Academic Computing Committee
Meeting Minutes
September 19, 2005
Members Present:
University Senate Representatives: J. Alvares, M.
Heller
Faculty Representatives: A. Adarkar [CHSS Faculty
Rep.], M. Davidson [CEHS Faculty Rep.], S. Shapiro [Library Faculty Rep.], R.
Xing [SBUS Faculty Rep.]
Administrative Representatives (Academic Deans): A.J. Kelton
[CHSS Administrative Rep.], M. Mallery [Library
Administrative Rep.], H. Sanni [CEHS Administrative
Rep.], R. Salomon [Proxy for Dean Alan Oppenheim], J.
Youn [CSAM Administrative Rep.], A. Rohman [Graduate School 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
Absent: A. Koeller (CSAM), A. Pemberton [SART Faculty
Rep.], R. Julian Robinson [SART Administrative Rep.], D. Stevens
[Undergraduate Student Rep], A. Mohiuddin [Graduate
Student Rep.], D. Stevens [Undergrad. Student Rep.], V. Lilikas [Undergrad. Student Rep.],VACANT,
Associate Director of Academic Technology.
Guests: P. Kahn, J. Minier
Presiding: J. Alvares, Chair
Reporting: M. Mallery, Secretary
Distribution: ACC Web at <http://frontpage.montclair.edu/acc>
Convened: 3:05 p.m. [Library Special Collections Room]
Adjourned: 4:55 p.m.
1. Call to Order: The meeting was called to order at 3:05 p.m.
2. Minutes: Minutes for May 2 were approved.
3. Announcements: Salomon announced that registration is open for MSU EdTeXpo on Oct. 11th. Dr. Paul Hagner,
Associate Director of the Educause Learning
Initiative (see http://educause.edu/eli
), is the keynote, speaking on "Teaching in Turbulent Times: Challenges
and Opportunities." Wolfson added that the
luncheon speaker is from the
Heller announced that the NJEDge Annual Conference
will held on November 2-4 at the
NJEDge is also hosting a videocast
of a presentation by Luis Rodriguez on "Copyright, Congress and the
Campus" on September 28th, which will be broadcast from MSU.
4. Reports
• Chair's Report: Alvares introduced and welcomed the
two new ACC members, Hakeem Sanni,
the Admin. Rep. for CEHS. and
Afim Rohman, the
• OIT Report: Chapel reported that the Fall term is beinning with OIT projects that have gone well over the
summer:
*Network Readiness Project - Students are registering for using the campus
network in record numbers. Las year, the process was flawed and slow, but
this year 3,100 users are registered as of today.
*Cellular Telephone Project - The project is opening with a PR event on
September 30th. Every new student living in the residence halls must use
the Campus Connect Program with value-added services such as interface with BlackBoard, tracking shuttle buses on campus, RSS feeds and
Sodexho menus. 1400 cell phones were issued.
Campus Connect is enabled by Rave Wireless Inc.online
at http://www.ravewireless.com/
*Campus-Wide ID (CWID) - OIT is in the final stages of preparations for
implementation of the alternate ID project, where the CWID will be the number
that is displayed on all reports and transactions that are visible to the
public rather than the Social Security number. An email will go out to the
campus listserv announcing what CWID means for all users. Tech.
coordinators should pay particular attention to integration of databases.
Heller asked for a timeframe. Chapel said email to campus will go out at
the end of this week and rollout is scheduled for the end of October.
*Technology Equipment Requests - OIT has received the technology requests from
Deans and Tech. Coordinators. The total amount of requests would cost
$1.9 million, and available funds are a quarter of that, so the requests are being reviewed and prioritized. This should
take another week or so; three-quarters of the requests were for desktop
computers. Wolfson noted that the three-year
replacement for faculty technology should be first priority for technology
requests.
*New
*Director of Academic Computing Search - 80 candidates have
applied for the position. OIT currently is seeking a Chair for the Search
Committee. The Search will take place this Fall.
• Ad Hoc Committee Reports:
a) Learning Management Subcommittee (LMS) - . Alvares
asked for a new Chair. Davidson volunteered. Current members are
Devlin, Alvares, Davidson, and Susan Hussein.
Kahn said that she created a summary report of past LMS activities and will
forward it to Davidson. Davidson will report in October on current issues
that LMS will address.
b) EDUCAUSE Membership: Kelton (Chair) reported that
the Committee met over the summer. This year's FTE increase for MSU should be
reflected in EDUCAUSE representation, and the Committee will report on filling
more seats to give for representation from each of the Schools.
c) Mandatory MSU NetID Registration and Use: Heller
(Co-Chair) reported that policies and capabilities of MSU LDAP system
underlying MSU netID is used
for authentication by Language Labs to get information on users. Youn (Co-Chair) added that CSAM has username/password
authentication is outside MSU netID, and leveraging
LDAP data would allow them to realize a single name and password. Salomon noted
that SBUS tried to attach to LDAP to create their own directory to leverage
LDAP information. When they were not give
access, they created their own directory. Youn
requested that MSU have multiple custodians of LDAP. Chapel asked that
the Co-Chairs discuss this question with Jeff Giacobbe
in OIT to address the security implications. Alvares
asked for volunteers to follow up. Heller and Salomon will speak to OIT,
and Kelton said he would consult with Milos Topic on leveraging LDAP, and all will report back to
the ACC on their findings.
d) Restructuring Committee for ACC: Kelton reported
that the Committee has not met yet and ACC should wait until Faculty Senate
moves on this issue. Alvares said he would take
it off the ACC agenda for now..
5. Ongoing Business:
• Internet Access Control in Classrooms: Kelton
clarified that the ACC Motion for Internet Access Control in Classrooms was not
directed toward blocking the Internet in the classroom but about controlling
the lab environment. Chapel noted that the Motion does not make clear if the
goal is to deploy this software in all computer labs or only in particular
ones. Kelton said that software is only for labs with
fixed assets, and not movable. Chapel said that there needs to be a technology
request for software. Kelton noted that ACC advised
the Faculty Senate. Chapel said that OIT will provide information and
prices on the Internet Access Control in Classrooms software to the ACC, then the ACC can recommend to the Faculty Senate that MSU
make this purchase as a university-wide application.
• Anti-Spyware Applications: Chapel noted in response
to the ACC Motion on Spyware that MSU does not have a
license for anti-spyware at this time. Youn noted that many anti-spyware
program are okay for personal use but not
campus-wide. Chapel said that Sophos has an
anti-spyware application, and there are open source
anti-spyware applications available as well. Youn will follow up with OIT on this question and report
back to the ACC.
• New MSU Procurement System: Chapel reported that OIT has worked hard on the
new interface for Siquest, the new MSU e-Procurement
system. In six weeks, staff should be able to use the system. You
asked for tech. requirements, and Chapel said it is Web-based,
browser-independent and there is no client installed.
• Mandatory MSU Email Use: Heller noted that the current size-limit of MSU
email attachments of 9.5MB is not large enough. Yahoo allows 20MB.
Chapel asked that he make a recommendation to OIT. Heller said he would
recommend that OIT look at the 5 benchmark institutions from the MSU Strategic
Plan to find out maximum message size and report back to the ACC. Youn said that OIT should look at the mailserver
logs to see the frequency of these attempts being denied. Chapel said
that OIT will look at the metrics and frequency of denials.
6. New Business:
• ACC Meetings Calendar: Alvares announced this
year's ACC meeting dates in the Library's Special Collections Room from 3PM-5PM:
Monday, Sept. 19th
Monday, Oct 10th
Monday Nov. 14th
Monday, Dec. 12th
Monday, Jan 23rd.
Monday Feb. 13
Monday March 20th
Monday April 10th
Monday, May 8th.
7. Adjournment: The meeting was adjourned at 4:55 PM.