Members Present: Others Present: Richard Crosby, Chairperson Alistair Boudreaux Zella Boulware Kathy Hughes Stuart Chalk Bob Jones Andrew Farkas Lance Taylor Dennis Gay Jeff Jefferies Jeff Michelman Donna Mohr Martha Rader Kurt Salsburg Tom Serwatka Susan Wallace Bill WilsonThe University Technology Committee was convened by Chairperson Crosby at 10:35 a.m. in the College of Business InTuition Conference Room.
Chairperson Crosby announced that Doug Covey will be leaving UNF at the end of this month to take a new position at Idaho State University.
Chairperson Crosby asked if there were any comments from the UTC members on the Technology in Teaching Classrooms Policy. It was agreed that footnote #1 on the bottom of page one be deleted. Footnote #2 on page two would be changed to reflect that the Help Desk is open seven days a week from 8:00am to 8:00pm. There was also discussion on the issue of what equipment Instructional Communications does and would support. It was decided that this item would be tabled for now and that Chairperson Crosby and Bill Wilson would meet between now and the next meeting to clarify this.
Jeff Michelman reported that he has been happy with the phones that were put in the College of Business building. Chairperson Crosby will get with Larry Davis on the status of the remaining buildings.
Chairperson Crosby stated that the following group had met to discuss Lotus Notes (Deans and Associate Deans from College of Business and College of Education, Lance Taylor, Kathy Hughes, Bruce Kavan & Royal VanHorn). Both Bruce & Royal brought a request forward to do a pilot project during the Summer term with Lotus Notes and Kathy Hughes had prepared a budget proposal.
A motion was made to accept the Action Team report prepared by Henry Thomas recommending WebCT, supporting budget development and supporting the Lotus Notes pilot project. This was seconded and unanimously approved by the UTC. A Lotus Notes Action Team was formed with the following members: Jeff Michelman, Chairperson, Tom Serwatka, Lance Taylor, Kathy Hughes, Bruce Kavan & Royal VanHorn. An Action Team statement will be prepared for discussion at the next UTC meeting.
President Hopkins has prepared a new budgeting process and presented this to the Faculty Association. It lists six Institutional Priorities, Areas of Focus for 1998-99 and a flow chart of how to use the Institutional Priorities in the Budget Process. A formal document will probably be sent out this week. The UTC will work within this process to highlight how technology may be used to facilitate goal achievement.
Bill Wilson stated that a satellite PBS videoconference addressing cost effective and appropriate uses of technology in the teaching/learning environment will be held on April 22nd from 100 to 2:30pm. It will be held in Jack Funkhouser's office and will be recorded. He will send out a request this week asking for interest in attending.
Attached to today's meeting agenda package is a DRAFT guideline for Disk Quotas on Systems Managed by Computing Services. Kathy Hughes stated that this is a supplement to the Computer and Network Use Policy. Following discussion, there was a motion made to accept this guideline. It was seconded and unanimously approved.
As proposed in the "Budget Process for 7% Tuition Funds" document prepared by Kathy Hughes, a subcommittee will be formed to determine the priorities and make recommendations to the full UTC on budget issues. The members will be as follows: Richard Crosby as both UTC chair and Administration & Finance Budget officer; Joann Campbell as Academic Affairs Budget Officer; Associate Deans Jeff Michelman and Susan Wallace; Jeff Jefferies as the student representative; Bill Wilson as Associate Vice President for Educational Technology; Dennis Gay as Chairperson of the Academic Technology and Support Services Committee; and Kathy Hughes as Associate Director of Computing Services. This group will meet on Monday, April 12th and present a report at the next UTC meeting.
Attached to today's meeting packet is the proposed charge to the Internet II/High Speed Networking Action Team. Lance Taylor will set up the first meeting and report back at the next UTC meeting.
Dennis Gay requested that, if possible, all e-mail attachments that are sent out with the UTC meeting notice be combined into one document.
The meeting was adjourned at 12:05 p.m.