Arts & Sciences Computer
Committee
Minutes
March 2, 2001
DiLoreto 202
Present: Don Adams (Philosophy), Mike Alewitz (Art), Paul Altieri (Economics),
Don Blume (English), Tom Burkholder (Chemistry), Glynis Claffey
(Communication), Bruce Day (Sociology), Thom Delventhal (Theatre), Scott Evon (Information Services),
Robert Glarner (Music), John Harmon (Geography), Carol Jones (A&S), Dan Larose ( Math),
Peter LeMaire (Physics), Amy Magno (IS), Clayton Penniman (Biology), Sherry
Pesino (Media Center), Lisa Ricci (IS), Roy Temple (Media Center), Bob Yanckello
(IS).
The meeting was called to order by Tom Burkholder at 2:00 p.m.
- Motion to approve the minutes of February 2, 2001
(Penniman/Harmon). Approved.
- Announcements. Students will register for courses in April using
the Banner Web Client. There will be a training session for all
faculty to try out the same system that the students will be using
to register for their courses. That session will be on Friday March
30 from 2:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m.
- Computer inventory update. Computer inventories should be returned
to Paul Altieri. Please be certain that the CCSU tag numbers for all
of your computers are correct.
Tom Burkholder introduced Bob Yanckello as the acting CIO. Bob and
Amy Magno provided some information about the faculty computer
upgrade policy. New Macs are equipped with CD-RW's. Those with
existing Macs can purchase an external drive with OE money. The
latest PCs are 933 machines, with 256 MB Ram and 20 MB HDD. The
question of keeping old computers for part-time faculty, student
workers and grad assistants was raised. Bob was open to the
possibility, but he would want to put some limits on how many old
computers a department could retain. Amy reminded everyone that she
would like to take all unused computers and computer equipment off
their hands. Please call facilities management to get someone to
pick up your equipment.
Bob announced that representative from Athene Consultants will be
back on campus March 21 or 22. This is during the spring break.
Unfortunately, it is the only time that all of the major
participants are available to meet.
- Roy talked about the new classroom systems. They will be basically
the same as the existing units, but there will be a desktop machine,
rather than a laptop in the rack. The monitor will be on the top of
the rack and the Elmo will be moved to a table next to the unit.
There will be 12 new classroom installations. The locations are as
follows:
HB 262
HK 112
EW 214 Projector Only (Journalism Lab)
EW 308
EW 203
FD 109
FD 314
FD xxx History
HW 21 (or 109)
NC 523 or 519 Lemare
NC 236, 232, 210 or 209
HB 336 Language Lab
The Media Center will be offering a series of workshops for faculty
and administrators. You can view a description of the workshops and
sign up at:
http://149.152.96.96/FMPro?-db=workshopsspring01&-lay=Web&-format=new2.htm&-view
- Clayton Penniman discussed a proposal to bring WebCT to campus to
support our classroom endeavors (not for online courses). He wants
to purchase the software, hardware and hire an "academic
technology fellow" to help train faculty. Bob Yanckello was
receptive to the idea and seemed willing to provide the server. Some
questions were raised about changes that might be made at CSU. Bob
felt that we should go ahead with this initiative, regardless of
what CSU decides to do. He would like to see summer training of
faculty on using this new system.
Scott Evon described the new Citrix server that IS is getting
ready to install. This is a server that can be accessed from any
computer, Mac or PC, with a web browser. The program will run on the
server, but you will be able to control the program from your
computer. The prime purpose is so that people with Macs will
be able to run the full Banner client. This would also allow us to
use some programs at home. He wants to know what applications we
would like to have, especially PC applications that cannot be run on
a Mac.
The system office purchased Radius, a software program that replaces
the dialin that we now have at 356-3500. To access our campus
network with this new software, you will need to add two backslashes
to your domain name\username.
\\ccsu_comp_srv\username rather
than ccsu_comp_srv\username
- Paul Altieri asked the committee to consider the proposal for a
campus technology committee that will be presented to the Senate on
Monday. There has been some criticism of the proposal due to the
large size of the proposed committee. The members of the Arts &
Sciences committee felt that the size was commensurate with the
expected importance of the committee. They felt that it would rank
in importance with Curriculum, Graduate Studies and Academic
Standards. Those committees are as large or larger than the proposed
group.
- Carol Jones raised the issue of support after 4:30 p.m. We have an
extensive evening program. Evening support should be available when
systems fail.
- The meeting was adjourned at 3:20 p.m.
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