Instructional Academic Computing Committee

Minutes

May 10, 2007
Meeting in AH-1120 at 1 p.m.
John Ross and James Frazee, Co-Chairs

Deep Freeze
John Ross stated Academic Affairs is negotiating a 2000 seat license for Deep Freeze. They are down to the standing orders and chargeback details and the license renews what the departments have currently. The number of new opportunities to use the software will be the difference between the renewed number and 2000.

Accessible Technology Initiative (ATI)
The Accessible Technology Initiative (ATI) reflects the California State University's (CSU) ongoing commitment to provide access to information resources and technologies to individuals with disabilities. Bonnie Zimmerman is the chair of the Instructional Materials committee. Jim Julius, member of that committee, stated Instructional Materials are the focal point on ATI concerns for Academic Affairs. Jim is the chair of the ATI Web Committee, but at this time Rich Pickett and Carol Redding are really heading up the work being done. While John Ross is the Academic Affairs lead on procurement, ITS has been identified as the key player in the long run to facilitate university-wide efforts to have a fully accessible web presence, both instructionally and administratively.

Rich mentioned that we have 15 SDSU pages identified that must be re-mediated and reported on by June 15, 2007. The campus administrative sites have been given remediation dates that are sooner than those given to academic sites. These 15 pages were selected from a pool of ~60 pages which were selected according to the ATI criteria for an initial set of pages to be evaluated. The 60 are being evaluated only through the automatic process. The 15 are being evaluated through both the automatic and manual processes specified by the ATI, and are being re-mediated. The point of this is (a) to produce a required report for the CO, but really (b) to develop an initial set of experiences and expertise here to draw from as the remediation effort continues over the next few years and (c) to begin to map out what it will take for us, institutionally, to have a fully accessible web presence.

ITS update - Jim Julius
Jim Julius said ITS is working on a 150-seat video conference room at SDSU this summer. The room is in Adams Humanities; it will be used by our School of Nursing to facilitate a program with the IVC campus.

With Don Fera's retirement, ITS is hoping an offer is accepted by a candidate for the position and they will be able to make an announcement shortly.

ITS is also heavily involved currently in preparations for Commencement and the Course Design Institute sponsored by PICT and the College of Education. The Institute runs May 21-24 and is aimed at 30 faculty, who are planning to redesign courses for increased online delivery; the first day (May 21) is open to all who might be interested. They are expecting over 100 participants on the first day.

Announcements
Diana Osborn announced 5 attendees to the recent CATS Conference are scheduled to do a mini-conference presentation of the sessions they attended on June 7, 2007 from 1-3 pm in SSW-1500. The overviews will include links to download sites. Please come and share the experience.

John Ross reminded members that the IER Deadline is June 15, 2007 for 07/08 funding.

John Ross stated ITSO would be sending out to their contacts in the near future a list of vulnerabilities from their recent (4/13/07) FoundStone scan. It takes 10 working days after the appropriate approvals are received. When the contact receives a return email with 2 attachments, the contact forwards the attachments to John Ross. John then sends the information to the Deans for approval. ITSO wants to overtime eliminate all insecure protocols. This includes Mirapoint and ROHAN changing to secure mail protocols.

Carol Phillips and Sandy Neer expressed the need for assistance with the minute taking they handle for the IACC meetings. Too often, important information being discussed is not heard by them during the note taking. Each meeting's speakers were asked to send email to them with their talk's details to assist in the dissemination of IACC News.

Next meeting
It was suggested that Odum Ky be invited to the next meeting to discuss how Razorgates process mail. This suggestion was in light of reports of email that did not make it to their mail.sdsu recipient.

Next IACC meeting - June 14, 2007 at 1 p.m. in AH-1112.

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