Attendees:  Brenda Mobley, Jim Vance, Katherine Myers (for Jeff Vernooy), Mitch Wolff, Ron Dorsten, Sean Kleefeld, Jill Orozi, Pat Walker, Dan Bertsos, Dan DeStephen, George Frey, Andy Montesano, Terry Anderson, Larry Fox, Mary Clem and Verne Smith.

Approval of Minutes for September meeting

Jim Vance requested the Provost's statement be added to the minutes regarding his announcement that the Provost's office would make approximately $100,000 available for the Faculty Computer Initiative.  With the approval of this addition, the minutes of last month's meeting were then approved.

CaTS Update

•       Faculty Computer Initiative -- Verne Smith distributed a copy of a memo sent to all college technology coordinators regarding this year's Faculty Computer Initiative (see attachment 1).

•    Microsoft License Agreement -- Verne also distributed a PowerPoint presentation explaining the charges in the contract being offered by Microsoft after the current contract expires (attachment 2).  At this point, WSU is still in the preliminary contract negotiations. 

•    Reduced Sign-On Update -- Mary Clem gave a demonstration on the process to change to a single sign on password.  An e-mail will be sent out this date to all faculty/staff/student listservs instructing users how to make this change and that it must be completed no later than December 9.  This information can also be found on WSU's website at:  http://www.wright.edu/cats/   

•    Information Services Update -- Terry Anderson gave a brief update on the status of current projects.  

ROX:

Recently developed a One Card lost or stolen service.  Students can de-activate old One Cards and order new ones.

Working on Admissions Status page  

Financial Aid Profile

Financial Aid Awards

DARS for Students

Merchant Epay

ADS (Academic Desktop Services):

This service provides a broad range of academic information delivered in generalized shared reports.  Started with 10 clients, but have increased to 48 clients with accounts.  The next step will be to determine what specialized reports are needed by the different colleges.

FDS (Financial Desktop Services):

In August deployed a new release, FDS 3.3, which is a labor distribution/encumbrance report as well as a number of enhancements to report already in the system.

DW (Data Warehouse):

Continue to enhance the academic, financial, and human resources data warehouses.

CTL Update

• Dan DeStephen reviewed the email information all faculty members who are teaching on-line courses Winter Quarter and wish to have CTL send out the course packets to students, must have their requests to CTL by December 2, 2002.

• Dan distributed copies of "History of Distance Learning/Web Enhancement" figures comparing the number of instructors, students, and classes from January, 1999 -- Fall Quarter, 2002 (attachment 3).

• In response to requests by faculty to have more in-depth exposure to teaching on-line, CTL has developed a course on the instruction of  how to plan, build, maintain, and facilitate on-line learning.  For more information and to enroll, see www.wright.edu/ctl/otl or call Chris Roberts @ x3943.

• Due to an ever-increasing number of requests for general and electronic classroom usage by individuals on weekends, CTL will be implementing a policy on the use of electronic classrooms on weekends and the fees that will be charged to give access to these rooms.  Policy suggestions should be sent to Dan DeStephen.

Other Business

Jim Vance had questions regarding CaTS fee policies charged for activation of network ports in classrooms.  Larry Fox requested Jim email his questions and answers would be forwarded back to him.  A copy of these questions/answers are attached.  

The next scheduled UTC meeting will be held on Thursday, December 12^th, 2002 from 3:00pm - 5:00pm in 276 Conference Room, University Hall.