Faculty, students, and University resources at Columbia University are joining their efforts together to create and maintain a campus-wide project known as the Instructional Technology Cluster (ITC). It is an on-line, World Wide Web-based development of a construct called "Faculty Cluster for Instructional Technology" (FCIT) initiated in the summer of 1997. The School of Engineering and Applied Science, Gateway, the Office of the Provost, and the department of chemistry fund ITC. Although Professor Turro of Chemistry and Dean Friedman, Gateway's IAL at Columbia, lead the program, participants come from almost every department in the university. A number of post-doctoral professors and visiting faculty have been hired to help guide the project as it expands into experimenting with videoconferencing as an instructional tool.

In its first stage, FCIT is concentrating on undergraduate instruction and teaming in science and engineering. The FCIT provides information that is useful to faculty, such as instructional and teaming assessment, instructional design, intellectual property, and funding of the instructional activities, in addition to providing information such as directories of the members, calendars of events, etc.

Dr. Zvi Galil, Dean

School of Engineering and Applied Science
Columbia University
500 West 120^th Street
New York, NY 10027