consultant (STC) program
- One student representative from each College (5) appointed by the Deans.
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