CPG Meeting Minutes

October 8, 2001, 3 p.m. Minard Hall, Room 120
Present: Chihos, Kapaun, Ross, Latimer, McClean, Kloberdanz, Wittrock, Saini-Eidukat, Jorgenson, Juell, Nygard, Balaz

1. Minutes - The minutes for the October 1, 2001 CPG meeting were approved.

2. ERP Process

1. The task force is drafting a notice to send to faculty and staff throughout the NDUS system. The notice will be sent out this week. The task force will bring drafts of scenarios to next Monday’s CPG meeting for discussion

3. Planning – We discussed planning issues for CPG. The primary topic was concerns for CPG to address during this academic year. This list generated at the meeting can be found below. Please feel free to add additional items. We will continue our planning discussion in future meetings.

Planning Questions

1. What do you think are the primary computing and information technology issues that CPG should address during the current academic year?

• Adequate budgeting for replacing/upgrading desk top and laptop PCs in departments across campus (including operating systems).
• Adequate budgeting for online information resources -- i.e. network content to support teaching and research.
• Policies and procedures governing the archiving, preservation, and availability of University records of historical or legal significance; which are in electronic formats.
• Student information literacy -- the skills of information problem solving.  By the time they reach their junior or senior year, university students should have the ability to locate, evaluate, and use information to become independent life-long learners.  They need to have improved abilities and skills to locate, evaluate, effectively use, and communicate information in its various formats.  This is a new liberal art that extends from knowing how to use computers and access information to critical reflection on the nature of information itself, its technical infrastructure, and its social, cultural and even philosophical context and impacts. (how it relates to general education)
• Building a new library building.
• Security policy/infrastructure
• IT Risk Management
• Varying and Inadequate levels of service
• Service Duplication
• Need for a defined architecture
• Inadequate IT funding from the legislature

· ERP smooth transition - being ahead of the curve

• deploying H.323 Videoconferencing from classrooms across campus

· building a support structure for faculty to stream archived lectures over the internet

• Choice of where to place resources in distance ed.
• UNIX (Linux) on the desk top
• (Linux) servers support
• Theses online
• Instrumented Classroom Building
• Network Access – shouldn’t have to ask whether we have enough
• Wireless – uses, need, cost
• Education/Awareness of computing, Information technologies possibilities
• Training
• To XP or not XP
• Environmental Scan
• Wide Area Network (WAN) funding

2. What do you think are the primary computing and information technology concerns facing the NDSU community in the next 5 years?

• Paying for bandwidth.
• Paying for the ERP system.
• Paying for a new library
• Paying for new integrated library catalog software.
• remaining competitive with technologies deployed by other universities
• Distance Education

The meeting adjourned at 4:00.