TACT was retired as an offical college committee by action of College Council in the spring of 2005. These pages are no longer updated but are preserved as valuable reference material.

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PRESENT:   Cindy Dietz, Joe Escobar, Linda Grenz, Lida Herburger, Patrick Lanning, Stephen Pruch, Joe Russin, Linda Loft, and Kaaren O’Rourke.

ABSENT:  

Facilitator: Stephen Pruch

Recorder: Barbara McIntire

Recorder Rotation: Dietz, Grenz, O’Rourke, Loft, Russin, Escobar, Herburger, Lanning, McIntire

1.  The May 11, 2004 minutes were approved as amended.

2. Ken Zimmerman was a guest in the meeting and kindly outlined the fine work that the IT Strategic Planning committee has been doing over the past year and a half. As they near the end of their work (this teams work will transfer to the Learning and Technology Council), the team wished to share their strategic direction recommendations to TACT for review and comment. Their recommendations for strategic directions included:

• support IT access for students
• promote use of IT for anytime learning (self-directed learning)
• increase use of IT tools for student/teacher interaction to facilitate communication
• increase use of IT tools for assessment of learning
• promote literacy and use of technology by staff and students
• support IT innovation
• FOSTER innovation (so that Lane is a LEADER in IT use)

3. TACT’s position on utilization of tech fee funds was discussed. Although all committee members seem to agree that funding innovation is important, the tech fee funds are for direct student use, as mandated by the board when the fee was approved. The desire is to find other options for funding innovation. Stephen asked for input and ideas on this issue. The following items were mentioned: 1. inclusion of support to outlying areas, and 2. coordinate tech funding sources. A request for any additional feedback was requested.

4. A discussion on the idea of charging for printing on campus was started. Barbara is beginning research into the issue and some suggestions were provided. Some of the suggestions were:

• Provide each student with a certain number of free prints each term, and then charge after that.
• It was recommended that we should get some averages on student printing statistics, by student as well as by type of print out (to identify use, misuse, etc.)
• Billing before printing is used versus billing after printing is used was also discussed.
• It was agreed that the policy should be consistent and college-wide.
• Issues related to students carrying a balance on their account, logistical issues, and lack of authentication at various locations were also discussed and will need to be worked out.

Next Meeting: June 10, from 3pm to 5pm in ADM206. Agenda will include:

• TACT direction and role in the future
• Parking lot issues
• Members for next year
• Student email accounts