IT governance model for UNT Academic Affairs.
Associate Deans IT Council (ADITC)
Appointed by each college/academic Dean, the Associate Dean representatives, who can provide budgetary and IT operational perspective on behalf of each college/academic unit, help Academic Technologies by:
- Setting Academic IT strategies and priorities.
- Coordinating future planning, funding, and staffing.
- Coordinating actions to leverage purchases.
Co-Chairs
- Brandi Everett, Vice Provost of Academic Resources
- Tim Christian, Assistant VP Academic Information Technologies
Associate Deans Council Members
- LIB – Mark Phillips
- COEng - Seifollah Nasrazadani
- CLASS – Kathryn Cullivan
- COI – Yunfei Du
- Provost Office - Brandi Everett
- TAMS/Honors College – Eric Gruver
- BIO - Lee Hughes
- CVAD – Eric Ligon
- COEd – Ruth Lowery
- COM – Kirsten Soriano
- CMHT (Merging with RCOB in Fall 2026) – Sampath Pamidimukkala
- RCOB – Terry Pohlen
- COM - Kirsten Soriano
- HPS - Tristan Wu
Contact/Facilitator: Debbie Taylor
IT Pros Group
Formerly “TAG” (2012 – 2022) and “DCSMT” (1996 – 2012) and “Network Managers” mailing list, IT Pros is the longest-standing UNT IT user group on campus. Members consist of caring, passionate, and determined IT professionals who keep UNT moving forward by their culture of sharing information, learning together, and sanity-checking final-stage products/ideas.
Members self-select and Dr. Elizabeth Hinkle-Turner, Senior Director, IT Support, Academic Technologies, facilitates the meetings.
Examples
- Final IT sanity-checking of broad-impact or high-risk process, service, and/or product changes.
- Broad sharing of information like:
- Vendor presentations of product roadmaps
- Changes for institutional and/or UNT
- Outages for multi-institutional and/or UNT
- Opportunities to coordinate budget spend to acheive economies of scale