Academic Information Technology Committee
April 21, 2003
Minutes
Attending: Mike Andrews (COE), Jason Ball (for Dick Newman), Judy Barlow
(SOM), Donald Dement (CTLE), Bill Gabrenya (Psychology), Linda Khan
(Library), Celine Lang (Information Services), Steve Lazarus (COE), Dee Dee
Pannell (ACS/SCT), Rick Tankersley (CSLA), Kurt Winkelmann (CSLA), and
Mary Bonhomme (SEGS), Chair
Absent: Bob Schuster (SOA), and Jay Wilson (ADITC)
Minutes – The minutes from the March 17 meeting were approved as
distributed.
ITEC – No Report
ADITC – Did not meet this month
ACS – Report attached.
Vice President for IT – Jason reported on the next generation of networks.
Florida Tech has joined the Florida consortium that is working on building a
regional network. A 2.5 gigabit connection to Jacksonville is planned.
Old Business – The committee completed the review of the Academic Initiative
proposals. Preference was given to software requests that provided
interdepartmental benefit. The following requests were selected for funding:
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Interactive Physics software for Physics Lab 1, submitted by Jim Gering
AutoCAD software for Olin Engineering Labs, submitted by Dr. Ashok
Pandit
MATLAB for Olin Engineering Labs, submitted by Dan Simpson
Macromedia Studio MX for student access, submitted by Dr. Judy Barlow
Internet Data Collection software, submitted by Dr. Lisa Steelman
New Business – A request to place the Faculty Summer Institute (SI) on the
Faculty and Staff web page was approved. It was also approved to have the
ACITC awards posted following the faculty SI. There was a discussion of the
ACITC retreat scheduled for May 1 at the Hilton. The top priorities selected for
the agenda were:
1. Five Year Plan for academic use of technology
2. Establish Time Line for Faculty Mini-grants
3. ACITC presence on the web
Mary will email the agenda to the committee.
After discussion regarding the posting of PDFs , with regards to copyright, on the
web, the committee recommended that the web committee investigate and
include copyright language in the web policy for posting proprietary PDFs on web
sites.
Next Meeting: The ACITC retreat is scheduled for May 1, at the Hilton Rialto
(subsequently changed to Crawford, 7th floor).
Submitted by: Dee Dee Pannell, Recorder
ACITC Report from IT
April 21, 2003
Web Services and the Web Advisory Board – Development work is ongoing with the
Institutional Planning and Effectiveness and SACS websites. The Faculty Profiles
database is expected to be in test by the end of the month.
The Committee will be reviewing Content Management and Portal software solutions
over the summer.
The IT web site has been redesigned to offer better navigation and self services
http://it.fit.edu/ .
The Applied Computing Center – Congratulations to manager Nikki Hoier for winning
the first Student Employee Supervisor of the Year award and also to network
administrator, Sunil Patel, for winning one of two $500 awards as Student Employee of
the Year. The Office of Student Employee provided a nice party to celebrate.
The Center continues to provide video and audio project support. Staff participated in
two more grant proposals with Dr. Jon Shenker for a total of $110,000. Two video clips
were created for Life Sciences for presentation at the University of Florida.
The Center is also supporting the new digital student club, Digital Domain. Dr. Iver
Duedall will be the faculty advisor. The purpose of the organization is to find and utilize
special talents that Florida Tech students have to offer and use them to benefit the
college. It will focus on skills such as video editing, filming, audio editing, audio creation,
special effects, and 3D animation. This club will promote the Florida Tech campus to
businesses, students, prospective students, and alumni while being able to have the
members learn and/or enforce their creative skills.
The club will also be capturing all its own video with digital video cameras and will be
making its own music as to avoid copy write laws that get in the way.
In an effort to improve computing resources in the ACC, motherboards have been
replaced in the older Dell PCs and 5 new Dells have been received and are in the
process of being configured and installed.
System Services - Staff are working with SEGS to provide Florida Tech email services
to the Virtual Graduate Center students. Currently enrolled students will be the first
group to receive this service. This is the first phase in establishing name@fit.edu as the
official university email address. One hundred fifty eight accounts have been created.
An email broadcast list was created for Student Affairs to distribute an informational
message to all students regarding Operation Iraq.
Scanning – Faculty and staff are reminded to check with Judy Lipofsky regarding
scanning projects if there is any question regarding currency of scanning forms.
ACITC Services – Distributed congratulation and regret letters to all Faculty
Development proposal participants. Posted Academic Initiative announcement to
facforum. Collected and distributed requests to committee.
Services summary for March: Web Consults - 54, Other Consults - 108