Meeting Date: 2014-09-22
Recorders: Alan Isaac
Attending: Jason Fabrikant (SPEXS), Joseph Mortati (Kogod), Amy Taylor (WCL) Terry Fernandez (OIT), Brian Yates (CAS/Psych), Alan Isaac (CAS/Econ), Alayne Mundt (Library), Lucas Regner (CTRL), Chris Simpson (SOC), Amin Mohseni (CAS/Econ)
We’ll review last meeting’s minutes next time.
Introductions.
Chris gave background on “wish list” draft.
Chris opened discussion of co-chair. He’ll attend Senate meetings. Sonya handles agenda and meeting prep. Third person needed to manage priorities. Joseph volunteered. Chris, Sonya, and Joseph were unanimously voted as co-chairs.
Jason expressed concern about email (alternatives to Lotus), and would like to see better use of Sharepoint.
Amin raised issue of keeping faculty websites updated. Terry said there is a project request to pull publications from FARS to faculty default pages.
Amin asked about student pictures. Chris said WCL already has this but it remains in process on campus.
Lucas raised the issue of open source textbooks.
Joseph and Chris will be “keepers” of the issues list, which Chris will post for the committee to our WordPress site.
Alan will focus on classroom allocation issues.
Amin will focus on information dissemination issues.
Brian will focus on LMS issues.
Joseph will attend the ATSC meetings.
Chris reported on the last Senate meeting.
Brian asked about the SET, suggesting it’s a measure of process rather than outcomes.