This page provides an overview of the IT governance model for UNT.
UNT IT Strategy Group
The UNT IT Strategy Group broadly manages our IT functions, how they integrate with system activities, and managing the costs associated with IT at UNT.
NOTE: Related to new UNT leadership, exciting opportunities, and forming initiatives, this governance group is in transition and may change with little notice.
Responsibilities
- Determining the effective use of IT to support business functions for the UNT campus.
- Developing our IT strategy and how we deploy cutting edge technology to support our campus.
- Approving major IT projects as needed.
- Identifying enterprise‐wide needs for consideration by the UNT IT Tactical Group.
- Tracking major IT expenditures.
- Weighing-in on our participation with System projects.
- Periodically reviewing UNT campus project implementation.
- Providing guidance and feedback to the divisions and UNT IT Tactical Group on IT support issues, as needed.
Members
- Neal Smatresk (President): Chair
- Adam Fein (VP Digital Strategies and Innovation; CIO)
- Shannon Goodman (VP Enrollment)
- Debbie Rohwer (VP Planning; Chief of Staff)
- Pamela Padilla (VP Research and Innovation)
- Clayton Gibson (VP for Finance and Administration; CFO)
- Mike McPherson (VP for Academic Affairs; Provost)
UNT IT Tactical Group
NOTE: UNT IT Tactical Group has been replaced by Enrollment Systems' Chief Information Officer James Garrison and his direct reports.
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
Academic IT Leaders
The Academic IT Leadership Group champions, builds, and applies technology to help the Academic Affairs Division advance education, creativity, and research by:
- Implementing and maintaining operational best practices.
- Maintaining shared services.
- Effectively communicating and coordinating with constituents, governance groups, vendors, and other groups as needed.
The group welcomes It experts and other guest attendance. Voting membership includes:
- 1 ex officio for each college/school IT group
- 1 ex officio IT AT Classroom Technologies/IT AITS leadership
- 1 appointed by System IT
- 1 appointed by System IT/IT Security (for security and compliance)
- 1 ex officio Assistant VP Academic Information Technologies; chair and voting member
| Area Representation | Voting Member |
|---|---|
| UNT IT/AITS | John, Abraham |
| UNT DSI DSI-Tech | Olsberg, Ashley |
| UNT System IT | Mears, Andy |
| UNT System IT Security | McLeod, Patrick |
| UNT VPAA Libraries | Rumohr, Garret |
| UNT VPAA CACS | Taylor, James |
| UNT VPAA RCoB | Duncan, Daniel |
| UNT VPAA AT (also for CoI, CLASS, CoS, Mayborn) | Christian, Tim (Chair) |
| UNT VPAA CEng | Ponce, AJ (Interim) |
| UNT VPAA CHPS | Angelogiannos, Vasilis |
| UNT VPAA CMHT | Pamidimukkala, Sampath |
| UNT VPAA CoEd | Benatar, Grant |
| UNT VPAA CoM | Robles, Lorenzo |
| UNT VPAA CVAD | Baggett, Michael |
| UNT VPAA Honors (also for TAMS) | Zumwalt, Roy |
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