Beyond 2000 Committee
May 13, 2005
Meeting Notes
PRESENT
Bill Post, Debbie McElroberts, Carolyn Dusenbury, Kathy Fernandes, Charlie Crabb, Bill Jones,
John Roussell, Brian Oppy, Brooke Banks, Kim Williams, Linda Post, Mike Spiess, Cindy Jorth,
Rapti de Silva, Don Graham
PORTAL DISCUSSION
We met our initial goal to have the new portal up and running to do Fall registration. The old
portal becomes the non-primary portal once the transcripts feature comes up. We are still
working on some PeopleSoft related issues. Another application under way is having the ability
to check Wildcat Card balances on the portal. Jerry Ringel will send out a draft of the
applications for members to review and provide input. In the future we will be focusing on
applications relevant to staff.
LEARNING MANAGEMENT SYSTEM
The Strategic Review Committee has made its recommendation—WebCT Vista. We are
currently negotiating with the vendor on the price schedule. We’ll enter a three-year contract
with WebCT Vista initially.
The Web CT Annual Conference is in San Francisco in July this year which is a huge advantage
for faculty if they want to attend sessions.
By October/November faculty can ask to have their students go into Vista to try it out. Some
courses will be migrated by January 2006 for the spring semester. Full migration will take place
in the summer of 2006.
CONTENT MANAGEMENT SYSTEM
A campus committee looked into content management systems and has made a product
recommendation. The cost of the software will be $70,000 to $90,000. The implementation will
begin on a small scale in the fall for WASC and ENCATE. These projects will last at least a
year before the product goes campus wide.
CURRENT IT ISSUES
Funding Information Technology is usually one of the top five IT issues for universities. As our
campus move way way beyond 2000, we need to come to a consensus about what our top 10 IT
issues are and how we will fund various services and projects. Classroom technology funding is
an issue. We need to survey faculty to get an idea of their expectations of classroom technology
on campus. Facilities Management needs to be involved in the discussion as well as faculty and
INF staff. Many times the lighting or some other room feature is involved.
Security and identity management will continue to be at the forefront of IT issues. Brooke
Banks has been re-assigned as a full-time Information Security Officer.
We have to determine how to manage CMS after the initial implementation. As far as strategic
planning, we are doing great compared to our peers.
Faculty development, support, and training are big issues for us. We continue to look at ways to
provide service to faculty when the campus is closed.
Web systems and web services will be in the forefront of IT issues in the coming year.
WAY WAY BEYOND 2000
It’s been five years since we named our technology plan Beyond 2000. It’s time to redo the plan
to fit future goals. The chair requests committee members read the current technology plan at
http://www.csuchico.edu/inf/B2000/B2000Plan011905.doc and provide feedback via e-mail.
ADJOURNMENT
The meeting was adjourned.