CPG met weekly throughout the academic year. Here are highlights of this year's activities.
The committee worked with HECN administrators to ensure that e-mail forwarding will continue beyond December 31, 2001.
The president's office was alerted to the activities of CPG regarding classroom technologies. This was in response to a request by that office for recommendations from the campus units on how to improve classroom technology. ITS was concerned that technology installations should be "standardized" to ensure that quality service could be provided by their personnel.
A list of campus personnel whose WEBDEV accounts were to be discontinued as of Novermber 1, 2000 was developed and those individuals were directly (or indirectly) contacted (through CPG membership) to ensure that service continued for them beyond that date.
A campus network upgrade policy was implemented that reflects the CPG Networking Subcommittee vision that those in most need of high-speed networking should be accommodated as soon as possible.
ITS developed and CPG agreed with a plan that upgraded the campus modem pool by Spring 2001.
CPG and the University Senate Technology Enhanced Learning Committee acted as the Information Technology Roundtable Environmental Scanning and Visioning Subcommittee. Jointly these committees developed and approved recommended the "North Dakota State University Information Technology Visions". These centered around President Chapman's current themes for the university. The final visions (Version 9) was approved by ITR and is being circulated through the campus administrative structure for comment.
The committee recommended by-laws changes for CPG that were tabled by the University Senate Executive Committee.
CPG appointed a liaison to work with the University Senate to plan a Spring 2001 Internet2 day.
Following the recommendations for the CPG Cluster and Classroom Technology Subcommittee, an ordered list of classroom technology upgrades was developed. These upgrades were in response to requests made to ITS. The list formed the basis for Technology Fee proposals submitted by ITS.
CPG formed two subcommittees. The Internet Users Needs subcommittee addresses the campus's needs as it uses the internet for teaching, research, service, and other internet-based activities that support the functioning of the campus. Their report is attached. The Staff Computing subcommittee was formed to address staff computing needs as they support the academic mission of the university. The subcommittee held several meetings late in the year and will formulate their plan in the near future.
CPG collaborated on the completion of the Yahoo Campus Internet survey.
Long-term plans for the Networking, Cluster and Classroom Technology, and Distance Access subcommittees were updated, and the Internet Users Needs subcommittee developed its first plan. These are the specialty committees of CPG that make detailed recommendations to inform CPG, ITS and other campus information technology decision makers about appropriate directions that campus needs to take with regards to information technology that supports the academic mission of the campus. Those detailed reports are attached. Because the plans themselves are general, they do not lend themselves to abstracting. You are urged to read each for specific details.