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Computing Steering Committee
(AcCSC) Minutes of Meetings: Present: Boyer, Cossey, Keller, Klein, McFadden, Sener, Traver
Review of last meeting's minutes The Steering Committee on
Academic Computing held its first meeting of the term today. 1. ITS Summer Review. Dave C. and Diane K. reviewed activities of Information Technology Services over the summer. They included:
Click here for the full text of the report. In addition, we are
nearly ready (waiting on a vendor) to upgrade our campus internet
connection by a factor of 2.5 (from 6 MB/s to 15 MB/s). Other recent developments: - Tom M. announced that the Library has replaced about 30 public workstations with new IBM Netvista machines. - Doug K. announced that
the Sociology of Vietnam course between HWS and Union had a successful
inauguration on Monday, Sept. 3. 2. Membership.
We agreed that we will seek a temporary Humanities representative
who can meet at the appointed 1:30 Thursday hour.
We will also invite one student to join. 3. Intellectual
Property Rights. Tom M. has been researching IPR extensively, and he and Doug will
work up a draft to circulate to the Committee during this term. Fuat
speculated that this is a transitional issue.
As more and more teaching materials become electronic, the value of
any individual’s notes may diminish. 4. Departmental Web
Pages. Doug is conducting
a survey of Departmental web pages and web masters, to encourage current
and accurate information. John
and Cherrice suggested that we work with Tom S. to draw up not just
web-page templates, but a template for suggested content on Departmental
sites. 5. Printing.
With the advent of Digital Reserves in the Library, the issue of
the cost of printing supplies, especially in labs that run free printing
services, is a growing concern. We
discussed several alternatives to try to curb excessive and wasteful
printing, while being fair to students.
Cherrice suggested giving students cards with a set number of free
prints; we also discussed lowering the per-copy cost below $.10. 6. Web Advising.
We agreed that the Academic and Administrative Steering Committees
might wish to meet together later this term to begin discussing how the
Web Advising project is going, and what the next steps could and ought to
be. We should also consider conducting faculty and student focus
groups to gather more input. 7. Notebook Policy. Diane K. raised the question of insurance for College-owned notebook computers. According to Ernie Conte (via Doug), the College will not be offering lower deductibles for notebooks, so the deductible remains at $1000. The question remains, who should be responsible for that amount: the individual employee, the employee’s Department, or the College. An individual might also be covered by his/her private insurance, but that will vary by individual, and by circumstance (e.g., homeowners v. auto insurance). Dave C. will be meeting with Ernie Conte later this month and will raise the issue again. The meeting adjourned at 2:35 Next meeting: September 13, 2001, 1:30, Steinmetz 237 |
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