The University Technology Committee meeting was convened at 10:00am in the Academic Affairs Conference Room by Vice-Chairperson Bill Wilson.

The Minutes from the December 1, 2003, meeting were approved as submitted.

Announcements

Tony Turrin reported that Guy Haynes will be leaving the University soon. Kathy Hughes reported that Bernard Ablola has been hired as UNF's new web master. He will be working out of Marketing & Publications.

Distance Learning Action Team Report

Jace Hargis reported that the Action Team has been broken down into sub-groups which are discussing the following: (a) hybrid courses; (b) Teach Act; (c) pairing up courses with professors; (d) Educational Technology Plan. He said that more interest has been shown by faculty in teaching on-line courses. A guidelines & assessment document is being developed and training will be provided. The next DLAT meeting will be held on February 9th.

Tony Turrin reported that Blackboard version 6 went live on December 31st. There are now 666 Blackboard course sites which represent almost 900 course sections. This is being used by over 280 faculty members.

Mac Users Group Report

John Sharp reported that the Mac Users Group had met on January 14th. The main agenda item was regarding client issues.

Network Acceptable Use Action Team Report

Katharine Brown reported that Ida Gropper has agreed to chair the section on communications; however, because of her commitments to ERP, this may not happen immediately.

Campus Technology Committee Report

Katharine Brown reported that the Committee did not have a quorum at their last meeting. They are looking at faculty web pages and will meet with Marianne Jaffee this week. There are not a lot of issues on the table at this time; however, they plan to get up to speed in the next several months.

Information Technology Security Action Team Report

Jeff Durfee reported that there have been several major worms and viruses lately; however, there has been minimal impact to the UNF network. With the re-design of the registration process and the downloading of the Norton Antivirus software, the problems in the residence halls have been less.

ERP Update

Scott Bennett stated that every team is in place and are hard at work (with the exception of Financial Aid). Finance training will begin in March. Tony Turrin reported that they are trying to get the portal in by June. The administration has approved the purchase of a system to replace our current imaging system (called NOLIJ).

Currency 2003/2004 Update

Kathy Hughes stated that the first round of currency computers was ordered in December and the first $175,000 computers have been rolled out. There is still a need for an additional $75,000 to complete desktop currency. It is critical to get this additional funding in order to move users from unsupported operating systems such as Windows 98 to more current and supported operating systems such as WindowsXP facilitating the push of security patches, etc.

Dial-In Lines

Lance Taylor has talked to his counterparts regarding what they do in terms of charging for dial-in lines. Most charge a fee and the others are looking at eliminating dial-in for free.

Kathy Hughes reported that we currently have 63 free dial-in lines. A traffic study done September to present shows that 335 faculty/staff and 741 students have dialed-in. Our cost is $10,000 per PRI which is about $30,000 per year.

It was stressed that the UTC needs to make a recommendation regarding the continuation of free dial-in. There are also concerns that students are being pushed to use Blackboard and the free dial-ins may be eliminated. This will be discussed again at the next UTC meeting.

Portal Demo

This was postponed until the next meeting.

New Business/New Issues

Jerry Watterson stated that resident students are complaining to him about their being restricted from gaming on the Internet. Bill Wilson will meet with Richard Crosby about this will be discussed again at the next meeting.

The meeting was adjourned at 10:26am.