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Computing Steering Committee
(AcCSC) Minutes of Meetings: Present: Bauman, Cossey, Davis, Keller, Klein, Lesh, Smith; Guest: Andrew McCabe, President, Student Forum Review of last meeting's minutes IT issues for students. Today's meeting was devoted to a discussion with Andrew McCabe about IT issues of interest to students. 1. Campus calendar http://campuslifecalendar.union.edu/ The Student Forum has set this calendar up. Rules and event submission instructions are at the web site. We discussed the best way to incorporate student calendar needs into the R-25 calendar when it becomes available for wider use. We looked at the Campus Life calendar, and at the Middlebury implementation of R-25.
2. Blackboard system: http://online.union.edu/. Not discussed. 3. Class registration / faculty advising / Portfolios. Andrew indicated that students would very much like to register for classes online. Dave C. indicated that we have the technical capability to do that, but that we would need to create procedures for faculty, students, and staff to follow. Doug noted that we will be discussing this next week. Dave, Penny, Dave R., and Seyffie M (from AAC) discussed online registration two weeks ago, at AAC's request. We will keep Student Forum in the loop on planning for this. In the meantime, Dave C. noted that ITS is preparing a pilot implementation of card-course signup which could eventually replace the home-grown systems that some departments have been using. Examples:
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Cable TV / International Channels 5.
Computer and network access
Generally no major issues here; some web pages do not load on the public access thin client machines; probably because there is content filtering on those machines. Josh asked that the library look into the functionality of the computers in their reference area; he says they are inordinately slow, and some of the keyboards have sticking keys. Doug and Kathryn suggested that there could be more than one web-browsing machine in the basement. The one machine is often tied up, sometimes for extended periods. 6.
Printing - how can we control the costs associated with printing? 7. E-mail / Webmail: https://idol.union.edu/horde/imp/ Students generally happy with webmail; it is being used more since it is linked from the new oncampus page. 8.
Copyright issues and other rules for computer use / Policies We reviewed the College policy of fully cooperating with law enforcement; students and College employees should be aware of policies posted at the address above. 9. Career development and the e-Recruiting system - not discussed. 10. Web portal: http://oncampus.union.edu Tom S. invited comment on this portal page. Andrew said that he would bring it up to Forum members. We agreed that the AcCSC and the Student Forum would remain in closer touch to convey any IT information and issues back and forth.
Next meeting: Feb. 25, 2003, 1:30 PM, ITS conference room |
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