Members Present: Chairperson Crosby, Shawn Brayton, Pam Chally, Andrew Farkas, Ida Gropper, Bob Jones, Beverly Justin, Kathe Kaston, Donna Mohr, Scott Runnion, Robert Thunen, Dan Wastchak, and Bill Wilson.
Others Present: DeAndrea Jackson and Mike Virzera.
The University Technology Committee was convened by Chairperson Crosby at 10:35 a.m.
Chairperson Crosby requested committee members to notify him by Wednesday, May 7 of any changes, corrections, additions and/or deletions to the Minutes for the March 24 and April 21 meetings. The following changes were made to the April 21 minutes by Pam Chally:
5. Nursing Lab
Pam Chally shared a memo regarding the Nursing Computer Laboratory's needs for the next year use by students. A motion was made to approve some funding, but not totally fund the laboratory as the budget will allow. The motion carried unanimously.
Chairperson Crosby announced that David Kline and Bob Fagin will attend the May 19 meeting. This is a very important meeting and UTC members were encouraged to attend. If a committee member is unable to attend, they were requested to send a representative.
Beverly Justin introduced DeAndrea Jackson, Coordinator for Institutional Services, and Chairperson Crosby introduced Mike Virzera, General Manager of Osprey Network.
Chairperson Crosby will check to see who now represents Student Affairs on the UTC now that Nancy Boerem works in Student Housing.
Marcelle Lovett was not in attendance to report about Distance Learning.
Chairperson Crosby, Jack Funkhouser, Kathy Hughes, Dan Wastchak, and Bill Wilson were scheduled to tour the classrooms on May 6 but the tour had to be rescheduled. Nancy Messer with Enrollment Services will also be invited to tour classrooms.
Chairperson Crosby will provide the UTC with a list of classrooms before the installation of the projection equipment. It is the UTC's intentions to have the equipment installed by Summer B Session or Fall Term 1997.
The technology positions were submitted separate from the Administration & Finance Division's submission; however, it was requested that the positions be resubmitted with Administration and Finance's positions. The Library position was not approved; however, further discussion by David Kline may have preserved this position. Andrew Farkas stated how critical this position is to his operation. FCLA has allocated considerable funding to purchase hardware and software systems for the Library, but no personnel support. These machines are used approximately 14 hours per day by a large number of faculty, students and staff. Personnel resources to support hardware and software are essential. The Committee expressed complete support of Andrew's request. The positions will be discussed the next meeting with David Kline and Bob Fagin.
Shawn Brayton gave an update on Student Information System (SIS) Implementation. Several components of the new SIS will become available in NERCISCS2 on May 27. (See attached handouts distributed by Shawn at the meeting.)
The UTC will address uses of any 7% tuition dollars that are projected to be unexpended this fiscal year. Each representative should prepare budget requests consistent with the 7% expenditure plan.
The Networking Project Currency Report revised May 5, 1997 was distributed with the May 5 UTC agenda (See attached). This issue will be further discussed at the May 19 UTC meeting, time permitting.
Chairperson Crosby asked that each representative prepare an implementation list of who will receive new machines, any shifts of 486 level PC's and which 386 model or lower will be surveyed. This will ensure that the older technology is replaced and removed from inventory.
A prototyping competition will be held for re-designing the web page and the participants would be UNF students, faculty and staff. The committee continues to work on standards, content and technical support tools that would impact the future design.
The UTC has not undertaken the task to review the need for a telecommuting policy. The following questions were raised: do we need a Telecommuting Policy and what role would the UTC play. This issue will be discussed at a future UTC meeting. The University of South Florida (USF) has a Telecommuting Policy but we don't know if the policy was implemented. Chairperson Crosby will check with USF. The Department of Revenue has implemented a telecommuting policy.
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