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Monday, April 17, 2000
2:10 - 3:30 p.m.
203 Mrak Hall
Agenda and Minutes
Agenda
- Approval of Minutes & Announcements- Harry Matthews
- Held over from last meeting - John Bruno
- Review of biennial budget proposals - Bob Loessberg-Zahl
Minutes
Present: Mary Jo Anderson, Bob Becker, Matt Bishop, John Bruno, Jack Farrell, Cristina González, Jerry Hallee, Harry Matthews (Chair), Peter Rock, Marilyn Sharrow, Kevin Smith, John Stenzel, Pat Turner, John Vohs.
Excused: Dorothy Howe, Zack O'Donnell, Richard Plant, Mel Ramey.
Absent: Lamar Heystek, Jennifer Ramesh, and Ellen Sutter.
Guests: 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, Bob Loessberg-Zahl, Donna Olsson, and Randy Moory.
Guests: Joyce Kinkead, Elizabeth Langland, Biswanath Mukherjee, and Carol Wall.
- Approval of Minutes & Announcements - Harry Matthews
Harry Matthews (Chair) opened the meeting and obtained approval of the previous meeting minutes.
John Bruno introduced Randy Moory, the new policy analyst who will staff the Councils.
- Computer Ownership Statement Released to Catalog
Handout: UCD General Catalog Student computing Statement
- AC4 Recommendations on ITF sent to Provost
Handouts:
- Memo to Provost Grey dated March 28, 2000
- Memo to Provost Grey dated April 6
- IT Funds 1998-01 AC4 Recommendations (Excel spreadsheet)
Chair Matthews briefly mentioned the handouts for these two items, the addition of the student computing statement for the new catalog and the recommendations to Provost Grey for IT Funds.
- Held over from last meeting - John Bruno
Handouts:
- Email message from Doug Hartline to John Bruno, dated February 22, regarding NOAC Bandwidth Response
- Memo to John Bruno from Kevin Rhodes, Assistant Director Network Operations and Maintenance, dated February 4, 2000, regarding Increased internet Bandwidth
- Network saturation in RESNET
The current saturation of RESNET is preventing students from accessing campus resources. Kevin Rhodes (Division of Information Technology) then gave a brief presentation addressing the problem. The downloading and moving of MP3 and other multimedia files is severely saturating the network between the hours of 1600 and 0200. Bandwidth utilization exceeds 80% during these periods. Kevin presented 3 technical options to address this problem and how well they could be implemented:
- Block Ports used by software (difficult to implement since port can change)
- Limit Bandwidth to RESNET (can be reasonably accomplished but impacts everyone)
- Limit traffic at the router with router filtering
- Costs for access to the commercial Internet
Kevin stated that the increase in bandwidth usage had increased costs to connect to the commercial Internet by $12,000 per month.
The council discussed the options for addressing the saturation issue. Several members expressed concern that the technical options did nothing to eliminate the saturation problem impacting students' abilities to access campus resources. Members suggested further education of the students about the impacts to their fellow students and the issues of copyright. The suit of 3 universities by the group "Metallica" was mentioned. Professor Sylva offered her services in designing poster materials for education of students. It was suggested that responsible use of the network be made part of the Honor Code, particularly with reference to copyright violations because the University has a duty to actively discourage such violations.
- Review of biennial budget proposals -- Bob Loessberg-Zahl
Handout: Memo from Harry Matthews to AC4 members, dated April 4, 2000.
Harry Matthews introduced Bob Loessberg-Zahl to present the biennial budget proposals. Bob reported that of 40+ biennial budget proposals received, 4 had information technology components that the AC4 is asked to review and comment on by Dr. Grey.
- Computer Science: Academic Support
Biswanath Mukherjee presented the request from the College of Engineering to augment staff resources to support faculty and students in Computer Science. The existing allocation of 4 FTE to support the program was insufficient and 3 additional FTE were necessary to support teaching and research functions.
The council asked if graduate students could provide this support. Graduate students were unavailable since all were working on research projects of the department. The council commented that this request should be an annual budget item as opposed to a biennial budget project since it represented a workload issue. Many council comments reflected on the service role that computer science had become and the need for greater student access to computer science courses. The sense of the council was that the program had merit but it was difficult to assess priority in a short time.
- L&S Chemistry Virtual Lab
Peter Rock presented the proposal to use on-line video service to allow increased usage of the chemistry labs. The proposal is to provide the students with pre-lab video presentations over the Internet, freeing-up time for the scheduling of four chemistry labs per day instead of three, thus increasing lab utilization in preparation for the anticipated growth in enrollment.
The council sense was that this project had merit. Questions from the council focused on the impact of network bandwidth and safety if students viewed videos too early.
Council questions focused on the number of potential students that might use this service and the data management requirements.
- Arts Vision Initiative
Dean Elizabeth Langland presented the Arts Vision Initiatives. The project addresses an interdisciplinary approach to include digital technology in the arts creation process. The project proposes staffing and equipment for a center for technocultural studies to support research in digital studies, hypertext/hypermedia, and programs in visual culture.
It was suggested that the Library and IT create a database of campus projects is these areas and make them available on the Web, building on the Odyssey program.
- Student Affairs, e-recruitment
Vice Chancellor Carol Wall presented the e-recruitment project. The project is a web portal (vortal) to address recruiting of potential students starting at Grade 11. The project is necessary due to the trend in potential students not selecting UC Davis as their number 1 choice.
Action: Chair Matthews will write notes about the projects and ask AC4 members to comment via email. If the response is favorable, the recommendations will be summarized in a memo and reviewed by the AC4 Steering Committee before they are submitted to Dr. Grey. If the comments are controversial, Harry will decide how to proceed.
The meeting adjourned at 3:35 pm.
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