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In the fall 2002 Mark Gold and Barbra Higginbotham completed the final draft of the College's Information Technology Master Plan, begun during the previous academic year following a charge from Provost Roberta Matthews and Vice-President Steve Little. On November 18 at a meeting of the Teaching, Learning, and Technology Roundtable the plan (which includes the College's technology mission statement, below) was accepted.
Brooklyn College, a comprehensive, state-funded institution of higher learning in the Borough of Brooklyn, embraces the twin goals of access and excellence that are articulated by its parent institution, the City University of New York. The particular mission of Brooklyn College is to provide its students with a superior education in the arts ands sciences. Within this context, the College seeks to advance its position as a leader among academic institutions in the use of information technology to enrich the learning environment, expand communication, and link the College community with a global community.Brooklyn College's deployment of technology is characterized by both a strong service orientation and a readiness to respond to a rapidly changing world. Accountability and assessment must be explicit aspects of every initiative involving or supported by technology. Specifically, the College strives to use technology to support the three overarching goals of its 2000-2005 Strategic Plan.
To maintain and enhance academic quality. Brooklyn College will use a wide range of technology resources to support and enrich learning, teaching, research, and communication. To this end, technology will become a pervasive and transparent part of the lives of students, faculty, and staff, enhancing their abilities to meet their academic needs. All members of the College community will have access to a broad array of instructional and training opportunities for the effective use of technology resources, as well as the requisite ongoing support. The College will also use powerful and reliable technology-enabled support services (registration, grade reporting, transcript generation, Library data) that effectively support academic processes.
To assure a student-oriented campus. Through skilled and innovative applications of technology, Brooklyn College will ready its students for success in both the present academic environment and their post-graduate lives. Using exciting and interactive learning technologies, Brooklyn College will develop students who are academically complete, technologically competent, and engaged by the learning process. Technology will also be employed to increase and enhance communication between and among students and faculty. Technologies will support collaborative learning and community building both inside and outside the classroom, expanding the content that can be taught and promoting critical thinking. Information technology will also be employed to improve students' access to Library and information resources.
To become a "model citizen" in the borough of Brooklyn. At Brooklyn College technology will be used to create, extend, and support collaboration and partnerships, not only within the borough of Brooklyn but regionally, nationally, and internationally. Information technology will enable students and faculty to embrace and communicate with a global community of scholars. The College will also stimulate and support research and development of academic and administrative applications, enhancing its ability to further and contribute to academic life beyond the gates of Brooklyn College.