The Minutes from the February 21, 2000 meeting were approved with the following correction:

Fred Sudler stated that Jeff Michelman would be continuing in his role as Associate Dean of the College of Business Administration.

Chairperson Crosby stated that the new schedule for the UTC (as agreed to during the last meeting) is the first and third Mondays of the month. The schedule through the Summer term will be as follows:

Chairperson Crosby stated that he had received an email from Andrew Farkas regarding slow access to the Internet in the Library. Mr. Farkas then handed out a copy of a report prepared by Jim Alderman on "The Impact of Campus Bandwith Problems on Library Services." Funds have been requested to increase our bandwidth from 3 megabytes to 6 megabytes. Following discussion, Chairperson Crosby also requested that Computing Services review the Library networking infrastructure.

Chairperson Crosby reported that Napster is still blocked at UNF. A meeting had been held with Richard Crosby, Tom Robertson, Everett Malcolm, Lance Taylor, Kathy Hughes and Tom Serwatka to seek technical solutions allowing Napster access. The Committee did not express any known academic uses of Napster at this time. Further discussions with affected parties will be held; however, until an appropriate solution can be found, Napster will continue to be blocked.

Tom Serwatka stated that the Distance Learning Action Team meeting would be held on the second/fourth Monday's of the month (just opposite the UTC's new meeting schedule). He handed out the "Distance Learning Course Projections for 2000-2001" with the College of Arts & Sciences now included. He stated that an on-going threaded discussion of Distance Learning is now available on the net and asked that anyone interested in joining email him with his or her request. He has also asked Bruce Kavan to bring the Faculty Association Distance Learning Policy to the Action Team for discussion.

Because Lance Taylor was not at the meeting, this agenda item was postponed.

Chairperson Crosby stated that as requested by Bruce Kavan at the last meeting, the proposed currency policies have now been discussed by members of the Academic Technology & Support Service Committee of the Faculty Association. It was reported by Bruce that there was no "negative feedback" from the committee. Chairperson Crosby asked the UTC members if there were any additional concerns from their constituents and there were none. He also stated that these policies could be amended as appropriate. Following further discussion, there were motions made and seconded to approve the following policies: (1) Computer Currency: E&G Funded Faculty and Staff; (2) Technology Currency: General Purpose Computer Labs, Distributed Computer Labs, Technology Enhanced Classrooms and Videoconferencing Rooms; and (3) Networking Infrastructure/Server Currency: Central-Site Networking Equipment, Central-Site Servers and Remote Closet Networking Equipment. All policies passed unanimously.

Chairperson Crosby also stated that attached to today's agenda is the most current version of the Currency Spreadsheet. He asked that everyone review this sheet and be ready to discuss at the next meeting.

Kathy Hughes stated that attached to today's agenda is a DRAFT project plan on Enhanced Email for Students (Project #16 - 2000). The intent of this project will be to automatically provide every currently enrolled student with an email account at no cost to the student. She also stated that the former Unix system administrator was looking at two packages to manage this and that there is not yet a timeline for completion. She requested that the college representatives let her know needs or concerns. This will be discussed again at a future UTC meeting.

Bruce Kavan had requested this agenda item. Since he was not at the meeting, it will be postponed.

Chairperson Crosby stated that the University is currently trying to identify funds to replace the current (12-year old) voice response system.

Chairperson Crosby stated that in conjunction with the currency policies, there have been internal discussions on a policy for computer redeployment in terms of what happens to them once they are replaced. Lance Taylor has drafted a policy and this will be discussed at a future meeting.

Chairperson Crosby stated that Jeff Michelman had raised the issue that the UTC was just carrying out former strategic plans instead of focusing on strategic initiatives. There have been discussions with Provost Kline on this issue. Chairperson Crosby suggested that the UTC members utilize a series of questions to determine if we have instituted and reviewed our technological deployment in an appropriate and strategic manner. This will be discussed at a future meeting.

There were none presented.