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1. Old Business:
- The 1st draft of the 95-96 SCAP plan ($105K) was presented to ACAC
on 4/7. The next meeting is scheduled for Friday (4/21).
- Carson project. The Asante ethernet adapters, when more than 9 are used
on the same ethernet segment, cause serious network problems on the
campus network (see NST minutes 4/19). Once this problem is resolved and more
computers can be connected to the campus network for use within the
room, it will be possible to try out different room configurations.
- Orientation '95. Doug notified Chip Morris that DC/TM will participate
in Orientation '95.
- SUNY workshops/conferences - There hasn't been much response to these
announcements, although attendance at the PictureTel seminars has been
quite good. Doug suggests that we may need to focus on specific faculty
that we think would benefit by attending the SUNY workshops and then
working on getting them to attend.
- HTML workshops. Bob suggested holding weekly workshops on HTML editing
so that we can build our HTML skills as broadly as possible. Bob will
suggest a schedule of sessions.
- The Finances Team (Bob, Brenda, Manola) met and addressed the IFR
deficit problem (see below). The Information Center Team will meet on
Monday 4/24 @ 1:30pm. Joan will be invited to attend this meeting and
to join the team.
2. New Business:
- PEOPLE:
Michael Conlon has accepted a position with Slippery Rock College in
Pennsylvania and will be tendering his resignation from SUNY Potsdam
at the end of the semester. We wish him well.
Justin has been awarded the President's Award for Excellence in
Professional Service. Congratulations, Justin!
- PUBLIC RELATIONS:
We pull pages from the Faculty Handbook which address services and
facilities we are responsible for in order to revise them
as necessary. We will them at the next meeting.
- BUDGET/FISCAL MATTERS:
The new Finances Team addressed how to cover the IFR decifit reported on in
our 3/30 meeting. The team contacted Marie Tyo about covering the deficit
with revenue from our telephone operation and that was accepted. We
discussed what items were cut from our plan for departmental expenditures
that was originally made to cover the deficit. We revised our "lapsing
funds" list to restore items previously removed and to include some
items that had been left off as follows:
- 3 telephone headsets @ $99 each for entering student voice-mailbox
information in the summer/fall. They will be used by Brenda, Karen
and student assistant. (NOTE: Brenda will check to see if she can
obtain these from the Admissions Dept. since they don't appear to be
using the ones they purchased.)
- hard disk drive @ $1050 (Doug)
- travel to training workshops/seminars:
* AT&T Equipment Day (Brenda/Karen) $120
* Anixter vendor seminar (Carm/Garnet) $120
* SUNY Training Center Networking seminar (Bob) $150
- additional "lapsing funds" ideas were discussed including partnerships
with other departments (e.g., Lucille Waterson's proposal for providing
access to the campus network for public school teachers; Art Dept's
hi-tech workstation; Now Up-to-Date for Lorelei Murdie )
: if you have items that you would like to have
considered under our lapsing funds, please
contact me!
3. Important Goals to be accomplished by 4/27:
- Call first meeting the Information Center Team and invite Joan to
join the team
- Schedule HTML workshops for staff
- Complete lapsing funds proposals and submit purchase requisitions by
the end of next week (DEADLINE for purchases is May 1st).
NEXT meeting: Thursday, 4/27 @ 8am.
REMINDER - the AGENDA for 4/27 is on our Up-To-Date department calendar.
- be sure to bring your copy of the *Faculty Handbook* to the meeting