SCFC Meeting Minutes
Thursday, March 15, 2016 1-2 PM UC 216
Present:
Voting Members:
Josef Crepeau
Martin Horejsi
Stephen Kalm
Jesse Neidigh
Wyatt Smith
Jackson Widmyer
Wesley Wohlman
Non-Voting Members:
Valerie Crepeau
Absent:
Voting Members:
Chuck Harris
Jenn Mills
Nathan Anderson*
Non-Voting Members:
Matt Riley
Barb Seekins
*Nathan Anderson is a student member of the SCFC although he does not attend most meetings due to class conflict.
Valerie Crepeau meets with Nathan after meetings to provide information and collect votes. Nathan continues to work on a
student lab project.
Review SCF Equipment Expenditure Proposal for Industrial Technology, Missoula College.
Joe Crepeau talked about this proposal and the fact that it needs some work.
About the project:
*Students designed the project and know how to use the equipment.
*Students are going to build and use the equipment.
*The equipment is for recording/providing for remote students and review.
The following concern was expressed.
*Lack of microphone system and tripods
*Missoula College has enough SCF funds available for this project and additions to this project as
well.
Joe Crepeau will work with the writer to rework the proposal for resubmission. He will also get
drawings and designs to bring to the next SCFC meeting.
The SCFC wants this project to be set up for success; it was suggested that this project might be used
as a showcase SCF project.
Approve minutes from 2/25/16 SCFC meeting. – Approved
Minutes from the 2/25/16 SCFC meeting were approved with the following change.
Two replacement student members were added to the SCFC
Jackson Widmyer replacing Isaac La’a
Wesley Wohlman replacing Christian DeCan
Progress Report on IT Lab support allocation proposal to replace student port subsidies.
IT office is getting a TAIT report of ports by number in student labs that are SCF subsidized. This
report will be provided to the network group for port review and Matt Riley will work with them on
preparing a proposal for the SCFC outlining support costs to replace the port subsidy methodology.
This will take some time, perhaps through the summer.
SCFC Website update and finalize.
The SCFC agreed that the SCFC website is mostly complete; the following are action items.
*SCFC Agendas and Minutes need to be posted – Valerie will talk with Jennifer Mills
*Post the SCF Employment and Equipment allocations memo that went out to Deans and contacts this
week.
*Post BOR memo.
*Post successful SCF equipment expenditure requests; this requires further discussion on whether
unsuccessful requests should be posted as well.
*Add link to Kaimin article regarding the robots purchased with SCF funds.
Schedule SCFC meetings Spring Semester 2016.
The SCFC agreed that the next meeting would be scheduled so that Nathan Anderson would be able to
attend and present a proposal based on the work he has been doing on student labs and SCF
employment funds. Wyatt will contact Nathan to determine some possible meeting times and send a
doodle poll to the SCFC. At that meeting future Spring Semester meeting will be scheduled. The
SCFC agreed that specific dates would be set aside for reviewing SCF equipment expenditure requests
and that a communication would go out to the Deans and other contacts informing them of the dates.
Other
Future topics will include
*New allocation model for SCF funds
*Setting meeting schedule and timelines
*Summer SCFC meetings
*Audit of what exists on this campus for technology (well defined)
Wyatt reported on the Senate meeting he attended.
*discussion on SCFC plans for moving from port subsidies to an IT lab support allocation; a lot of
interest on campus for doing away with port charges and replacing with a different model.
*interest in the SCF funded robot project