Technology Committee
Minutes for August 9, 2004
In attendance: Bonnie Borenstein; Harriet Eskildensen; Steve Dodson; Kathleen Kirkpatrick;
Nancy Kutcher; Rene Prado; Rainer Wachalovsky; Derek Wilson
I.
Minutes
a. The Minutes from the August 2, 2004 meeting were approved without revision and will
be posted.
II.
Action Items
a. Completed Items
III.
Action:
IV.
Action:
i. Bonnie sent Board goals to Committee
ii. Deb documented and distributed priority criteria
iii. Deb reserved rooms for future meetings
Criteria for Setting Tech Plan Priorities
a. The list of criteria noted in the Minutes for August 2 were reviewed, moderately
changed and accepted. It was decided that Bonnie would design a chart for
parsing each recommendation in the draft plan against the criteria as a way to
determine the priority of each recommendation.
Bonnie to design “criteria” chart and email to Committee members.
Policies
a. In addition to the policies listed on the Agenda, more were added. It was noted
that some areas may become subsets of other areas. For example, policy relating
to “Spam” may ultimately be included in an email policy.
b. To date the list of areas identified as needing policy are:
i. Acceptable Use
ii. Information Access
iii. Security (data deletion, privacy, etc.)
iv. Equipment Roll-over
v. Accessibility
vi. Standard Equipment
vii. Spam
viii. Email
ix. Storage and Archiving
x. Course Development and Ownership
xi. Posting of Class Materials
xii. Rights and Restrictions
xiii. Web Posting
xiv. Purchasing and Licensing
xv. Software Upgrade
c. Rainer reported that CENIC, the District’s Internet provider, has acceptable use
policies and other policies that he will share with the Committee.
Rainer to email Committee members CENIC policies.
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d. It was decided that various members of the Committee will research and report
back their findings about tech policies developed at other community colleges, as
follows:
i. Kathleen – Santa Rosa JC, Napa, & Rio Honda
ii. Derek – Olone, DeAnza & CSM
iii. Harriet – DVC
iv. Nancy – Mt SAC & Palomar
v. Steve – West Valley
vi. Bonnie – Chaffee & San Marcos
vii. Rainer – Butte
Action: Committee members will research tech policies at community colleges noted above and
report back.
V.
Tech Plan
a. Bonnie reminded the Committee that a draft of the Tech Plan will be presented as
an Information Item at the next Board meeting on August 31 and that the
Committee needed to decide who would present it. She will submit a cover page
as soon as possible to insure that it is agendized. Copies of the draft need to be
available to Board members no later than August 23.
Action: Bonnie to submit Cover Sheet for Board Information Item for August 31 meeting.
b. The draft also will be shared with College Council at their August 26th meeting
when representatives of each governance group will be asked to garner feedback
on it from their constituencies.
Action: Nancy will arrange to put the Tech Plan on the Agenda for College Council meeting on
August 26th.
VI.
Options for alternative systems to support curriculum and course data
a. After some discussion about our HP 3000 system and that used by Santa Rosa, it
was decided that Derek would work with Ingrid, Mike Ransom, and Rainer to see
if it is possible to develop a plan to utilize/implement Santa Rosa’s curriculum
system at the College. If it is possible to develop a plan, they will present it to the
Tech Committee for endorsement.
VII. “Edu” change
a. After some discussion of the philosophical and technical issues surrounding a
change of the College’s domain name from “marin.cc.ca.us” to
“collegeofmarin.edu,” Bonnie made the following motion and Nancy seconded:
Motion:
The College should make its email and web address available
additionally under “collegeofmarin.edu.”
b. The motion passed 7 to 1 with no abstentions.
c. It was decided that Bonnie would send a memo from the Tech Committee to Dr.
White recommending that the College re-direct its address to collegeofmarin.edu
as soon as it is feasible to do so.
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Action: Bonnie to send Dr. White a memo regarding the Committee’s motion about the “edu”
name change.
VIII. Next Meeting
a. The next meeting will be Wednesday August 18 at 3:00pm.
b. Carryover items
i. Review Draft
ii. Determine plan to collect and integrate feedback on Draft plan.
iii. Firm up plans for presentation of Draft to College Council and Board
iv. Discuss inclusion of reports from other areas
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