MINUTES
UNIVERSITY
TECHNOLOGY COMMITTEE
APRIL
3, 2000
Members
Present: Others
Present:
Richard
Crosby, Chairperson Kathy
Hughes
Zella
Boulware Bob
Jones
Stuart
Chalk Scott
Runnion
Tom
Erdal (rep. Judy Perkin) John
Sharp
Andrew
Farkas Lance
Taylor
David
Jaffee Tony
Turrin
Bruce
Kavan
Jerry
Merckel
Jeff
Michelman
Donna
Mohr
Tom
Robertson
Chairperson
Crosby convened the University Technology Committee (UTC) meeting at 10:35 a.m.
1.
Minutes
The
Minutes from the March 20, 2000 were approved as submitted.
2.
Announcements
a.
Lance Taylor reminded the UTC members
that the Eleventh International Conference on College Teaching and Learning
will be held on April 12-15 at the Radisson Riverwalk Hotel in downtown
Jacksonville.
b.
David Jaffee announced that a new CIRT
Coordinator has been hired. She is Deborah Abbott who will start on April 19th. She comes to UNF from the University of
Florida.
c.
David Jaffee reminded the UTC members
that a Blackboard CourseInfo 4.0 demo will be held today from 1:00 to 2:00pm in
CSDEMO.
d.
Chairperson Crosby stated that
additional funding has been secured to increase the bandwith from 3meg to
6meg. He said that he and Lance Taylor
will be visiting Media One in the near future to negotiate the price since the
additional funding is a little short of the estimated price.
3.
Currency
Chairperson
Crosby stated that the currency spreadsheet handed out at the March 20th
meeting would be discussed in detail at the next UTC meeting. He asked that each of the members go through
the spreadsheet checking that all equipment is included and that the
replacement dates are accurate.
4.
7% Budget 2000-2001
Chairperson
Crosby stated that attached to today's agenda is a copy of the 2000-2001 7%
Tuition Expenditure Proposal. Kathy Hughes discussed each item on the sheet and
at the next meeting, there will be discussion of any concerns.
There
was also a discussion on the re-deployment policy drafted by Lance Taylor. Another suggestion was made to auction off
the surplus computers as other universities do (however, the lack of storage
space is a limiting factor).
Jeff
Michelman discussed Lotus Notes and the hope that it would be not continue in
"trial" status and made a request that possibly the 7% budget could
fund it. Kathy Hughes stated that
annual maintenance of the software is $14,833 and hardware could cost between
$12,000 and $15,000. Chairperson Crosby
stated that he though it was Academic Affairs' position that this would be a
college request, rather than a university-wide one. He requested that Jeff meet with Joann Campbell and Tom Serwatka
to discuss this.
5.
Distance Learning Action Team Report
Tom
Serwatka reported that the distance learning action team has received the
distance learning policy provided by Bruce Kavan and have provided feedback to
Bruce.
6. Internet 2 Action Team
Lance
Taylor reported good response to the faculty survey with 17 faculty responses
representing 32 different research topics.
Lance will provide summary for UTC.
7. Mac Action Team
Mac
action team has nothing to report.
8. Napster
Kathy
Hughes reported that review is underway regarding a traffic shaping solution to
alleviate bandwidth problems associated with products such as Napster. This approach allows prioritization of
network traffic whereby critical applications can be set at higher priority
than nice to have applications. This
would allow us to remove the block on Napster which would run at a lower
priority
9.
Change Management Audit
Change
Management audit will discuss current audit needs following reviews of recent
general network audit by Lucent. Kathy
Hughes will distribute the audit report.
10. Email for all Students
Kathy Hughes provided a brief update on
this project.