MINUTES
UNIVERSITY
TECHNOLOGY COMMITTEE
February
5, 2001
Members
Present:
Others Present:
Richard
Crosby, Chairperson Joann
Campbell
Gerry
Merckel Tony
Turrin
Zella
Boulware Bob
Jones
Martha
Rader John
Sharp
Andrew
Farkas Debra
Abbott
Jeff
Michelman Lance
Taylor
David
Jaffee Kathy
Hughes
Larry
Daniel Scott
Runnion
Bruce
Kavan
Donna
Mohr
Rick
Roberts
Scott
Bennett
Diane
Tanner
Chairperson
Crosby convened the University Technology Committee (UTC) meeting at 10:00
a.m. in the Intuition Conference in the College of Business Administration.
1.
Announcements
Crosby
announced that there had were two new members present – Rick Roberts and Scott
Bennett. Everyone introduced themselves.
There were also two new student members added but were not in attendance
at this meeting.
2.
Distance
Learning Action Team
Jaffee reported that he had attended an AAHE Conference and one of the topics of discussion at this conference was the Moore’s Law. Moore’s Law states that “computing power rises exponentially over relatively short periods of time.” This makes it very difficult to put a seamless support system of technology in place.
He also stated that the DL subcommittee teams were continuing to meet and each was responsible for producing a component to be placed in one comprehensive document that would provide a roadmap for how Distance Learning is being done at UNF and where support services were available to assist faculty, students and staff.
Crosby asked if Jaffee thought there would be any budgetary needs for this. Jaffee said he did not believe so.
3.
Mac Action Team
Boulware reported that the
MAC Action Team had met recently and it was decided to roll out Office 2001
to a small group of c-techs and faculty to do preliminary testing prior to
deploying to remainder of campus. She
also announced MAC OS 9.1 was out and this was currently being evaluated for
deployment on campus. This group will
continue to monitor the progress on MAC OS 10 since this had not been released
to the general public yet.
4. Academic Technology & Support Services Committee
Kavan announced that there was a resolution being discussed at this committee that the three web course development packages currently on campus be supported equally. He also stated that the Distance Learning Policy from this committee had been modified and was being referred to the Office of the Provost for inclusion in the Academic Affairs DL policy.
5. Strategic Issues Action Team
No report,
team was not able to meet.
6. Web Advisory Group
Crosby announced that this group was continuing to work on the Web Policy and that he planned to have a demo of the new page to the UTC at the March meeting. Group discussions include what criteria should be used to determine what should be placed on the main page. Computing Services was asked if there were web stats that would show which areas were experiencing the most ‘hits’. These stats will be provided to the WAG and UTC at their next meetings.
7.
Education Governance Reorganization
Discussion centered on the potential changes we may experience in a new system of governance like the community college model or a hybrid of that. Campbell and Crosby highlighted general areas that woule be impacted such as bargaining, program review, sovereign immunity, insurance issues and many more. Affects the technology arena primarily with the requirement that we move from state accounting system and payroll system. Options to consider are university consortium, community college consortium, local systems or outsourcing. Each option will require considerable financial resources – both startup and recurring. Unsure if legislature will help on funding. The transition implementation will require considerable time of many people and UTC will continue to discuss its ramifications.
8. Funding for Electronic Magazines
Kavan stated his concerns about funding for electronic magazines. The Harvard Business Review and MIS Quarterly are two journals used heavily by students and faculty in his area of teaching and research. These two journals appeared to be either withdrawing from the electronic medium or handling distribution differently.
Farkas and Jones reported
concerns about what types of consortium purchases would be available to UNF
after the BOR breakup. Currently UNF
is able to take advantages of these types of arrangements.
9.
Status Update on Current Projects
· Network Bandwidth Hughes reported that network bandwidth connecting UNF to the Internet is still a problem and that funding is being sought to increase the current 6M connection.
·
Currency – Desktop & Central Site Hughes reported that desktop
currency pcs and macs had all been deployed for this year. She also stated
that purchase orders were being submitted for the remainder of labs, servers,
classroom projectors and hub currency identified within the currency threshold
for 00-01.
·
Enhanced Email and Osprey server replacement Hughes reported that the
core project team had been meeting on a regular basis and has been gathering
input through surveys and meetings. Open forums will be held in the next couple of weeks to go over
the scope of the project and solicit more information prior to designing the
final implementation. The plan is
to have an implementation of this project over the summer and be operational
for Fall Term 2001.
10.
Future Issues
Crosby
announced that investigation was continuing on the surveyed pc’s issue.
The meeting was adjourned at 11:45pm.