December 8, 2020

Academic Information Technology Committee Meeting

Date: December 8, 2020

Location: Held via Teams due to Covid

Starting Time: Members began joining meeting at 1:50 PM.

Attending: Stefan Andrei, Abdul Wajid Choudhry, Joseph Kruger, Sujing Wang, Frank Badua, Dale Fontenot, Eunjin Kwon, Reza Barzegaran, Michael Saar, Kenrich Aung, Don Warren, Cindy Cummings.

Call to Order:  2:02 PM.

Approval of November Committee Minutes

After the correction of attending list was made. The meeting minutes was handled by unanimous consent and approved by attending committee members unanimously.

Chair Report

• Committee website was updated.
• Committee goal was reported to Dr. Nordgren by email.
• October meeting minutes was uploaded.

Discussion of the survey about computer and information technology services for faculty and instructional needs 

Current Survey

• Faculty survey: assess services on online teaching, prepared by Division of Digital Learning
• Student survey: prepared by faculty senator
• Distance Education Committee also plans to conduct faculty survey

 Suggestions and discussions:  

• collect the complete question list of the faculty survey by division of digital learning
• combine our survey with the distance education committee survey
• add some questions about the hybrid and hyflex courses on student survey
• IT is working on identifying computers 10 years old to replace them. This process will continue very year
• Faculty can request administrative privilege on their desktop/laptop at home by submitting online request
• Suggestions to possible extend VPN connection for more than eight-hours to for faculty to work from home
• Prepare the survey questionnaire
• Lamar purchases a handful of software licenses, e.g., Zoom for teaching

Next committee meeting date

    Tuesday, Feb. 23, 2020, 2:00 pm on Teams

Adjournment

    Motion to adjourn was made by Dr. Frank Badua. Seconded by Dr. Cindy Cummings. All members said ‘Aye’. Motion passed.

    Meeting adjourned at 2:50 PM.