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Minutes of the Technology Council
Monday, March 6, 2006

Members Present:  Sharon Dimmer, Steve Dutch, Scott Hildebrand, Sue Keihn, David Kieper, Dan McIver, Erik Mims, Kathy Pletcher, Dean Rodeheaver, Meir Russ.  Members not present: Fritz Erickson, Fergus Hughes, E. Nicole Meyer, Tim Sewall,  Jan Thornton

The meeting was called to order at 10:00 am. 

Minutes of the February meeting were approved by consensus.

Final Review of IT 2007 Action Plan.   The Council approved draft three of the action plan with the following modifications: 

  • add action 1.8 regarding faculty research (Meir will provide language)
  • add 3.18 on ticketing systems (Dave will provide language)
  • add “co-curricular” to objective 3.4
  • identify which action items are completed at this time

The action plan does not identify costs.  It is assumed that all items that say “will do” or “implement” have resources allocated to the project by the appropriate division.  Where there is uncertainty regarding funds for implementation, the action item says “explore.”  An “explore” action item is one that will be researched for feasibility and availability of resources before the campus commits to implementation.

The next steps for the IT 2007 Action Plan are:  review by Administrative Forum, review by the Leadership Team and then the Cabinet.  When the Cabinet is comfortable with the document it will be forwarded to governance groups for a final review before it is formally adopted as a campus plan.  

Student Technology Survey.  The Council received summary results from the student technology web survey that was conducted in early February.  Erik Mims provided a summary report of the student comments, which had been compiled by the SGA executive secretary.   Overall the results showed a high degree of satisfaction with technology services, applications, and computer access.  Of the 1011 students responding to the survey 93% percent were satisfied or very satisfied with the Library system and 92% were satisfied or very satisfied with Desire2Learn.  Satisfaction with the SIS modules ranged from 94% (access to grades) to 86% for degree progress.  While 93% of the students said they were satisfied or very satisfied with the number of computers in the General Access Lab, only 78% were satisfied or very satisfied with the number of computers in the Library and only 73% were satisfied with the number of computers in the Community Center.  Students were satisfied with the access hours to the computer labs- only 8% indicated they would like the hours to be changed.  In terms of ownership 70% reported owning a desktop and 45% reported owning a laptop.  Clearly a number of students have more than one computer.  Also, 27% reported owning an iPOD.  Only 3% reported owning a tablet PC and 10% reported owning a PDA.  In terms of cell phones 86% of the students reported owning a cell phone and 24% reported owning a cell phone with Internet access.   The student comments were helpful in identifying areas for improvement such as:  more computers in the library, more project rooms, better signs to identify location of computer labs, more training, more kiosks, and more wireless.  Results of the student technology survey will be made available to the campus on a web site.  The web site will also include information on how we will be addressing the concerns expressed by students.

ECAR Student Survey.  The survey was approved by the IRB and is scheduled for April.  This is a national survey instrument developed by EDUCAUSE to survey freshman and seniors on their use of and attitudes toward computer technology in the learning environment.  It is an electronic survey that will be sent to all freshman and seniors via email. 

Annual Technology Forum.  The forum is scheduled for Tuesday, April 25 in the 1965 room.  The tradition is to have two one hour sessions back-to-back to allow as many people as possible attend.  Steve Dutch suggested that the sessions be scheduled 8:15-9:15 and 9:30-10:30 to accommodate faculty teaching schedules.  The Council agreed to those times.  The topics to be covered at the forum include: the IT 2007 Action Plan, the faculty instructional technology survey, the student technology survey(s) and technology changes for 2006/07.   

Telecommunications Policy.  Discussion of the telecommunications policy was postponed to the next meeting.

The next meeting will be March 27.  The meeting adjourned at 11:00.

Respectfully Submitted,

Kathy Pletcher, Chair

 

 

 

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