Present:
Eric Brewer, Robert
Buchele, Nicholas Howe, Thomas Laughner, Eric Loehr, Alan Marvelli, Katwiwa
Mule, Herb Nickles, Nicholas Russell, Charles Staelin
Absent: Glenn
Ellis and Kamille King
Guests:
Kate Lee, Damon Blanchette, Caroline Moore, Kevin Rocha, and Joanne
CannonCarlson
Minutes
of March 9, 2007
The minutes of the March 9th
meeting were approved as written.
Presentation
by ETS staff on the classroom support model
Kevin Rocha introduced the ETS staff and
explained that as a result of a reorganization within ETS the department was
now two groups: interactive services and classroom/event support. Kate Lee
explained the structure of ETS classroom support and said that extension 3474
was the number faculty should call for help as that is the central command for
classroom support. Damon Blanchette
demonstrated the new online equipment request form and classroom support
request form, explained classroom setup statistics, and said that ETS is
coordinating with the Registrar’s office to put classes in classrooms with
appropriate technology. Caroline Moore
demonstrated the new call tracking system for classroom support and said that
their goal was a two minute response time.
The committee asked several questions of the ETS staff and thanked them
for their work and presentation.
Update
on May faculty workshops - Joanne CannonCarlson
Joanne provided the committee with a draft
for an announcement regarding the May faculty workshops. She asked if she could assume once again that
faculty and outside presenters would be offered a stipend/honoraria for
attendance and if so, what the qualifier would be. It was agreed that attendance of 3 days would
qualify faculty for a stipend of $200 and that outside speakers should be
offered $500 plus travel expenses. The Dean’s office pays for faculty stipends
and CET covers outside speakers and food for the event. The committee said that the stipend should be
advertised as available to the first 25 responders committing to 3 days, with
the understanding that if more faculty responds that number could be adjusted. The committee changed the schedule to the
following:
Day 1: Friday, May 11
Day 2: Monday, May 14
Day 3: Tuesday, May 15
Day 4: Thursday, May 17 in the afternoon
due to a faculty meeting and lunch
Day 5: Friday, May 18 in the morning
Joanne agreed to make these changes and
complete planning for the workshops so that information could go out on the
faculty list serve with links for more information.
Faculty
initiative grant requests
The committee discussed the request by
Edward Check and the Theatre faculty for computer technology upgrades totaling
$42,890. It was agreed that this request
was not an initiative and Tom said that he would work with the Theatre
department to rewrite the request and have them submit it again through the
budget process as departmental expense.
Charles Staelin agreed to fund the two
software requests from Steven Goldstein and Mark Aldrich through the Dean’s
office.
Since there was no further time to discuss the other proposals it was agreed that the committee would schedule another meeting for Friday, April 27th at 10:30 AM in Stoddard Hall G4 to complete the CET business for FY2007.
Respectfully submitted,
Constance McGinn, recorder