The meeting was called to order at 3:47 PM. Guests in attendance included Sandy Rothschild, Sally Adkin, Peggy Manring, Pete Goldberg, Eileen McSherry, Kathy Allen, Joan Barber,
Announcements:
Technology Task Force: This body has met regularly for the past four months. Members of this committee include Diane Futrelle, Joan Barber, Sandy Rothschild, Pete Goldberg, and Joe Liles. Jim Litle and John Kolena have also attended most of the meetings. The committee is recommending that we hire a director for a division of technology. Communications, technology (the current ITS) and Lit@Com would fall under this division. A data manager/trainer position would be incorporated into a program coordinator position. Outreach technology applications would fall under the SPIRE umbrella but all other technology applications would be coordinated by this new Division of Technology. The Task Force felt like a cabinet level position was needed to help raise funds and raise awareness in order to keep technology up-to-date. Forming this new division and implementing the plans of the Task Force depends on funding of these positions.
Academic Technology Committee:
The Academic Technology Committee has grouped the technology issues directly related to the academic program into three categories: immediate needs; short-term needs; and long-term needs. The immediate needs include a campus-wide virus detection and prevention system. A site license for Norton Anti-virus has been secured and is being installed. A second immediate issue it the cumbersome log-in process that students have to negotiate. This process is being simplified. ITS is also working to standardize the appearance and capabilities of all public machines. This includes a standard desktop on all machines and the same software available on all machines.
The short term goals include installing the new NT network. With this will come the NT Exchange email. When the change to this new email is made, the old system will remain in effect for a transition period and training will take place to help staff migrate to NT operating system and email package. Greg Barlow ( representing the SGA on the ATC) has proposed that all residence halls have computer clusters with Internet capabilities. Students will help set rules and monitor the clusters.
Long Range recommendations include placing Zip drives and CD Roms drives in the computer labs. The initial consideration of a CD tower tied in to the network has been rejected as it communication with the tower via the network would be too slow. All school forms are being placed online, multi-media classrooms are in the plans pending June notification of a grant. Wiring of the dorms so that students can access the network and the Internet is also planned.
Faculty with suggestions should contact a committee member. The next meeting of the ATC will be on March 23.
The minutes of the January 27th and February 17th meeting were approved as amended.
Faculty Workload Discussion:
Concerns about the workload of the faculty at NCSSM prompted a brief general discussion about the amount of work expected of faculty at NCSSM. In order to get more input, we then broke into three groups. Each group was asked to consider the general question about the faculty workload. Individual groups then were asked to address issues in one of three broad categories: Reorganizing the way we work; Redefining our jobs; or Learning to live with what we have. After the breakout sessions, we reassembled and each group gave a summary of their discussion. A summary of each group's discussion is included. Summary
The meeting adjourned at 5:03 PM.
Submitted by
John Goebel, Secretary