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Colleagues on the CAC:

Here are the Minutes of our meeting of 3/22; following them is the Agenda for our next meeting, scheduled for April 12th at 3:30.

The Computer Advisory Committee met on March 22nd for one hour.

Present were: Ken Barbee, Peter Bartscherer, John Bielec, Jan Biros, Bruce Char, Mark Greenberg, Chuck Haas, Carol Montgomery, and Tom Wieckowski.

Our discussion focused upon the following areas:

1. Update of new e-mail policy. We agreed that there has been little discernible criticism of this new policy and implementation is under way for each student and faculty to have an official Drexel e-mail address to which all University communications will be sent.

 2. Chuck Haas raised the question of whether there will be continuing support for both the PC and Apple operating systems on our network--and continuing choice for faculty as to which machine Drexel will supply. John Bielec affirmed that there has been and will continue to be support for both platforms and that there is no intention on the part of IRT to change this policy. The Committee then discussed the policy for faculty choosing which platform they wished to use when Drexel purchases computers for them. Robust discussion followed. The sense of the Committee is that faculty should have the right to indicate, without justification, and receive their choice of platform. An additional goal is to remove from service older machines (especially printers) that rely on the AppleTalk protocol, as these tend to degrade the network by being unable to employ certain network tools and security systems.

3. Jan Biros updated the Committee on the progress of the Pew Course Re-design grant team. Aimed at improving instruction in our Introduction to Programming courses while saving money, this grant would help to affirm Drexel's position as a national leader in innovative curricular design. We have been invited into the final round and should hear shortly if we have secured this grant.

4. Faculty will be invited to submit proposals to develop online courses in an innovative program sponsored by Vice-Provost Tsetsekos and IRT. A formal review process will be established, starting July 1st, leading successful applicants to stipends and support from IRT. Applications are available online at the Faculty Development website. Questions arose over the ownership and continuing offerings of such courses, and a lively discussion followed. John Bielec, Jan Biros, and Mark Greenberg agreed to meet shortly with George Tsetsekos to establish the policies governing such questions and will report back to the Committee.

5. IRT will be managing CAT 179, a multi-media room with video-conferencing capabilities. Interested faculty are urged to avail themselves of this technology.

6. The DRAFT Acceptable Use Policy was distributed by Jan Biros; it is also available online. Discussion of it will constitute the sole agenda item for our next meeting, which was scheduled for 12 April at 3:30 PM in 124 Korman.

AGENDA
CAC will meet on 12 April at 3:30 PM in 124 Korman.
The sole item for discussion will be the DRAFT Acceptable Use Policy (AUP).

It is available in hard copy from Jan Biros and also posted on the web. Please familiarize yourself with it, feel free to respond to the e-mail address indicated on the document, and anticipate a lively discussion at our next meeting.
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