UH Classrooms

The UH Task Force II on Classrooms was appointed by Associate Provost Elaine Charlson in November, 2000 and charged with devising plans and recommending policies to ensure the efficient and effective use of UH classrooms. The charge to the committee remains that given to UH Task Force I on Classrooms.

Charge to the Committee :

  1. Recommend Immediate solutions to problems students and faculty find in their classrooms.

  2. Recommend policies and strategies that lead to a systematic way in which classrooms can be maintained, refurbished, and remodeled.

  3. Review recommendations made in 1997 by the University of Houston Undergraduate Council related to UH Classrooms and propose strategies for implementation.

  4. Review the conditions existing in UH classrooms -- both general purpose and assigned.

Task Force Members:

  1. John Antel, Economics
  2. John C. Butler, Associate Dean, NSM and Chair
  3. Barbara Fasser, Executive Director, Academic Budgets and Operations
  4. Mario Lucchesi, Registrar
  5. Brian McKinney, Office of the Provost
  6. Steve Mintz, Associate Dean, CLASS
  7. Melissa Pierson, Curriculum and Instruction
  8. Betty Roberts, Associate Vice President, Information Technology
  9. Tom Wray, Plant and Operations

The Classroom Task Force is interested in your opinions on questions dealing with the installation of technology in UH classrooms. Please take a few minutes to respond to a survey. Your responses will help us recommend changes to current policies and procedures.

Historical Records and Documents

  1. Field Trip To UH Classrooms

  2. Historical Documents -- pre 1998

  3. Committee Activities : 1998-1999

  4. Committee Activities : 1999-2000

  5. UH Classrooms - Resources

    1. The UH Moles
      an ad hoc group of faculty with interests in technology and learning

    2. Archives of UH-Camel
      Creating and Maintaining Environments for Learning - CAMEL - is a Listserv which has been addressing issues facing learning on campus.

    3. Office of Planning and Policy Analysis
      The Fact Book On-Line - much of it anyway

    4. UH General Purpose Classrooms
      UH Media Services. Offers an opportunity to make comments about classrooms on campus.

    5. The Next Generation of Learning Management Systems
      by Don Norris, UH Seminar,May 7, 1998

December 10, 1998.