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PRESENT: Linda DeWitt, Cindy Dietz, Joe Escobar, Linda Grenz, Linda Loft, Kaaren O'Rourke, Stephen Pruch, Joe Russin

FACILITATOR: Stephen Pruch

RECORDER:  Linda DeWitt

TACT approved the previous minutes as corrected.

Stephen provided an updated technology fee budget.  Based on revenue to date, plus an estimated amount for spring term, there is approximately $102,000 to allocate for the remainder of 2002-2003.

Ranking Criteria and Process

TACT reviewed the ranking process used for this round of requests.  The group felt comfortable with the 0-5 range and the weighting of different categories, as well as the 10 point range for professional judgement.  TACT recommends consideration of averaging the positional results for each person rather than averaging raw scores.

Several committee members struggled with the "other resources available" category.  There is general agreement that TACT needs more objective information about the resources available to a department or division.

In reviewing the "alignment with college plans" category, TACT suggested that the application process request that applicants cite specific goals and objectives from specific plans.

The application process should also standardize the students served as "the number of students served per year."

The timing is not good for coordinating awards with the Carl Perkins Grant award process.  However, TACT can prioritize requests and then make allocations for as many as possible, taking into account the Perkins approvals.

TACT spent the remainder of the meeting time reviewing requests.

NEXT AGENDA:
Review concept of funding and support for the ITC
Review TACT purchase guidelines, for example, duplex printers

Recorder rotation:  DeWitt, Vogel, Rusin, Dietz, Escobar, O'Rourke, Grenz, Loft