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 These pages are no longer updated but are preserved as valuable reference material.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, Linda Loft, Barb McIntire.

ABSENT:   Lida Herburger, Patrick Lanning, Stephen Pruch, Kaaren O'Rourke.

Facilitator: (none)

Recorder: Linda Loft

Recorder Rotation: Escobar, Herburger, Lanning, McIntire, Grenz, Dietz, O'Rourke, Loft.

1.  Minutes: No minutes from the Sept. 23 rd meeting were presented.

2. Focus Issues:

• Several of the focus issues were discussed and clarified. The Student email and Wireless technology issues were taken off the list. Those items are in progress and have the full support of Tact to proceed. Therefore any discussion would represent implementation concerns, not policy topics. The Student access network issue could not be clarified as to meaning student dial-up or a public subnet. The final tally left the focus issues for the year as: Smart Classrooms and Charge for Printing, with Student Access Network a possible third item when it is clarified.
• Other Focus Issue Discussion: Joe reported that student wireless access is almost finished, with authentication still to be done. A question was posed as to why the email-accounts-for-students function in Banner had not yet been turned on. More discussion centered on ideas for communications with students which would be far more efficient for the college using Banner email accounts. Charging for printing was briefly touched on with several problems areas surfacing. These included better communication with faculty about appropriate student printing from websites, using better technology in the classroom rather than having students make class copies of discussion papers, and technical logon concerns in the library for faculty. The group also discussed the need for keeping current after finding that no one voted for the EDUCAUSE or Gartner Research papers. It was suggested that we each are assigned to review one technical publication and bring noteworthy issues back to the group on a regular basis. It was decided to set aside 15 minutes of the agenda for this discussion. With several folks absent, it was decided to assign specific publications at the next meeting.

3. Other Topics: Barb reported that a ‘dummy' account for faculty on NetStorage was set up. It was suggested that Barb request a short discussion item on Division meeting agendas to inform faculty about student use of NetStorage. But first, Stephen and/or Patrick should discuss it at the Instructional Managers meeting. Linda reported finding the banner email-to-class function puts all student email addresses in the To: address section, not the Bc: section – a clear FERPA violation. I.T. knows of the issue, but it has not been made clear to faculty. It was suggested that that feature be disabled until fixed.

TO DO's: Stephen/Patrick: Communicate to managers: 1) Barb's request for Division time to explain NetStorage and 2) Tact funding requests for student wireless antennas and public subnets should come in with Unit Plans.

Next Meeting: Oct. 28 th , from 3pm to 5pm in ADM206. Agenda will include:

• Assignment of research publications
• Agenda setting for Focus Issues
• Parking lot issues
• Members for next year