SIUC Computing Advisory Committee

 

Meeting Minutes of 1 April 2002

 

Those present: Al Allen (for Don Olson), Ruth Bernhardt, David Carlson, Philip Chu, Michelle Cunningham, James Duggan (recorder), JP Dunn, Susan Logue, Don Rice, Richard Steffen, Chih-Fang Wang, Tim Wills.

 

Don Rice, announced that the Academic Subcommittee met on March 26, 2002, and reported that Thomas Thibeault had agreed to be the new convenor for the subcommittee (but Don would continue to report on its activities to the CAC). The subcommittee continued to work on a number of items, including its website listing of SIUC software site licenses (http://colanmc.siu.edu/site/); ADA software compliance problems (the evaluation software does not report minimum level compliance), Susan Logue is planning to lead a workshop on working with the software; providing technical support training for a number of departments, the subcommittee is looking into establishing a graded internship program, to be supervised by Patty Cosgrove and Kelly Thomas; and continuing to look at computer literacy on campus and how to assess levels (perhaps an assessment survey could be done at orientation) and provide remediation (if necessary).

 

The 2002-2007 Five Year Long-Range Planning Document was unanimously approved by the CAC membership, and copies will be sent to Chancellor Wendler and Vice Chancellors Perkins and Poshard.

 

All Allen (attending for Don Olson, ex officio) reported on a number of issues including: 1) unwanted e-mail spam - IT continues to work on the problem, but has found that filtering on the server end has caused some legitimate e-mail to be blocked. Possible suggestions include a) call Customer Service and have them guide faculty & staff through setting up filtering on the client level (using filtering available through Netscape, IE, or Eudora); b) IT will contact e-mail abuse centers and obtain updated reject/accept listings, and c) continue to work on filtering for all e-mail systems.

 

Al also reported that a network security subcommittee has been set-up to begin to work on security issues (JP Dunn will serve on the committee and act as a liaison with the CAC). Jerry Richards (Information Technology) will serve as Chair. Others serving on the committee include Walter Gonzalez (University Housing), Bruce Fisher (College of Business & Administration), Ed Riddle (Library Affairs), Fred Hees (College of Education), Jerry Looft (Information Technology), Jimmy Buitt (Information Technology), Jonathan Terry (Plant & Service Operations), Paul Fleming (School of Medicine), and Todd Goro (Information Management Systems).

 

 

The next meeting was set for Monday, May 6, 2002, from 3:00pm - 4:00pm in Morris Library's American Heritage Room (306).