Technology Committee
Meeting Minutes
Date: October 23, 2008
Present: Jeff Cady, Nick Chang (Interim Dean Stu Dev & Spec Svcs, guest
spkr), Alice Dieli, Steve Dunkle (IT tech,guest), Harriet Eskildsen, Mike Irvine (acting
chair), Ratnakar Nanavaty (outgoing CIO), Marshall Northcott (incoming CIO)
Absent: Win Cottle (chair/sec), Frank Crosby, (Andy Haber if he is still on the
committee?)
Next meeting: November 6, 2008, 11-12, place TBD
I.
Agenda Items
1. Nick Chang, invited by Win Cottle, spoke about Title 3 grants. They are
Federally administered, extremely competitive, available to colleges and
universities for credit classes. Nick has had a successful experience with
a five-year institutional improvement grant at City College: one for $1.7
million for technology and infrastructure, and another for instructional
labs, curriculum, and an electronic student-services education plan
application. Contra Costa College was successful with a Title 3 grant for
success of retention of basic ed students and an early alert program for
struggling students. Nick will find out if we qualify under the stipulation
that we must have an ethnic minority population over 25%. If we do, he
will also investigate how a grant would fit into our schools institutional
planning and accreditation goals. It was suggested that we look at other
schools proposal writing teams, a facilitator who can liaise with DC,
sharing responsibility with other stakeholders, etc. Ratnakar has
examples of successful grant applications.
2. We bid farewell to Ratnakar and welcome to Marshall. Marshall is under
contract to Sungard and will serve for a year as interim CIO.
3. Long discussion on Inventory status. Mike displayed projection of
inventory with updates. Mike needs to have information to present to
the Institutional Planning Committee (IPC) to forecast future needs.
Currently we are working with hardware but we will need to consider
software, peripherals, a-v, etc. Ratnakar/Marshall has sample
rollover/replacement plans for us to consider. Discussion of description
of ‘standards’ with no consensus.
4. Ratnakar handed out latest policy and procedure as worked on by
consultant and CIO. We will look at it for discussion at next meeting.
II.
Topics for next meeting:
1. Mike will report on response to our dynamic inventory from the IPC.
2. Discussion on campus-wide WiFi: Marshall would like an authentication
system rather than user name/password encryption.
3. Election of chair; Win is serving as both chair and secretary and has
offered to retain secretary responsibility.
4. Discussion on network port status within labs.
5. Continue discussion on inventory, rollover, replacement plans.
6. Review Policy and Procedure
III. Adjourned at 12:05; meeting room needed for another group.