Technology Committee
MEETING MINUTES – 2/1/2013
Attendees:
Lee Anderson, Wade Hampton, Peter Miller, John Molt, Amanda Sagan, Jeffrey Wallace, Chris Winslow
Guests: Beverly Bavaro for Cal Anderson
Discussion:
a.
Status of projects funded by Technology Fee carryover account: These ‘shovel-ready’ projects were approved by
the Technology committee to provide among other things: a 25% contingency fund, software licensing for the facultychose Canvas learning management system, and improve the classroom teaching environment by upgrading the
multimedia teaching lecterns, adding room controllers for the multimedia equipment, and upgrading the DE video
conference rooms.
b.
Document imaging at TMCC: Peter Miller gave an overview.
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Currently student records and financial aid data are being scanned and stored in our core system
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New document image client (Unity) has been installed and pushed to the college as a whole so that if needed,
employees will have access.
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Although transcripts are imaged, the next focus is transcript and transfer credit equivalency processing. A
button will be made available in PeopleSoft that would retrieve student transcripts from the document imaging
system
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Workflow processing for security approval sheets and contracts also in the works; other paper intensive
processes such as Grade Change will eventually be reviewed. Over time, existing processes will be phased in
to Workflow when appropriate to create more efficiency and effectiveness for the college and support staff.
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c.
Once document imaging processes are fully defined, then future training will be developed around it.
Information security procedures review. Feedback requested on the following security procedures that were
developed by the college’s security officer, the NSHE security officer, and technology professionals from the IT
department:
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TMCC-owned computers connected to the administrative network will automatically have a screen lock enabled
after 30 minutes of inactivity. Committee members suggest reducing this to 10 minutes.
Shortened (‘tiny’) URLs are discouraged from use since they hide the real URL. Beverly Bavaro investigated if
hoving over the URL would reveal the real URL. This is only true if the shortened URL was created on the
tinyurl.com site. Since there are multiple sites available to create shortened URLs there’s no way to enforce
this. Therefore the original statement stands.
Due to time constraints, committee members are asked to provide feedback on the following
proposed procedures by Feb 8, 2013:
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FERPA uses vague language such as “reasonable methods” to safeguard information and is purposely nonspecific regarding the use of technology methods and standards. FERPA does not provide information on the
use of e-mail and the Family Privacy Compliance Office (FPCO) has yet to provide any official direction for the
FERPA compliant use of e-mail. As such, we must apply a set of reasonable guidelines that should be followed
when communicating FERPA related information over E-mail.
• If there is a need to transmit a file with Personally Identifiable Information (PII) to another TMCC
employee, use the Secure Information Transfer System (SITS) accessible via the TMCC Citrix system.
https://citrixweb.tmcc.edu/Citrix/XenApp/site/default.aspx
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TMCC is an EEO/AA (equal opportunity/affirmative action) institution and does not discriminate on the basis of sex, age, race, color, religion, physical or mental disability, creed, national origin, veteran status, sexual
orientation, genetic information, gender identity, or gender expression in the programs or activities which it operates.
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No personally identifiable information (PII) should be included in the subject line of any e-mail, screen
shots, IM or “chat”. If a subject line contains a Social Security Number or NSHE ID number, then a
violation of FERPA has occurred. Social Security Numbers should never be sent via email.
• The NSHE ID, and student name can be sent within the body of an email and as an attachment.
• E-mails containing FERPA related information may only be sent to the “official” NSHE or Institution e-mail
address of the authorized recipient (nshe.nevada.edu, unr.edu, unlv.edu, tmcc.edu, washoeschools.net
etc.). FERPA related e-mail may not be sent or forwarded to a personal address such as one associated
with Gmail, Hotmail, or Yahoo. Emails containing FERPA related information must be deleted when the
task/subject is completed.
• Do not email or publicly post grades. An unauthorized release of grades to someone who is not a school
official, can result in the institution being found to be in violation of FERPA.
• All e-mail must include a disclaimer or tagline: “The information transmitted is intended only for the person
or entity to which it is addressed and may contain confidential and/or privileged material. Any review,
retransmission, dissemination or other use of, or taking of any action in reliance upon, this information by
persona or entities other than the intended recipient is prohibited. If you received this in error, please
contact the sender and delete the material from any computer.”
TMCC-owned mobile devices will have a screen password enforced; personal mobile devices that access TMCC
data should have a screen password enabled. NOTE: The only type of password that is enforceable is a PIN or
password only; face unlock/swipe type passwords are not considered secure for enterprise. Technology for
detecting fingerprint screen passwords is not available.
Backups of data created in the Google Apps for Education environment on the tmcc.edu administrative network
will be made from the creation of the data and is available as long as the data storage quota is not exceeded.
VPN/Remote Access: If anyone is provided remote access to your TMCC-owned resource for valid, businessrelated purposes, users are responsible for ensuring PII or sensitive information is not exposed.
d.
An issue related to Part-time Faculty access to PeopleSoft was discussed and will be researched by John Molt.
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Next Meeting: Mar 1, 2013, SIER 201. Focus on Administrative Computing topics – namely RAP technology
requests, IT restructure.
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TMCC is an EEO/AA (equal opportunity/affirmative action) institution and does not discriminate on the basis of sex, age, race, color, religion, physical or mental disability, creed, national origin, veteran status, sexual
orientation, genetic information, gender identity, or gender expression in the programs or activities which it operates.