CCRI Governance Appendix II
Governance Council Committee Meetings
Agenda
Academic Technology Advisory Committee
Date of Agenda Posting: 10/23//14
10/24/14
Meeting Date:
1:30 PM
Meeting Start Time:
1:30 PM
Meeting Actual Start
Time:
KN4104, FL2330
Meeting Location:
Member Attendance
Committee Member Name
John Araujo
Jerry Bernardini
Maggie Burke
MaryAdele Combe
Kent Gates
Gene Grande
Cindy Hansen
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Title
Present
Notes
IT
Y/N
An example to
include: Mr. Smith
participated via
teleconference from
the Lincoln campus.
Senior Admissions
Officer, Enrollment
Services
Professor, Dept. Chair,
Engineering &
Technology
N
2Yr
Assistant Professor, DL
Coordinator
Manager – User
Services, IT
Budget Specialist II,
Business Office
Senior Information
Technician, IT
N
N/A
Y
2Yr
Y
N/A
Y
2 Yr
Associate Professor,
Biology
Y
2 Yr
2 Yr
Y
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Kay Johnson
Donna Mesolella
Jaime Nash
Bill Pellicio
Elizabeth Penta
Professor, Computer
Studies & Information
Processing
Coordinator, Academic
Affairs
Director, Training &
Development (CWCE)
Professor, Human
Services
Assistant Professor,
Library
Y
2 Yr
N
N/A
Y
N/A
Y
2 Yr
Y
Will be 20 min.
late
2 Yr
Guests in Attendance
Agenda
New Business
Agenda Item 1
 Governance Review
Notes on Discussion
MaryAdele gave a brief report on VP
Lamontagne’s Governance chair’s
meetings in May and September. VP
Lamontagne adjusted the reporting
structure of the Committees. Since
just one item came to his desk last
year from Governance, only the three
committees that create policy will
report to the President’s Council. The
remaining committees will report to
their respective VP.
ATAC along with ISAC currently
report to ITAC, which now will
report to VP Patten. MaryAdele
suggested the three committees
combine, which Dave Patten is
willing to do; or should we report
directly to VP Patten or VP
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Lamontange? Jamie suggested
remove ITAC, and have ATAC and
ISAC remain.
MaryAdele mentioned that the IT
Consultant, hired this summer to
report to the President on the state of
IT, questioned whether there was a
conflict of interest having the IT
Manager of Instructional Support
Chair the Academic Technology
Advisory Committee. He queried
whether a faculty should be chair. A
suggestion was made to have cochairs, one faculty, one IT.
Motion made by Kay Johnson to have
co-chairs, one faculty member, one
IT member. Lisa Penta seconded.
Unanimous vote.
A discussion ensued why ATAC is
under Business and Finance and not
Academic Affairs.
Motion made by Bill Pellicio to have
ATAC Committee report to VP
Lamontagne. Seconded by Jerry
Bernardini. Unanimous vote.
Jerry B. asks if we are starting over
and need to redefine our mission and
membership. MaryAdele read the
current mission statement from CCRI
Governance website. She believes VP
Lamontagne would be open to us
redefining our mission. ATAC has
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three open positions. How do we fill
them? MaryAdele will get
clarification on these issues.
Agenda Item 2
 LMS (Learning Management
System) Evaluation
MaryAdele reported on the LMS
evaluation of Canvas and the CCRI
positive faculty response to the
Lunch & Learn collaboration with
faculty colleagues from Massasoit
Community College who use the
Canvas LMS. There was quite a bit of
interest from the faculty who
attended the meeting. Next steps are
in progress to train a faculty
evaluation group who can bring a
course from Bb to Canvas. If the
evaluation group recommends
moving forward with Canvas after
that, CCRI would negotiate a formal,
paid pilot with Instructure, the
parent company, to run pilot courses
on Canvas.
Canvas is a cloud-based LMS (hosted
off campus) that is more intuitive,
and easier to manage and support
than Bb. It is more costly in dollars,
but less so in human and system
resources, and reliability.
Agenda Item 3
 On-line Course Accessibility
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MaryAdele reported on the possible
enrollment of a hearing impaired
student in online courses next
summer. This put an important focus
on CCRI’s compliance readiness for
online courses. Senior management
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is working with faculty, Disability
Services, and IT in implementing the
resources and guidelines necessary
for accessible online courses. This
requires an institutional education
and awareness program.
Agenda Item 4
 Connectivity and switch to new
wireless
Agenda Item 5
 FrontPage Server End of Life
Jerry B. expressed concern about
student connectivity as a CCRI issue.
All students need access to systems
all of the time. He also asked about
the switch to the new wireless
network by the end of the year: what
impact will it have on faculty and
students? He is concerned about the
seamless connectivity as well as
about timely communications with
the community about the impact.
Invite Anthony to come to ATAC and
explain the move away from frontpage server.
Meeting Action Items
Action
Letter to Dave & Greg re:
reporting to Academic VP
ATAC Faculty Chair or Cochair
Clarify how fill open
governance positions
Invite Anthony to next
meeting re new file
management server.
Report on status of the
wireless concerning
seamless connectivity for
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Assigned To
Deadline
MaryAdele
Deferred until we see about
filling three open positions.
MaryAdele
MaryAdele
MaryAdele
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the community.
Decisions Made
Decision 1
Decision 2
Decision 3
Meeting End
Meeting Schedule End:
Meeting Actual End:
3:00 PM
3:05
Next Meeting Date:
Next Meeting Time:
Next Meeting Location:
12/12/14
1:30
KN4104; FL2330
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