Target 2000 Technology Team Meeting
Minutes of 12/09/96
Technology Committee
Notes of: December 9, 1996 Meeting
Present: Bill Post (chair), Tom Welsh, Debbie McElroberts, Royd Weintraub, Kay
Schenk,Jeff Bell, Frederica Shockley, Beverly Taylor, Vernon Patrick, Jon Ebeling,
Chuck Worth, Melody Callan, Jim Mensching, and Dan Toy. Staff: Susan Greco
1. Baseline Proposal
Copies of our proposal to the Baseline Hardware/Software Access, Training, and User
Support Initiative were distributed. Proposals were due to the Chancellor's Office by
December 1. Campuses are to be informed of the awards by January 1. Due to our
continual planning over the last several years and our efforts with the Target 2000 Plan
much of our ground work and planning was in place for this initiative.
2. Remote Access Strategy
The remote access strategy for Target 2000 has changed. It has become apparent that if
we were to continue with our plans to provide free modems it would soon consume all
the budget each year. Therefore, we are investigating the use of a commercial provider.
Next semester we will add 30 modems to the premium modem pool which provides
access for $10/month. In the mean time we will continue work to find a commercial
provider. Communications Services is currently negotiating with a company which
appears to have some good possibilities for this solution.
Distance Education expenses and fund generation was discussed.
3. Department Discipline Labs - Matching Funds
Departments will be asked to submit proposals for funds to improve their respective
discipline based labs. The Base Line funds ($30K) will be used as a match to funds
departments are willing to commit from their own budgets. A sub-committee was
appointed to make recommendations on the proposal guidelines, criteria, and evaluative
process. The committee is as follows:
Frederica Shockley, Chair
Melody Callan
Jim Mensching
Vernon Patrick
Tom Welsch
Jerry Ringel
The sub-committee will meet on Monday, Dec. 16th at 1:00 in Butte 603.
4. Library System Award
The award for a new library system will be going to Ameritech, it is a Horizon product
and is a client server. Six companies submitted RFP's, each vendor brought their systems
to campus for previewing. The library administration and staff are very excited about the
new system.
5. Unified Information Access System (UIAS)
UIAS will be conducting pilot demonstrations for the following vendors: Ameritech,
CARL, DRA, III, and OCLC. Members of the Technology Committee were invited to
browse the demos and complete evaluation surveys for these sites. Evaluations are to be
returned to Bill Post prior to the Holiday break.
6. Faculty Computing Project (FCP)
Debbie McElroberts is working on a survey of current faculty workstations which should
be ready by first of the year. It is apparent that many faculty are just becoming aware that
they really do need new machines. As the campus moves forward with new technology
such as the new library system, more and more of the older model machines will be
limited to the resources they can access. A sub-committee was appointed to determine
how the FCP would operate this year. The sub-committee is: Debbie McElroberts, Dan
Toy, Beverly Taylor, Jeff Bell, Vernon Patrick. Debbie will call the group together in
January when the survey results are available.
7. Other
It was suggested that an additional area of focus for the Technology committee should be
how to provide more help/training/support for faculty and students.
Melody Callan discussed the SIS+ project which has been developed to assist in
acquiring more timely reports from SIS+. This is similar to what the financial
departments have implemented with Oracle and Brio. Problems are, however, that we
don't have a separate server or the licenses to do this. All of the design materials have
been sent to the Chancellor's Office and we have requested help from them so we could
just pull the information off their hardware platform. They have agreed to this for
$20,000 a year. There will be limited access to about 10 people on campus and security
will need to be established.
Next meeting will be in January. We will continue with the Monday's 1:00-3:00 time
frame.