Academic Computing Committee
Meeting Minutes
September 11, 2006
Members Present:
University Senate Representative: J. Alvares, M. Heller
Faculty Representatives: S. Sotillo [CHSS Faculty Rep.], R. Xing [SBUS Faculty
Rep., C. Du [CSAM Faculty Rep.], S. Poger [CEHS Faculty Rep.], A. Pemberton
[SART Faculty Rep.]
Administrative Representatives (Academic Deans): M. Mallery [Library
Administrative Rep.], A.J. Kelton [CHSS Administrative Rep.], H. Sanni [CEHS
Administrative Rep.], E. Harris [SART Administrative Rep.], L. Jenkins [Proxy
for Dean Alan Oppenheim], J. Youn [CSAM Administrative Rep.], J. Donadeu
[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)
Guests: K. Bain, P. Kahn, J. O'Brien, J. Minier, T. Hoskinson, R. Salomon, M.
Kasner
Absent:
S. Shapiro [Library Faculty Rep.], D. Stevens [Undergraduate Student Rep], A.
Mohiuddin [Graduate Student Rep.], VACANT [Undergrad. Student Rep.], VACANT,
Associate Director of Academic Technology
Presiding: J. Alvares, Outgoing Chair, and M. Kasner, Incoming Chair
Reporting: M. Mallery, Secretary
Distribution: ACC Web at http://frontpage.montclair.edu/acc/
Convened: 3:07 p.m. [Library Special Collections Room]
Adjourned: 4:40 p.m.
1. Call to Order: The meeting was called to order at 3:07 p.m.
2. Minutes: Minutes for May 8th were approved with one change in name spelling.
3. Announcements: Kelton announced that MSU EdTeXpo will be held on Thursday,
October 19th beginning at 10:00 am in the
http://frontpage.montclair.edu/edtexpo/index.html
. Registration will be open October 1st.
Wolfson and Kelton announced that they are attending EDUCAUSE 2006, October
9–12 in
4. ACC Officer Elections:
Kelton presided over the election for ACC Chair. Jean Alvares and Marc Kasner
were nominated; Kasner was elected by a vote of 7 to 3. The ACC thanked Alvares
for his service and dedication during his two-year term of office as Chair.
5. Reports
• Chair's Report: Alvares welcomed and Wolfson introduced Dr. Ken Bain, Vice
Provost for Instruction and Director of the
• OIT Report: Chapel reported that it is a difficult budget year for MSU. The
OIT budget was reduced by $839K for FY07, including eliminating seven position
from the OIt base, even though MSU added services, such as RMS (Resident
Management System), BlackBoard CMS (Content Management System), and
Lecture123. Six new positions were allocated and foregone, and the
Academic Technology Director is no longer a position to fill at this time.
In order to further cut OIT costs, the MSU ISP service will be removed as of
September 30th. This removal was announced in August with a list of
possible ISP replacements. OIT will also restructure financing for the
Lifecycle Replacement Program. Currently, hardware components are in
place to replace aging equipment. Chapel is putting together an Advisory Group
and Ad Hoc Committee to recommend characteristics and configuration of
machinery for the next large-scale replacement schedule. Chapel is currently
meeting with Deans and Heads of administrative units for recommendations of
members for this ad hoc committee.
Chapel also reported that he can no longer serve as the OIT representative to
the ACC, and that in his place Patty Kahn will attend to report on BlackBoard
CMS, John O'Brien will report on classroom technology issues, and other OIT
staff will attend to report on other initiatives, such as Brian Beckett
reporting on the SPAM filtering issues at the May ACC meeting. Kelton
noted that the Academic Technology Director is a voting rep. to the ACC.
Chapel said that he would email the name of the OIT ACC voting rep. to Kasner,
the new ACC Chair.
• Ad Hoc Committee Reports:
a) Learning Management Subcommittee (LMS) - Kahn reported that the LMS had not
met yet, and the new Chair has not been elected. Six faculty are piloting
Moodle,an open source learning management system, this semester and will report
to LMS at the end of the semester. Other faculty have found Moodle
"overwhelming" compared to BlackBoard, which is more structured and
easier to use for faculty. Kahn will convene a meeting of the LMS in
October.
b) EDUCAUSE Membership: Kelton (Chair) had nothing to report at this time.
6. Ongoing Business:
• Technical Specifications Subcommittee (TSS): Alvares explained the rationale
for the TSS, which had been discussed at the May ACC meeting with the vote
deferred to September. After discussion, the motion was amended to:
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Kelton moved that a standing subcommittee of the Academic Computing Committee
(ACC) be created called the Technical Specifications Subcommittee (TSS). The
TSS will consist of one technical person from each unit represented by the ACC
as well as technical personnel, the number of which to be determined and
assigned by the Office of Information Technology (OIT), to represent issues of
systems, technical security, networking, media, classroom technology, hardware,
and software. The TSS will elect its own governing body and the agenda will be
driven by issues as suggested or requested by the ACC. The TSS will meet as
needed in order to address the issues presented to it, with the objective of
providing timely information to the ACC.
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The motion passed. Youn moved that each of the following four ACC Ongoing
Business items listed on the agenda should be referred to the TSS for
discussion and recommendations to the ACC at their next meeting:
A. Discussion of Common Build
B. Discussion of licensing users for software across campus
C. Policy on frequency of lab reimaging
D. Workstation integrity software
Kasner said that he would contact the new members of the TSS and convene the
first meeting.
7. New Business:
• ACC Meeting Schedule for 2006-7:
11 September 2006
9 October 2006
13 Novermber 2006
11 December 2006
22 January 2007
12 February 2007
5 March 2007
9 April 2007
7 May 2007
All meetings will be held on a Monday 3 to 5 PM in the Special Collections Room
in Sprague Library, except for the March meeting, for which Kahn and Mallery
arranging a meeting room in University Hall.
8. Adjournment: The meeting was adjourned at 4:40 PM.