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Present: Lisa Bartle, Lorraine Frost, Bob McGowan, Jim Monaghan, David Randolph, Jason Reimer, Mike Ross, Joe Scarcella, Bill Takehara, David Turner.

Welcome: Joe welcomed Lisa Bartle to TAC. Lisa will be representing the Library.

IRT VP Report: Lorraine presented the TAC Handbook to Academic Affairs council. Lorraine indicated that Lou Fernandez still wants academic technology advisory committee.

1. PDC Representative –Dean Jandt would like to have a representative from Palm Desert Campus. Lorraine suggested that Joe contact Dean Jandt to discuss recommendations for a person.
2. CSUSB and CSU East Bay have been approved for ~$50,000 from Chancellor’s office for the Identity Management project. We will upgrade the Sun infrastructure system and automate creation/deletion of email accounts and synchronize LDAP. From that point we can move on to other areas of concern. We need to identify what is a “student”, i.e. matriculated, FTE. TNS will document what their standard practices are for email. Dr. Karnig has asked that become more sensitive to how email is saved. We don’t have a specific timeline on how long email should be saved. David Randolph asked if there will be a push to use separate nmaps? Lorraine said that may be considered.
3. LMS Strategic planning – The Chancellor’s Office has engaged consultants to assist them with their review in how the CSU should be using LMS.
4. Other Business – The Information Security Office in collaboration with University Advancement has initiated an Etoken project for secure two factor authentication to the Advancement database. The university needs to ensure that the database is secure to prevent liability in case anonymous donors are exposed. David Turner suggested that tokens aren’t really secure - to be totally secure, you need an input device. Also, ACM has coordinated a deal with Quickstart for training. Quickstart will have 3 free seats available for technicians on campus for training. The only fee is for materials. The tech steering committee will set the criteria for training participants.

Black Board Issues: Jim Monaghan presented a listing of courses that are being taught using Blackboard. The presentation reflected multiple ways in which Black Board was being utilized by faculty from posting PowerPoint presentations to full utilization of discussion boards and communication. Over 450 courses are being taught using Blackboard.

Software Issues and Concerns and Tech Training Report: Dave Turner distributed the survey he will be distributing to faculty regarding Specialty Center software. The software listed on the survey is Compustat, CRSP, SSBDA, GIS, SAS and SPSS. CBPA needs Compustat and CRSP because it looks good on accreditation and it’s a strong resource for faculty recruitment. Issue is the cost – it’s expensive but nobody is stepping forward to pay for it. Both IRT and Academic Affairs split the cost last year. This year CBPA supplemented IRT with money to pay for Compustat and CRSP. There’s no baseline allotment for this – currently funds are coming out of IRT’s central account to pay for this.

Dave also reported that we could receive a discount on Compustat, however, we need 8-9 campuses for the discount and only 6 CSU’s are using it right now. It was suggested that the Specialty Center group bring the importance of the software to the attention of the Dean that needs to support this.

Clickers: Jason arranged for a meeting with McGraw Hill regarding clickers at the next TAC meeting on February 3rd. Some concerns regarding the use of clickers is that we may be strapped to one vendor, cost, and student resistance if it’s only for one course. One suggestion was that we could fund a low cost pilot project and if there’s a positive response then it would be something we want to pursue.

Committee & Subcommittee Report: Nothing to report.

Other business: Kurt is trying to pursue an Apple Laptop initiative on campus. Kurt, Lorraine and Tony will visit San Jose State University on January 19th and 20th to see how they implemented their initiative. Some concerns regarding the laptop initiative is that students may not want to carry the laptop, theft, expectation of technical support, affordability (SB County is one of the most impoverished areas serviced by a CSU). David Randolph suggested integrating electronic versions of text books rather than paper ones to help lower costs to students. Joe asked Kurt to do a report on this at the February 3rd TAC meeting.

Bill suggested it would be a good idea to have the TAC handbook updated before the start of the next academic year. Lorraine said we could do it at the TAC retreat.

Minutes submitted by Monica Alejandre

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