University Senate Representatives: J. Alvares, M. Heller
 
Faculty Representatives: A. Adarkar [CHSS Faculty Rep.], Michael Davidson [CEHS Faculty Rep.], S. Shapiro [Library Faculty Rep.], R. Xing [SBUS Faculty Rep.], C. Du [CSAM Faculty Rep.]
 
Administrative Representatives (Academic Deans):  M. Mallery [Library Administrative Rep.], A.J. Kelton [CHSS Administrative Rep.], Hakeem Sanni [CEHS Administrative Rep.], Earl Harris [SART Administrative Rep.], R. Salomon [Proxy for Dean Alan Oppenheim], J. Youn [CSAM Administrative Rep.],
 
Non-voting Members Present: E. Chapel (Associate Vice President for Information Technology), R. Wolfson (Local 1904 Observer) T. Devlin (Academic Coordinator of Education Computing Network)
 
Guests:  P. Kahn, B. Hancock, T. Hoskinson
 
Absent:
A. Pemberton [SART Faculty Rep.], A. Rohman [Graduate School Administrative Rep.], D. Stevens [Undergraduate Student Rep], A. Mohiuddin [Graduate Student Rep.], V. Lilikas [Undergrad. Student Rep.],VACANT, Associate Director of Academic Technology,
 
Presiding: J. Alvares, Chair
Reporting: M. Mallery, Secretary
Distribution: ACC Web at http://frontpage.montclair.edu/acc/
Convened: 3:08 p.m. [Library Special Collections Room]
Adjourned: 4:04 p.m.
 
1. Call to Order: The meeting was called to order at 3:08 p.m.

2. Minutes: Minutes for October 10th were approved with amendments by Kelton and Chapel, and the Minutes for November 14th were approved with amendments from Heller.

3. Announcements:  Alvares announced that the ACC adjourn at 4PM so that members could attend the President’s Holiday Party in the Student Center. 

4. Reports
• Chair's Report:  Alvares introduced Charles Du as the new CSAM Faculty Representative.  The ACC members present introduced themselves.

• OIT Report: Chapel reported on the following IT initiatives:

*Campus-Wide ID (CWID) Project  - IT completed generating student CWIDs this weekend (December 11).  Students can login once with their Social Security numbers, and then the CWIDs will be the referent, and students will use the CWID as login afterward.  MSU is now in compliance with the Governor’s law on privacy. 

*Director of Academic Computing Search –  Telephone interviews are scheduled for Dec. 13th.  We have a good pool and 14 possible candidates selected. Wolfson and Salomon are on the Search Committee.  On-campus interviews will be scheduled for early in the Spring semester and will include group interviews with members from the ACC and constituent groups.  Alvares asked if candidates will be asked to show how to use technology in teaching, and Wolfson said all 14 candidates have terminal degrees and 13 have faculty rank, so we expect them to be able to teach.

*University Hall Transfer – The College of Education will be the first group to move in.  OIT will move after the holiday break beginning January 3.  The OIT staff will be located in University Hall, and the hours of operation will not change. There will be an Information Commons with 24-hour access in University Hall.  OIT is working with Karen Pennington to develop policies for the Information Commons, especially to give more support local to the users.  The move of the Technology Solution Center to University Hall will mean problems will be addressed in the privacy of cubicles with tech. support staff.

• Ad Hoc Committee Reports:

a) Learning Management Subcommittee (LMS) - Davidson (Chair) reported that LMS  met the first week of December with P. Kahn.  The BlackBoard Advisory Group (BAG) members moved to the LMS.  Membership is still not complete; one slot still needs to be filled.  One question that came up at the meeting was what happens to policies recommended by the LMS?  Alvares said that policies don’t require Senate confirmation, and Heller added that the LMS reports policy recommendations directly to Academic Affairs.  Also, Davidson noted the LMS is looking for guidance on what process to use to review alternatives to BlackBoard, such as the open source course management systems Sakai and Moodle.  The next meeting will be scheduled for early in the Spring semester. Alvares thanked Davidson for taking leadership of the LMS.

b) EDUCAUSE Membership: Kelton (Chair) reported on the EDUCAUSE Conference in Orlando which he attended at the end of October.  It was the largest turnout ever for the conference.  Sessions were on CIO issues as well as academic technology issues (for example, Diane Oblinger’s EDUCAUSE Learning Initiative). 

This year there was more emphasis on global representation at the meeting.  Kelton noted that MSU used to send more people to the conference, but this year there were only two representatives from MSU.  Is this because of funding?    Alvares noted that Deans are more generous in funding travel if a paper is presented, and he added that the process for proposing a paper to present to EDUCAUSE was easier than most national conferences.  EDUCAUSE Quarterly is looking for articles as well.  AJ Kelton sits on the Editorial Board, but he will recuse himself from consideration of MSU submissions.  Kelton announced that the Poster Session deadline is the end of January for EDUCAUSE 2006, which will be held in Dallas.

5. Ongoing Business:

• Anti-Spyware Applications: Chapel noted that IT is looking at Sophos as a possible anti-spyware application vendor for the campus in response to the ACC Motion on Spyware, approved at the May 2005 meeting, where the ACC requested that the Office of Information Technology “investigate the purchase and deployment of active anti-Spyware software for all computer users at MSU.” 

Heller asked if IT could look at other vendors than Sophos.  Chapel noted that IT could look at other vendors, but we need more substantial discussion regarding the advantages and downsides of single source vendors.   Heller also said that current virus scanning for email was doing a great job, but could we have spam filtering as well?  Chapel said that spam filtering was a different topic.  Alvares said that the ACC would discuss spam filtering at a future meeting.

• TV/VCR Replacements:
After discussion about the approximately 14 units that are in disrepair on campus and the need for working units for classes that show videos, Youn proposed a motion, which was discussed and approved with the following text:

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Whereas TV/VCR units are aging and not cost-effective to replace, be it resolved that MSU should investigate the replacement of these units with equivalent component systems, for example, projectors, speakers, audio amps, VCR, etc.
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6. New Business:

• Discussion on Outsourcing IT: Alvares deferred discussion until January meeting so that members can attend President Holiday Party.

7. Adjournment: The meeting was adjourned at 4:10 PM.