Attendance: Bazewicz, Candiotti (chair), Clarke, Erb, Huber, Pollock, Riemann, Yardley
The meeting came to order at 12:15 p.m. in Commons 209. The minutes
of the October
19 meeting were accepted as written. Alan Candiotti distributed
copies of the technology plans
of the College of Liberal Arts and the Theological School along with
a copy of the University
Technology budget request for the coming fiscal year. The balance
of the meeting was devoted
to discussion of those two documents.
The College
report stressed continued faculty development and support, citing the
“very
successful” faculty development program funded by grants; classroom
mediation to support the
growing use of technology in College courses; development and use of
the campus network,
including proper staffing and maintenance and updating of equipment;
universal access by
students to the campus network; and budgeting for adequate acquisition,
maintenance and
replacement of equipment. The report recommended the establishment
of a technology
endowment through the upcoming capital campaign. The report noted
the successful
accomplishment of two of the major goals of the 1994 strategic plan
- increasing the pace of
faculty development and constructing the campus network, and recommended
next steps in those
areas as well as continued work on the third goal - establishing proper
funding for equipment.
The committee received the report and discussed items in the budget
request which supported its
strategic priorities - proper staffing in Academic Technology, network
equipment and
maintenance, remote access to the network, classroom equipment and
staffing and software to
support on-line learning.
Anne Yardley then presented the Theological
School report. That report stressed using
the Internet as a learning tool in “virtually every course.”
In support of this goal, the report
noted that remote access to the campus network was “critically important
for the Theological
School.” The report recommended improvements to the network facilities,
improvements to
classroom facilities and continuation of the successful faculty development
effort as strategies for
achieving the Theological School’s goals. The report continued
by recommending strategies for
universal student development in technology and noting the need for
sufficient technology
personnel to support the increased use of technology. It concluded
by noting that the Theological
School looked forward to working with Academic Technology to realize
these plans and
recommending that the university provide adequate financial resources
and also seek grants in
support of these goals. Once again, the committee noted items
in the budget request which
support the goals of this report.
The committee scheduled its next meeting for November 12 and decided
to invite Laura
Sanders to speak about staff related needs and, noting that two thirds
of Drew technology users
are students, to invite student representatives from the three schools
to discuss student issues.
The meeting was adjourned at 1:20 p.m.