Academic Computing Committee
Meeting Minutes 
January 22, 2007
 
Members Present:
University Senate Representative: J. Alvares, R. Wolfson
 
Faculty Representatives: S. Sotillo [CHSS Faculty Rep.], C. Du [CSAM Faculty Rep], S. Shapiro [Library Faculty Rep.]
 
Administrative Representatives (Academic Deans): M. Mallery [Library Administrative Rep.], A.J. Kelton [CHSS Administrative Rep.], S. Poger [CEHS Administrative Rep.], J. Youn [CSAM Administrative Rep.], R. Salomon [SBUS Administrative Rep.], J. O’Brien (proxy for Associate Vice President for Information Technology)
 
Non-voting Members Present: E. Chapel, OIT; T. Devlin (Academic Coordinator of Education Computing Network) 
 
Guests: M. Heller, J. Minier, S. Collins
 
Absent:. R. Xing [SBUS Faculty Rep]., A. Pemberton [CART Faculty Rep.], D. Stevens [Undergraduate Student Rep], A. Mohiuddin [Graduate Student Rep.], J. Donadeu [Graduate School Administrative Rep.], VACANT [Undergrad. Student Rep.], E. Harris [CART Administrative Rep], VACANT [CEHS Faculty Rep.]
 
Presiding: M. Kasner, Chair
Reporting: M. Mallery, Secretary
Distribution: ACC Web at http://frontpage.montclair.edu/acc/
Convened: 3:10 p.m. [Library Special Collections Room]
Adjourned: 4:45 p.m.
 
1. Call to Order: The meeting was called to order at 3:10 p.m. when there was a quorum. 
 
2. Minutes: Minutes for Nov. 13th were approved with one abstention.
 
3. Announcements: Mallery announced that the Library’s new Café Diem opened on January 15th with wireless access for laptops and that the Library E-Reserves are on BlackBoard, where copyright policies are strictly enforced. 
 
4. Reports
• Chair's Report: Kasner introduced Saundra Collins of the Faculty Senate. Collins thanked the ACC membership for their service and noted that each representative has three year terms.
 
Kasner reported that he and Collins met to go over the process for how items go to the Senate for consideration from the ACC. Kasner noted that he also followed up with the Deans on filling seats on the ACC. Collins said that a call for nominations to fill expired terms will go out soon. Kasner will contact the CEHS Dean and ask that the ACC faculty representative to the ACC be elected or appointed as soon as possible. 
 
• OIT Report: Chapel reported that OIT will be participating in the ECAR study on student use of technology. MSU participates every other year, and much has changed, such as the Campus Connect Program, since Winter, 2005.
 
Chapel noted that the Lifecycle Replacement Committee had formed with 20 members from around the MSU campus. They will propose a timeframe for massive replacement of equipment. After Chapel sends Kasner dates of termination for the MSU equipment lifecycle replacement program, Kasner will send out the lifecycle replacement schedule to ACC members. All ACC faculty representatives are asked to then forward the schedule to their Chairs to announce at department meetings.
 
Chapel announced that MSU is hosting the St. Joseph’s Hospital Medical Mission for Children’s library of video content in a grant-funded program to provide health care in underserved parts of the world. MSU will use a video-on-demand program called VideoBank. February 7th is the day for the demonstration of VideoBank in OIT. Joan Ficke and Ed Chapel are the contact people for the program.
 
Chapel reported that the BlackBoard upgrade to 6.3 was completed, and external hosting continues, but next year OIT will bring Bb in-house and discontinue the ASP component. Youn noted that faculty have to reintegrate the bookmarks because of the cookie error message.  Chapel will ask Patty Kahn to make an announcement to MSU faculty to remind them to renew their bookmarks in BlackBoard.
 
• Ad Hoc Committee Reports:
 
a) Learning Management Subcommittee (LMS) – Kasner reported that there was an LMS meeting on Nov. 20th. Mallery will ask Patty Kahn to post the summary of the November 20th LMS meeting to the ACC Web site.
 
b) Survey Subcommittee: After review and discussion of the Survey Subcommittee's proposed MSU Software Licensing Survey questions, Kasner offered to write a Survey Subcommittee Chair's Statement and distribute it to the ACC listserv, and the ACC deferred approval of the Survey questions to the February ACC meeting.
 
5. Old Business
a) MSU Policy on Responsible Use of University Computing Resources:
Chapel asked that the ACC review and comment on the proposed MSU Policy on Responsible Use of University Computing Resources, which Kasner had distributed via the ACC listserv. Chapel would like to have the ACC's comments and recommendations to the Faculty Senate in time for review of the Policy at the Feb. 21st meeting. Wolfson asked for clarification and a review of the old guidelines. Alvares noted that the NJ sate ethics controversy should be mentioned in the updated Guidelines. Minier said that the administration and legal counsel had been working on the new Guidelines for two years, and it would be counterproductive to go back to the old document. Shapiro asked what other university’s guidelines had the administration reviewed in preparing this document. Chapel cited Brown U., Fairleigh Dickinson U., Harvard and Yale as models. Minier added that they had looked at the five aspirant institutions named in the MSU Strategic Plan. Poger noted that some parts of the c
urrent Guidelines violated Freedom of Speech laws. Heller asked how can MSU enforce a policy that is so broad?
 
To facilitate ACC discussion of the Policy, Kelton volunteered to post the Policy to the CHSS wiki at http://newton.montclair.edu:8080/kelton/tiki-index.php?page=Responsible+Use+Guidline and send out instructions for wiki use to the ACC listserv.
 
Alvares will notify the Faculty Senate that the ACC is discussing this Policy and that the ACC have recommendations for the Feb. 21st meeting of the Senate.
 
b) Workstation Integrity Software – deferred to next meeting.
 
6. New Business:
a) Statistics Package - deferred to next meeting.
b) Endnote - deferred to next meeting.
 
7. Adjournment: The meeting was adjourned at 4:45 PM.