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Governance Charter
September 13, 2004
Revised August 31, 2005
Revised September 20, 2008
Charge:
The Advisory Committee on Research Computing (ACRC) will advise the Chief Information Officer / Vice President for Information Technology Services on the best strategies for providing information technology resources to support research activities at Case. The ACRC will serve as a conduit for the two-way dissemination of information related to research computing between the university and the schools and research centers of the university and will serve to otherwise enhance communications among the research leaders of the schools. The ACRC will keep abreast of technological, philosophical, and operational advances that impact research computing and advise the CIO/VPITS on how the university should prepare to support research computing at Case in the future. The ACRC will take on other responsibilities requested by the CIO/VPITS or the Provost.
Membership:
The ACRC shall be composed of at most twenty (20) members. Five members will be as follows: the senior ITS staff member in the area of Research Computing, a representative from the Office of the Provost, a representative from the Faculty Senate Committee on Research, a representative from the Faculty Senate Committee on Information Resources, a graduate student representative nominated by the Graduate Student Senate. Up to another fifteen members will be selected from a pool of faculty nominees to be solicited from:
- • The chair of the Faculty Senate Committee on Research
- • The chair of the Faculty Senate Committee on Information Resources
- • The chairs of the research committees of the School of Medicine, the School of Dental Medicine, the School of Engineering, the College of Arts and Sciences, the School of Nursing, the School of Law, the School of Applied Social Sciences, and the School of Management
- • The Deans of the School of Medicine, the School of Dental Medicine, the School of Engineering, the College of Arts and Sciences, the School of Nursing, the School of Law, the School of Applied Social Sciences, the School of Management, the School of Graduate Studies, and the Office of Undergraduate Studies.
- • The Provost
- • The chair of the Provost's Research Council.
- • The CIO / Vice President for Information Technology Services
In addition, ex-officio members may be named from the Office of Research and Technology Transfer (by its Vice President), the Kelvin Smith Library (by the University Librarian), and the Division of Information Technology Services (by its Vice President).
Term of Appointment:
Appointments will be made for two-year terms ending on June 30. The terms of approximately half of the membership will end each year. The student appointments will be made for one-year terms ending on June 30.
ACRC Operational Plan:
The ACRC will function as a committee of the whole and forward written recommendations to the CIO/VPITS when a majority of the membership deems it appropriate. The ACRC will also function as the Subcommittee on Research Computing within the ITS Planning and Advisory Committee (ITSPAC), and all members of ACRC will also be recognized as members of ITSPAC. In this capacity ACRC will report its activities in bimonthly ITSPAC meetings and will have a formal role in ITSPAC in setting ITS priorities. The chairperson will convene monthly meetings. The chairperson will be selected from among the membership by the CIO/VPITS.
Potential Overlap with Other Committees:
There are at least three committees at Case that have charges that overlap with the charge to this committee. Two are committees of Faculty Senate (the Committee on Information Resources and the Committee on Research) and one is a committee of the Undergraduate Faculty (the Committee on Academic Computing and Information Resources). The existence of ACRC is justified in that ACRC is specifically focused on the area of research computing while the other committees have broader purviews, and in that the membership of ACRC is not limited to faculty. |
