General counsel 

Undergraduate and graduate student body 

Library 

Public Information Office 

Chancellor's Administrative Records Office 

Student Affairs 

CATS and BAS (other areas such as Physical Planning and Construction) 

To keep the committee to a manageable size, the representatives from the above organizations 

also would represent the following functions:  

Content expert 

Web developer 

Information architect 

System administrator 

Unit head 

Some members of the Web Services Committee want to participate on the ongoing Web Council. 

In order to be successful, the ongoing committee members would need to allocate a percentage of 

their positions to the committee.  

The ongoing Council would report to the ITC, continue to refine the concepts proposed in this 

report, constructively communicate with the campus web developers, and provide continuity in 

implementing a strategic web development framework. The Web Council would provide research 

and recommendations on policy, including draft policy, for the consideration of the Information 

Technology Committee. For example, recently there it has been suggested that  UC Santa Cruz  

replace  UCSC  in official university communications, to reduce confusion with  USC  and to build 

market awareness. This is an issue that could be studied by the Web Council. Request that ITC 

appoint committee by end of June 2002. Committee members would commit 10% time during the 

first year, with perhaps 5 10% time in subsequent years. If the committee has about 8 members, 

this could represent and 80% FTE commitment.   

2.  We recommend that the ITC advocate that resources be given for activities to build communities 

among web developers, content managers, system administrators, and information architects. The 

activities would be organized by the Web Council and would use some of the decision making 

processes currently implemented by Computing Coordinators.  

We recommend that resources be given for a monthly online newsletter targeted at all campus 

IT professionals, similar in scope to UCLA's iCompass 

http://www.icompass.ucla.edu/index.htm

 . Jim Davis, Associate Vice Chancellor for 

Information Technology, UCLA, uses iCompass as a vehicle to communicate the IT vision of 

 coordinated autonomy  with all IT professionals at UCLA. IT staff learn about web tools, a 

variety of training, vendor seminars, new IT campus services, profiles of IT staff, IT job 

openings on campus, through iCompass. iCompass is pushed out via email and is also 

available on the web. Printed versions are sent at UCLA, but are not recommended for UCSC. 

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