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Academic Research and Computing Advisory Board
Meeting Minutes
July 21, 2003
Attendance: Gayle Bentley, Clare Billman, Beth Brigdon, Van
Haywood, Anne Hinton, Fred Lupien, Rod Mackert, Fran Omar, Glen Owen (for
Randy Baker), Mimi Owen, Kevin Plummer, Kenda Rindt, Kristy Stephens, David
Wardlaw, Chris White.
Absent: Andy Albritton, Caro Cassels, Roman Cibirka, Mark Litaker,
Rick McIndoe.
The bi-monthly meeting of ARCAB was held in the President’s Conference Room, AA-302. The meeting was called to order at 1:00 p.m. by Rod Mackert.
The minutes of the May 19 meeting were amended with minor corrections and approved.
Dr. Mackert introduced Ms. Beth Brigdon, the Vice President for Information Technology/Chief Information Officer, who is a new ex officio member of the Board. Ms. Brigdon gave a PowerPoint presentation on the ongoing campus IT assessment effort.
Board Member Reports:
Classroom Services. Mr. Omar reported that CRS now has four Classroom Performance System (CPS) units that support 32 students each. Three units can be linked together to support a class lecture of up to 96 students.
Mr. Omar also reported on an initiative with the U.S. Army that is funding distance education equipment for AD-1020. The Army has paid $65K to equip the room for delivery of didactic instruction for an endodontics residency program. The equipment will remain the property of the Army for three years and then become the property of MCG.
Office of Educational Design and Development. Ms. Billman reported that they will begin a pilot with the new WebCT Vista system in January 2004. They will also be upgrading the existing WebCT system to version 4.0 over the December holidays.
Greenblatt Library. Ms. Stephens briefly discussed planning for the next technology fair.
School of Allied Health Sciences. Ms. Owen reported that the outstanding firewall issues have been resolved. Also, the Medical Technology Department has purchased the Tegrity product for multimedia delivery of instruction.
Ms. Owen brought two comments to the group from Allied Health faculty members. Steve Harrison (Chair, Medical Illustration) expressed interest in the work of our intellectual property subcommittee. Sherry Smith (Assistant Professor, Health Information Management and the campus HIPAA Privacy Officer) asked that HIPAA issues be examined by ARCAB in preparation for the federal compliance deadline of April 2005.
School of Dentistry. Dr. Haywood inquired about the difference between campus email addresses ending in @mail.mcg.edu versus @mcg.edu. Ms. Brigdon explained that these suffixes are interchangeable now. @mail.mcg.edu cannot be eliminated from our email system because many people are subscribed to list servers that still direct mail to the longer suffix.
Staff-At-Large. Anne Hinton reported the establishment of a technology tips column in the Beeper called “Bits and Bytes”. It will be used to disseminate pertinent information about simple computer procedures and tasks.
School of Medicine. Dr. White reported that the School was discussing the possibility of requiring incoming students to have computers or personal digital assistants (PDAs). Ms. Rindt is organizing a planning group to study this. Ms. Brigdon asked that the School also evaluate tablet PCs. Also, Ms. Brigdon asked that they coordinate their efforts through her office so that the volume can be leveraged with a single vendor to get the maximum purchasing power.
School of Nursing. Ms. Bentley reported that the RN-BSN program is now accepting 50 students per semester.
Division of Student Affairs. Mr. Wardlaw reported that there is currently no Student Liaison Committee due to the season. The committee will be recommissioned after all programs resume classes in late August.
Comment from Chair. Dr. Mackert has been studying the newsgroup function in GroupWise. It appears to be a logical method for facilitating online ARCAB discussions.
The meeting was adjourned at 2:00 p.m. The next meeting is scheduled for Monday, September 22 at 1:00 p.m.
Respectfully Submitted,
David Wardlaw
Secretary