Student Government Association Minutes March 04, 2014 ROLL CALL: Jocelyn Herra-Lazo, Shannon Cullinane, Ryan Losco, Tara Saraf, Justin Doss were absent. Ashley Erskine was excused. APPROVAL OF MINUTES FROM February 28, 2014: Minutes were approved. PRESIDENT’S REPORT: Taylor Fote Tonight we have Tom Raffensperger the Dean of Academic Information services. Tom Raffensperger: Hello. In case you’re wondering, it’s kind of a made up job title, kind of the else” department. I think the way it “everything started is that, a while ago, Academic Affairs asked itself, why are we in charge of everyone’s email? Why are we in charge of Banner, and all these services that the rest of the University used as well? Things involved with infrastructure and all that were moved over to Administration and Finance, but the Help Desk, Center for Instructional Technology, the things that really help run or support the academics of the institution stayed on the academic side and were combined with the library. My other job title is Library Director, and this merge includes television and video operations, media services, etc. Our unit pulls together a lot of technology based organizations that help support mainly instruction. But, we’re also kind of the front end of helping people out, sort of like the customer service unit, if you will. For instance, the folks over in infrastructure are rolling out the Microsoft 365 next week over spring break. It will start Monday, March 10th and take about 4 days. So there might be a few hours were you can’t access your email while it’s being migrated over, but the good news is that if you can’t access it, that means it’s being migrated. You may know, but with this you will get 25GB of storage space rather than 25MG of storage space so things will get a little better for you I think with that change. Last fall, Professor Carsten Braun and I put out a student technology survey and that was really the first time students were asked what they wanted as far as technology on campus. We got a great response: 749 respondents, and of those, 539 left comments, and that after 33 questions, so that’s pretty good I think. Almost all the comments were complaints about ResNet, but the purpose of the survey was to find out what was working and what isn’t working. ResNet is definitely a
Student Government Association Minutes March 04, 2014 ROLL CALL: Jocelyn Herra-Lazo, Shannon Cullinane, Ryan Losco, Tara Saraf, Justin Doss were absent. Ashley Erskine was excused. APPROVAL OF MINUTES FROM February 28, 2014: Minutes were approved. PRESIDENT’S REPORT: Taylor Fote Tonight we have Tom Raffensperger the Dean of Academic Information services. Tom Raffensperger: Hello. In case you’re wondering, it’s kind of a made up job title, kind of the “everything else” department. I think the way it started is that, a while ago, Academic Affairs asked itself, why are we in charge of everyone’s email? Why are we in charge of Banner, and all these services that the rest of the University used as well? Things involved with infrastructure and all that were moved over to Administration and Finance, but the Help Desk, Center for Instructional Technology, the things that really help run or support the academics of the institution stayed on the academic side and were combined with the library. My other job title is Library Director, and this merge includes television and video operations, media services, etc. Our unit pulls together a lot of technology based organizations that help support mainly instruction. But, we’re also kind of the front end of helping people out, sort of like the customer service unit, if you will. For instance, the folks over in infrastructure are rolling out the Microsoft 365 next week over spring break. It will start Monday, March 10th and take about 4 days. So there might be a few hours were you can’t access your email while it’s being migrated over, but the good news is that if you can’t access it, that means it’s being migrated. You may know, but with this you will get 25GB of storage space rather than 25MG of storage space so things will get a little better for you I think with that change. Last fall, Professor Carsten Braun and I put out a student technology survey and that was really the first time students were asked what they wanted as far as technology on campus. We got a great response: 749 respondents, and of those, 539 left comments, and that after 33 questions, so that’s pretty good I think. Almost all the comments were complaints about ResNet, but the purpose of the survey was to find out what was working and what isn’t working. ResNet is definitely a
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