The Committee on Technology Utilization (CTU) was formed in 1981 under Rhode Island College President Sweet to assess the development of computers, audio and visual systems, and other technologies that would be relevant to higher education at RIC. The CTU and advisory panel would break into six subcommittees and would reconvene sometime after May 1983.
The collection contains correspondence and reports of the Committee on Technology Utilization (CTU). Correspondence is between CTU committee members and several individuals and organizations within and outside of Rhode Island College (RIC). The collection includes several technology-related newsletters, papers, and projects from outside RIC that were collected by the committee. These include a Businessweek Communications article, a Brown University proposal to the System Development Foundation, and cooperation with the Annenberg School of Communication/ Corporation for Public Broadcasting Project, which funded the creation of various of video/audio courses and telecommunication projects across the country. The collection also contains the records of the CTU subcommittees: Subcommittee on Computer Support and the Inventory/Needs Assessment Subcommittee, which includes data collections from both subcommittees and their reports to the CTU.
Rhode Island College holds copyright to materials in the collection. Researchers are advised to contact Rhode Island College Special Collections for questions regarding permissions to reproduce, distribute, or otherwise publish material from this collection.
The collection is open for research.
Rhode Island College. Presidential Committees and Task Forces. Committee on Technology Utilization records, CA-0092, Special Collections, James P. Adams Library, Rhode Island College.
This collection has been arranged into the following series:
The collection was in the holdings of Special Collections prior to 2019.
The collection was described under the supervision of Digital Archivist and Special Collections Librarian, Veronica L. Denison by Special Collections intern Kevin Eian Bennett in 2025.
The collection has not been digitized and is not available online.
General records from the Committee on Technology Utilization, including members correspondence and meeting minutes, as well as some subcommittee assignments.
Meeting minutes and correspondence from the Subcommittee on Computer Support, as well as data collected by the Subcommittee and the Subcommittee’s final report to the CTU.
Meeting minutes and correspondence from the Inventory/Needs Assessment Subcommittee, as well as questionnaires for academic departments at Rhode Island College, the data gathered through said questionnaires, and the Subcommittee’s reports to the CTU.