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Present: Kurt Collins, Tony Coulson, Steve Cuddigan, Lorraine Frost, Ian Jacobs, Jim Monaghan, David Randolph, Jason Riemer, Joe Scarcella, David Turner.

Welcome and Overview: Joe welcomed everyone to the TAC meeting

IRT VP Report: Lorraine reported that TNS is ending the 880 prefix. A form will be distributed to the campus for those departments that need to keep the 880 prefix. The form will allow users of the prefix to keep the number until June 2006.

Identity management project is about to begin.

IRT VP Office and Information Security Office are currently working on their second Title V grant to expand their model of collaboration in information security initiatives to other Hispanic Serving Institutions in Southern California.

CSU Provisioning Collaborative agreement was sent to Mark Crase in the Chancellor’s Office.

Keith Castillo – Software Issues and Concerns: Tabled to the next TAC meeting on December 2nd.

Complete Operating Handbook and Approval: Lorraine proposed to TAC that it would be advantageous to have a representative from the library on TAC. Discussion whether or not the representative should be at TAC level or working group level. Since the University Librarian is considered a Dean, it would only be appropriate to have the representative at the TAC level.

Jim moved that we have a librarian on the Technology Advisory Council. Jason seconded the motion. Motion approved unanimously.

Kurt indicated that we need to continue to have a strong academic representation in TAC.

A concern was brought to Joe that we do not mention ADA in the TAC handbook. It was suggested that ADA would fall under Teaching and Learning subcommittee and could be expanded from there.

Everyone was in favor of new handbook.

Committee and Subcommittee Report on their Committee List: Committees and Subcommittees are beginning to line up their activities for the year. David will start working on the Specialty Center subcommittee items – especially in collecting statistics for Macromedia and business databases. Lorraine indicated that if we had more information regarding Macromedia usage we would have been able to make a better informed decision regarding licensing.

Other Business: Discussion regarding learning management systems, in particular, what are current incentives for faculty to move their course into BlackBoard. Concern that that BlackBoard doesn’t really help learning – attendance goes down, grades drop. The only convenience is the gradebook.

David Randolph asked that clickers be put as an agenda item for the next TAC meeting on December 2nd.

Minutes submitted by Monica Alejandre

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