Arts & Sciences Computer
Committee
Minutes
March 3, 2000
Willard 005
Present: Paul Altieri (Economics), Louis Auld (Modern
Languages), Tom Baaken (Criminology and CJ), David Blitz (Honors
Program), Tom Burkholder (Chemistry), Jim Conway (Psychology), Scott Erardi (Media Center), Scott Evon
(Info.
Services), Robert Glarner (Music), John Harmon (Geography), Dan Larose ( Math),
Amy Magno (Info. Services), Peter LeMaire
(Physics)/ES), Cora Marshall (Art), Brian O'Connell (Computer Science),
Sherry Pesino (Media Center), John Rutherford (Library), Rae Schipke (English),
Glenn Sunshine (History), Roy Temple (Media Center), Marc Triebwasser (Political Science).
The meeting was called to order at 2:05 p.m.
- The minutes of February 4, 2000 were approved.
- Announcements. The Library now offers JSTOR journal service. It
includes 117 titles on line.
The CSU Academic Computing Conference will be held on Saturday,
April 15 on the CCSU campus.
- Paul Altieri distributed a list of faculty whose computer leases
will expire before the end of the academic year. All of these
computers will be replaced in the next few months. He asked that
each department check their department computers to be certain that
no eligible faculty member was omitted from the list.
- Scott Evon reported on the campus server policy. The main issue is
security. He has sent a report to each person running a server which
lists the security problems on that connection. The IS department is
prepared to provide information and help for users to make their
servers secure. If faculty members wish to move their webs to a
university server, space is available.
Scott also announced a few new initiatives from the IS department. A
campus-wide search engine is on line which covers all of the web
addresses on campus. It is accessible from the CCSU homepage. A
FrontPage tutor will be available for installation over the network
to help users learn how to create web pages with FrontPage. A campus
notification system will be sent out next week. A small program will
run in the background on each PC. It will open when the user logs
onto the computer and at 4 hour intervals if there are updates to
view.
- The proposed e-mail policy was
discussed. A few minor changes were made. The name was changed
to "Faculty Policy for Mass E-Mail Communication," and
line 3 was amended to include "and events on campus." The
text of the document is online.
Some questions were raised. What happens if we approve this policy?
It would be in effect for the School of Arts and Sciences. What is
the policy for eliminating an entire sublist? If the content is
illegal, the list can be deleted. What should we do about appointing
a faculty member to "chide and scold" members who abuse
list privileges? We'll face that when the need arises. Should there
be a university-wide moderated list? That is beyond the scope of
this committee.
The measure was passed.
- The proposal for a restructuring of academic computing, possibly
as a Senate subcommittee was discussed. Any committee of this nature
would be advisory. The main purpose would be to provide information
and faculty feedback to the campus CIO and others involved in making
educational technology decisions. The Arts and Sciences Computer
Committee provides this function for our School. The problem is that
the other schools do not have a comparable mechanism to inform
faculty on computer issues. The Committee decided that this is not
an appropriate issue for this body. We have no objections to a
campus-wide or a Senate committee, and we encourage the other
schools to establish their own committees.
- The next meeting of the committee will be held on Friday, April 7, 2000 at 2:00
p.m. in the Media Center.
- The meeting was adjourned at 3:35 p.m.
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