TAG Committee

Meeting Minutes

Thursday December 9 , 2004

12:15 p.m.

Riggs Board Room

Present: Debbie Stodberg, Laura Little, Gloria Stewart, Scott Lewandowski, Barbara McHaffie, Vicki Legg, John Davis, Craig Howald, Frank Diller, Tia Knowlton, Eric Fitch

Absent: Dan Huck, Sharon Douglass

Minutes approved and accepted

Old Business:

TIG’s have been awarded to 6 recipients – notifications were sent out yesterday

Departments are still encouraged to apply for a grant.

New Business:

Firewall discussion – Students have been complaining that they can’t download stuff from the internet – The student body president contacted John Davis about this issue as well.  John explained the issues with downloading, the firewall and packeteer (a program for distribution of bandwidth) other issues – Marcolian – packet shaper is what is causing changes to student usage NOT firewall.  Packet shaper was installed to eliminate illegal usage of downloads – If students want music/movies they can legally get this through CDigix – If there are other issues or concerns from students about downloading information from the internet they should refer to the policy page and copyright laws or call John Davis directly X4390

SPSS – The College will be purchasing a campus wide license

Laura is finishing the TITLE III end of the year report

Meetings for next semester – members should email Laura regarding what are the best times to meet for next semester.

Discussed backing up information on computer and the best way to do this is (to CD).  Discussed having a workshop – Laura will talk to Vickie Graham about this.