Tuesday, April 17, 2007
Attendance: Jane Evans (Chair), Karen Turner (Vice-Chair), Paul LaFollette (CST), Robert Aiken (CST), David Baron (Med), Zdenka Delalic (Eng), Sally Harrison (Tyler), Pauline Hurley-Kurtz (Ambler), Luke Kahlich (BCDM), Lois Millner (SSA), Ira Shapiro (STHM), Joan Shapiro (Educ), Roy Stevens (Dental), Ann Barr (CHP), Maxine Chisholm (Coord)
1. Call to Order:
The meeting was called to order at 1:05 PM.
2. Approval of Minutes:
The minutes from April 10 were approved.
3. Guest:
Vice President Computing and Information Services Timothy O'Rourke made a presentation. He discussed the current and continuing upgrade to Temple's technical infrastructure. Temple has received many recent awards for technology. There are three main components:
1) Academic Computing and Technology: This includes such things as labs, smart classrooms, blackboard, and the Tech Center. These have all been quite successful. The Starbucks in the Tech Center is the most active Starbucks in Philadelphia. Much in this category is being upgraded. Three new breakout rooms will be added to Tuttleman. At the moment 55% of our classrooms are smart classrooms. More will become so.
2) Telecommunications: We are using close to 100% of our available bandwidth, which causes slow response campuswide. We are upgrading our routers and gateways and by fall we expect to double or triple our bandwidth.
3) Administrative computing: ISIS is 25 years old and does not provide needed modern services. There is a proposal going to the board to create a modern integrated data processing system.
Following the presentation there was a brief discussion.
Second Guest Eli Goldblatt, Chairman of the Faculty Senate Committee on Community Based Learning and Collaboration.
Dr. Goldblatt first suggested that this committee should become a standing committee rather than an ad hoc committee. The FSSC agreed to pursue this. He then handed out a mission statement for the committee, and a draft proposal of guidelines for community based learning courses. There was some discussion as to what the roll of this committee should be. There was also a suggestion that the mission statement indicate a concern for regional endeavors along with those of the neighborhood and city.
4. President’s Report:
The FSSC has been invited to President Hart's home on May 10th. The draft of new merit guidelines is being presented to the Council of Deans for their comment. Evans also discussed with Englert once again the fact that the policies of the "new Temple" are not always working their way down to the Dean's satisfactorily. For example, several Deans apparently continue to require CV's signed and dated on every page. She also gave Englert a copy of the "ugly adjunct letter" that we saw last week.
5. Vice-President’s Report:
The ballot for officers and elected committees was shown to the FSSC and approved.
6. Old Business:
There was no old business.
7. New Business:
There was no new business.
8. Adjournment:
The meeting was adjourned at 2:55 PM.
Respectfully submitted,
Paul S. LaFollette, Jr.
Secretary
