ITAC meeting minutes from 1/19/05


1. OIIT budget: Gary Fisk mentioned that the President said that OIIT budget
was being cut by about $120,000 in a recent Faculty Senate meeting. This is
largely money that was saved by not hiring a replacement for Anthony Ianno
and hiring a lower paid person to fill Janice Cliett's position. Jim Neale
said that he feels that OIIT should bring in grant money. OIIT will need a
director and more investment to make this possible.


2. GSW ID on student ID cards: The student ID cards have the GSW ID plus an
extra tracking number on the end. This has caused some confusion because
sometimes student think that the tracking number is part of their ID. The
committee members feel that this is a poor practice. Fisk thought there should
be a different place on the card for the tracking number. Arvind Shah said
that there could be a blank (or something) between the GSW ID and the tracking
number to make it more clear that the tracking number and the ID number are
separate. Carl Mueller said that this is a bad system but it is probably too
late to change it now. Royce Hackett said that they will work to educate
faculty and other WebCT users that students are sometimes confused when they
get their GSW ID from the ID card.


3. Online testing center: Lovely Lewis said that it is possible to arrange for
a proctored online exams. Anyone who needs a proctored exam can contact Lewis
and she will make the arrangements. Lois Oliver also does some online test
proctoring for Ecore students. Neale said that the School of Education is
already doing this on some weekends, so it may be possible to do this in
conjunction with Education. Shah said that CIS is doing proctored testing with
some tech schools. Hackett siad that we should start small, on a case by case
basis. It is unlikely that we will be able to start an online testing center
at the present time due to budget constraints.


4. Faculty computers: The status of the recent request for possible faculty
computer upgrades is unclear. OIIT submitted a computer inventory to the
administration with outdated computers. The Deans also sent lists of their
technology needs to the administration. It is uncertain what will happen to
these requests.


This discussion prompted someone to bring up the current status student
technology fee funds, which is also somewhat unclear. There may be an
additional $10,000 of student tech fee money left to be spent. The status of
this money will be more clear in a few weeks. It should be noted that these
student technology fee funds cannot be used to purchase faculty computers.


5. Webmaster: Tim Faircloth is now the webmaster/systems administrator. He has
taken over the role of webmaster from Svetlana Peltsverger.


6. SPSS licensing: Paul Shapiro bought the SPSS licenses (6 month) for Fall
using Mix Foundation money from the Psych/Soc Department. OIIT needs an invoice
stating how much was spent so they can be reimbursed. The money for these
licenses will need to be reallocated in the Fall when the licenses expire.
Faculty SPSS licenses are also a potential problem. OIIT paid for faculty
licensing for this academic year, but this will not continue next year. We
cannot do a networked version of SPSS for all faculty, as previously recommended
by ITAC, due to lack of hardware/software capabilities. UGA is currently
looking into a getting licenses for a low cost student version but this hasn't
been approved yet.


7. Hackett is working on a Tech Fee report to the BOR. He received suggestions
and feedback.


8. The committee recommended asking Darcy Schraufnagel if we could get another
student representative who is able to meet at 3:00 on Wednesdays. The appointed
student representative, Antony Ware, cannot attend at this time.


Next meeting: March 30 at 3:00 in the Morgan Hall Conference Room.


Attendance: Stephanie Harvey, Jim Neale, Ginger Perry, Vera Weisskopf, Arvind
Shah, Nancy Morris, Lovely Lewis, Gary Fisk, Carl Mueller, Steve Galatas, Royce
Hackett, and Bryan Davis.