ITC Minutes December 6, 2019
Meeting called to order at 1:20pm by Stuart Barnett (filing in for Charles Menoche)
Attendees: S Barnett, T Burkholder, E Givens, S Hard, S Johnson, J Lee-Partridge, J Melnyk, K Meyer, G Singh, S. Styruzula, L Washko Guests – G Claffey, M Fallon, R Kelly, A Kullgren
Approval of Minutes November 12, 2019
Chair Announcements: None
IT Announcements:
OneDrive is here. M drives will be going away – faculty/staff M drives will be migrated Dec. 30-Jan 10. Students are being done the week before that.
Windows 7 Support Ending in January – IT is working with departments to get everyone on Windows 10 by January. If you have a need to keep Windows 7 with a machine connected to an instrument or machine, contact the IT Department.
Internet Explorer will be uninstalled from computers during winter break.
Security Awareness Training: Being coordinated through the BOR. If you are required to take this training, you will receive an email from CSCU-SecAwarenessTraining@ct.edu. This is primarily for those with access to the Secure Enclave.
IDTRC Announcements: None
Media Announcements: None
Committee Reports
Learning Mgmt System (LMS) – RFP released for proposals. Due back by January 3, 2020. The next step is to identify finalists and have those vendors provide sandboxes to try out the proposed systems. BB contract expires June, 2020.
Online Learning – Discussion about online evaluations – a policy needs to be written.
Software & Hardware Requests – Subcommittee met – discussed requests and prioritized new requests. Requests were presented to entire committee for discussion.
Motion (Burkholder/Singh): Approve ongoing and requests. Passed.
New requests were acknowledged. George Claffey will put the total costs of the new requests into IT budget requests. Discussion about Matlab and the fact that the IT license does not contain extra toolboxes used by SEST students. IT will investigate purchasing some licenses with these toolboxes to install in the STC.
There were a few hardware requests, but the subcommittee did not meet to discuss them.
New Business
M Fallon presented the IPC proposal for a new BS in Electrical Engineering. $3500 per year for classroom and lab software is being wrapped into the proposal.
Motion (Burkholder/Melnyk): The ITC approves the IPC proposal for a BS in EE on the condition that the administration budgets for this software increase and include it in the allocation. Passed.
Discussion: T Burkholder mentioned that along these same lines, there is nowhere in the proposal a plan for replacement of computers in the future for the new Engineering Building.
Motion (Burkholder/Melnyk): The ITC recommends that the university plan and budget for service and maintenance costs for new and renovated buildings. Passed.
Discussion: Should the IPC Portal Form be changed to include a line item regarding future costs? What do the other state universities do for new and renovated buildings.
Adjourned 3:00pm.