TAG Committee

Meeting Minutes

Monday 09/13/04

12:00 noon

 

Members of TAG Committee for 2004-2005

Laura Little – John Davis – Co-Chairs

Frank Diller

Sharon Douglass

Eric Fitch

Craig Howald

Dan Huck

Tia Knowlton

Vicki Legg

Scott Lewandowski

Barb MacHaffie

Gloria Stewart

Debbie Stodberg – Recorder

 

Present: Sharon Douglass, Laura Little, John Davis, Frank Diller, Eric Fitch, Craig Howald, Vicki Legg, Scott Lewandowski, Barb MacHaffie, Gloria Stewart, Debbie Stodberg

 

Minutes from last meeting – approved and accepted

 

Old Business

 

1. Distribute IT action Plan & Summer IT Activities: (John Davis) – discussed plans and  gave summer report – infrastructure upgrades, installed fiber to every building on campus (except McCoy Football building) – this will allow us to migrate from FDDI backbone – our contract with phone company ends next summer and this will allow us to be self sufficient.  – IT will be installing switches and moving buildings onto this new system one at a time from the old segment – Presently we have a new outside contractor wiring all buildings from floor to floor for this migration

There is a set rotation for replacement of servers – every 4 years – John will provide TAG committee with rotation list

Each building is wireless – HFAC is next on the list – comments that the wireless is a little bit unstable in Thomas (additional nodes may be needed because of the design of the building)

Discussed access point in Gathering place – other places that the students may gather?  Future plans may include adding wireless nodes to dorms.

Mills – transitional plans for building – additional wireless nodes may be required.

Next step would be OC3 – plans are to add additional bandwith – presently we receive bandwidth out of two separate locations in Columbus.

State has 3rd frontier network – not sure when we will be connected – looking for grants.- discussed 3rd frontier and how it will work and internet 2 – separate from regular internet traffic.

Cdigix – Located on campus – through subscriptions they provide legal movie/music downloads to campus – Cdigix will also provide video clips that professors can use in their classrooms – The College pays a fee for X amounts of hours of usage.  – Cdigix hires a student intern to oversee all of these operations.

 

IT has purchased a site license for Norton for all students’ computers:  liveupdate.marietta.edu – future plans are to have a quarantined network – network will check each new computer brought to campus before can connect to network

Debbie will check with Vickie Graham to see if faculty’s home computers are covered with the Norton license – no it is only provided on college owned equipment. 

MC does have: Microsoft Windows site license, Norton site license for students, Norton licensing for all campus owned computers (faculty/staff/admin), MacOS 10 site license

 

2. Summer Online Courses (Laura Little) – 4 online courses were taught this past summer – Leadership, Biology, Education and Economics – enough students participated to evaluate the program – mixed results from students – this will not become part of the regular education program and will not replace face-to-face courses, but may be presented again during summer sessions.

 

New Business

 

Title III begins October 1 – 4th year.

TIG subcommittee will be set up and meeting times will be announced.

 

There is a list on Laura’s webpage of what has been done previously with TAG and TITLE III:

www.marietta.edu/~littlea

 

We are each to notify Laura of preferred meeting times for future TAG meetings.

 

Meeting Adjourned – Next meeting time - TBA.