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Monday, March 20, 20002:10 - 3:30 p.m.MU Garrison Agenda and Minutes
Agenda
MinutesGuests: John Gorrono, Jacquelyn Kamisky, Vicki Suter, Freja Koch, Tim Leamy, Steve Oerding, Barbara Sommer, Ellen Suter, Kevin Roddy, and Jeremy Smith. Staff to the Council: Ian Blake, Gilda Garcia, Pat Kava, and Bob Loessberg-Zahl.
The minutes from the February 14 meeting were approved as submitted.
Vicki went over the Executive Summary of the LEAD report which included the purpose of the project, needs assessment, responsive technologies, recommendations, and institutional infrastructure and policy issues. The issue of intellectual property rights was discussed briefly. Vicki seeks feedback from the Council today on the cost of managing the pilot project. She is aware that it will take time to absorb the recommendations. A faculty reward system needs to be developed in order to attract faculty to use the technology. The educational materials are not recognized in teaching and research since they are not part of the merit system. A peer review process is necessary requiring developed materials to be judged as opposed to simply creating materials. ADA compliance and guidelines for online materials is necessary. The technology needs to be friendly to faculty and students. Think about efficient bandwidth and delivery. At this point, the LEAD project has completed its charter. Chair Matthews thanked the LEAD group for all their work. The project has provided a major survey of the academic needs and is critical to what this council will be doing. The final report is seen as a guide for the Council as UCD moves into a more technology-rich environment for instruction.
Tor Cross reported that the TRC is looking at doing a pilot study during spring quarter to evaluate the two courseware products which the LEAD technology team approved as viable. The goal is to adopt a single package so that there is coordination between students and faculty. Assuming a successful pilot, decisions on funding, server space, how to interface to Banner, etc., will have to be made.
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The AC4 Educational Subcommittee has spent several months reviewing the ITF funds. This exercise is to make recommendations to Dr. Grey for allocation of the funds. The Subcommittee recommends the following allocation of ITF funds:
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Chair Matthews extended his thanks to Ellen Sutter for presenting the information with short notice.
Handouts: Item postponed to the AC4 Steering Committee scheduled on April 3. John Bruno is planning a meeting with Pat Kearney to discuss this topic.
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Handouts: John Bruno went over the March IT Update document distributed to IT Staff last week. The most important item is the three-pronged motivation for all the changes: the AUR report, the campuswide policy-making aspects of the VP-I&ET position, and Tidal Wave III. The plan for the Web pages is to have a link to Office of the VP-I&ET similar to other VPs. The site will include a narrative about what campuswide policy and planning means and will provide a distinction between the IT Division (operations and services), and the overall campus technology planning functions. Updates on Recruitments Randall Moory was selected to fill the position of Policy Analyst. He starts on April 3. Close to 80 applications have been received for the Chief Operating Officer position. The Recruitment Committee is in place and will meet shortly to review the applications. The Security Coordinator position is under recruitment. There are three open positions in the Instructional Technology and Digital Media Center. One is the half-time Faculty Director position, which closed on March 10. The other one is the Associate Director position which has now been posted. The Faculty Director will be part of the recruitment committee for that position. In addition, an MSO position is also currently posted. A fair number of IT staff will be affected by the reorganization: Advanced Networked & Scientific Applications (ANSA), Distributed Computing Analysis & Support (DCAS), and the Center for Advanced Information Technology (CAIT) will be absorbed into the operational units; Illustration Services, the prototype group in Information Resources, and part of the Instructional Media unit will move into a Classroom Services group with Lab Management (LM) and Computer & Printer Repair (CPR) to be headed up by Margaret ByrneÕs replacement (currently being recruited). As part of the IT Planning and Policy group reporting directly to the VP-I&ET, John Bruno is proposing a Technical Infrastructure Forum representing all sectors of the campus, including the colleges and administration, to deal with middleware and technology infrastructure issues.
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