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Technology Council Minutes
Monday, December 15, 2008
3:00 – 4:00 pm, CL 735

Present:  Kate Burns, Sharon Dimmer, Scott Furlong, Sue Keihn, David Kieper, Kaoime Malloy, Dan McIver, Uwe Pott, Kathy Pletcher (chair), Tim Sewall, Zach Volez
Not present: Lisa DeLeeuw, Fritz Erickson, Scott Hildenbrand, Shaun Ragany,
Guests: Diane Blohowiak, Paula Ganyard

  1. Called to order by the chair at 3:00 pm
    Agenda amended to add Computer Lab Plans as the first item.

  2. Approval of the Minutes:
    Minutes were approved with changes to those in attendance.

  3. Computer Lab Plans
    Diane shared student lab analysis information with the council, including updated fall 2008 data.  Council decided on the following:
    • We will not be leasing new computers for next year due to no need for them.
    • Wood Hall Lab is currently at 50 and since no class scheduled in that room is over 45 it has been suggested to remove 5 computers.  Follow-up with Dean Erickson and business faculty is needed before this is finalized.
    • Computer Science Lab has the correct number of computers at this time.
    • Dry Lab (Field Biology Lab) will be left as is for this year at the suggestion of Dean Furlong.
    • Lab Sciences 102 is currently at 13 computers.  Consideration was giving to upgrading to 25 computers including an instructor machine and projector.  For now the 5 machines from Wood Hall will be put into this lab, if that removal is approved.
    • The future process for making lab changes will be as follows:
      Coordinator of User Support  > Dean > Faculty > Dean > Coordinator of User Support > Technology Council

  4. Student Representative 
    Shaun Ragany has resigned from the Technology Council and a new student representative will be named. 

  5. Technology Survey – Results
    The Council reviewed the technology survey results with Diane Blohowiak.  Some of the issues could be rolled into the new IT Plan and that possible focus groups could be held to get feedback on campus-wide and division specific IT needs that need to get into the plan. 

    The Council felt it was important to get the full analysis of the technology surveys out to the campus and be accompanied by a list of  items that are being addressed:
    • Need to attend to the Kisosk stations.  Plan is to make them true kiosks by setting up auto login.  Applications like Word would be removed to ensure that these are for quick access only.  A cleaning schedule has been setup as well.
    • GBshare update is coming which should provide a more user friendly interface.
    • Remote lab and Remote desktop has been causing issues for people and it has been discovered that the latest version of Java is causing the problem.  It also works better if Firefox is used.
    • Firefox causes a caching issue on the M drives, so until that can be resolved Firefox will not be a browser that is offered to users.
    • Duplex printing will be looked into and it will start in the GAC labs, but pricing will remain the same since most of the cost to print is the cost of the ink not the paper.
    • Wireless was a big issue on the survey and is very expensive to get it campus-wide.

  6. Other Business
    No other business

  7. Adjourned by chair at 3:55 pm

 

 

 

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