FABIT Meeting Dates & Agendas
2005/2006 Academic Year
Agendas
May 17, 2006
- (No archived agenda)
April 19, 2006
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Wednesday, March 22nd, 2006
Discussion: Supporting Faculty Use of Technology
Joan Getman, Senior Strategist for Learning Technologies, OIT
Clare Van Den Blink, Manager of Faculty Support Services, CIT
Mike Swenson, Assistant Director, Customer Services, CIT
We'd like to have a conversation with FABIT focused on the broad topic of supporting faculty use of technology.
After a brief review of some steps we've been taking to address this issue to date, we'd like to pose a set of questions to help focus the discussion
Focus on General Technology Support
1. What are the top 5 activities that you most frequently need assistance with?
2. If/when local technical support is not available, what form (s) of real-time assistance would be most valuable to you?
3. Given the variety of central resources/information available, how can CIT best organize access to these resources so that they are maximally useful to you in your work (e.g. recent FABIT discussions about access to information regarding hardware and software)?
4. Our focus is generally on the provision of technology solutions that are scalable and reliable, primarily in support of "production environments" and all that may imply about a conservative approach to the deployment of technology - that is, people doing the day-to-day work of the university needing reliable tools. Yet, many faculty might benefit from support for a more "experimental" approach to the use of technology. We'd like your help in thinking about how to approach a better balance between the two.
Focus on Instructional Technologies (suggested by a conversation with Charlie Walcott)
5. What activities can the CIT Faculty Support Services organization carry out to play a more effective role in aiding the faculty in their efforts to strengthen undergraduate education at Cornell?
6. What strategies should we employ - how should we proceed?7. How can success be evaluated?
Wednesday, February 22nd, 2006
- IT Hardware Purchasing at Cornell (60 mins)
Sunny Donenfeld, OIT, Director of Distributed Support
Keith Boncek, AF&F, Associate Director of IT Services
Additional PresentersWhile Cornell University houses a software licensing services office within CIT, there is no formal analogous function at Cornell for hardware purchasing - although there are instances in which major IT hardware purchases occur in a systematic and transparent manner. How can we improve hardware purchasing processes at Cornell, and how can faculty be exposed systematically to major buying processes?
- Backing up Critical Data Off Site: an Imminent Directive? (30 mins)
Sunny Donenfeld, OIT, Director of Distributed Support
The University Audit Office has asked OIT to begin developing a policy requiring units to back up all critical university data off site. The Board of Trustees Audit Committee has defined critical data as 1) data that are critical to keep the business of the university running, and 2) data that would be very expensive to reproduce. How will this impact faculty, and how can faculty be made aware of their responsibilities in preparing for this initiative?
Wednesday, January 25, 2006
- Next Steps in the Development of CUTV (that is, IP-TV; 60 mins)
Robert Wilkinson, OIT - Discussion: A Few Issues in Academic Technologies (30 mins)
Clare Van Den Blink, Manager, CIT Faculty Support Services
Joan Getman, OIT, Academic Technology Strategies- Role changes within Academic Technologies
- Course Management Systems: Involving the Campus in Discussions About Future Directions
- Faculty Innovation in Teaching projects
Wednesday, December 14, 2005
- Wireless Access in Classrooms (30 mins)
Dave Vernon, CIT Director of Network and Communication Services - Large-scale software licensing (60 mins)
Mark Mara, OIT Director of Advanced Technologies and Architecture
Sunny Donenfeld, Director of Distributed Support
Given the advent of good, robust, and - importantly - free open source software, what are our current motivations for keeping current arrangements with big commercial vendors? Technical issues, financial issues?
Wednesday, November 16, 2005
- Continuation of IT Policy Discussion (45 min)
Tracy Mitrano, Director of Information Technology Policy, OIT
Pat McClary, Associate University Counsel
In the policy portion of the agenda we will continue to pursue discussion on information security policy. In particular we will concentrate on the process and substance of data classification and the application of that classification to Minimum Data Security Standards. The feasibility of the technology and end user-ability involved in those standards should be of particular focus. The goal is for harmonization of policy statements, practices and technologies.
- Continuation of Security Discussion (45 min)
Steve Schuster, Director of IT Security, OIT
Steve would like to address two topics. The first is the advisability of establishing a more proactive approach to centralized network filtering and/or firewalls. The second item is to solicit FABIT feedback on the possibility of requiring that all individuals who get new NetID's go through policy and security awareness orientation as part of NetID activation.
Wednesday, October 26, 2005
- Continuation of Security Update: Implementation of the Network Quarantine
Process for Incoming Students and Related Issues(45 min)
Steve Schuster, Director of IT Security, OIT
Steve will discuss Network Quarantine and how it dovetails with the issues that Tracy Mitrano will cover in the second agenda item below. He will also discuss the establishment of minimum security standards and how these standards might be enforced.
- IT Policy Update (45 min)
Tracy Mitrano, Director of Information Technology Policy, OIT
Tracy will present the last policy needed to complete the IT Policy Framework - a revision of Cornell's first IT Policy: University Policy 5.1, Responsible Use of Electronic Communications. Having bequeathed a number of policy specifics to newer policies, such as Reporting Security Incidents, Responsible Use is now positioned to become the principal policy concerning the management of data. It complements Security of Information Technology Resources to provide information security at the level of university information technology policy.
Wednesday, September 21, 2005
- Introductions (10 min)
- Demonstration and Discussion: In-Classroom Polling Systems (45 min)
Tom Every, Assistant Director, CIT Academic Technologies and Media Services
Jim Avery, Classroom Technology Consultant, CIT Academic Technologies and Media Services - Implementation of the Network Quarantine Process for Incoming Students (45 min)
Steve Schuster, Director of IT Security, OIT - Assorted Brief Updates from CIT (10 min)
- some organizational changes
- initial report on IPTV in Res Halls (now CUTV)
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