Technology Advisory Council (TAC)
Formally known as Baseline Access Training and Support "BATS"

Mission: The Technology Advisory Council determines short and long range plans for providing student, faculty, and staff access to technology.

Initiatives to Accomplish Goals:

• Smart Classrooms
• Citrix Server
• Portals
• Mobile/Wireless Labs

History: The Technology Advisory Council is composed of faculty, administration, a student, and technical personnel with a wide variety of perspectives and technical experience. Over the past five years, the committee has participated in the following areas:

• standards and financial support for technical training and support
• workstation configuration and purchase
• server configuration
• policies, and purchase
• smart classroom funding and standards
• student computer lab computer configuration and purchase
• campus software license issues including recommendations for expenditures
• student computer purchase program.

The Committee has experience distributing the BATS funds to meet some of the campus’ need for access to technology, as well as exploring technological and logistical avenues to best meet access needs with available dollars.

Charge to the Committee 1998/99
Using the Baseline Access Training and Support (BATS) document as a basis, develop a corollary Technology Implementation Plan. The Plan should identify specific tasks to be undertaken, the resources needed to attain the desired outcomes, time-frames for reaching goals, and methodologies to assess the process. As part of this process an annual report must be generated for the CSU.

Revised Charge to the Committee 2002/03
The Technology Advisory Council will advise the Vice Presidents of Academic Affairs and Information Resources & Technology on campus-wide technology acquisition and use. Using the CSUSB Technology Strategic Plan and other appropriate campus and system policy documents, BATS will undertake specific tasks to encourage and assess technology use. BATS will coordinate efforts with the campus-wide technician committee and other appropriate individuals and groups. BATS may establish sub-committees and task forces for special projects. BATS will generate an annual report and make recommendations to the University Budget Committee.

The Committee is an advisory body to the Provost and the IRT Vice President as well as a sub committee of the Technology Advisory Council (TAC). TAC’s website is http://irt.csusb.edu/tac/.