The committee recommended a number of changes in the draft, especially concerning the number of proposed new directors, wording changes making it clear that a major responsibility of the new Chief Information Officer on campus would be for effective communication and long-term planning, and including a rationale for the operating expenses shown in the proposed plan. The committee completed its final draft of the Distance Education Policy, and recommends that Faculty Assembly review the document and propose steps to be taken to launch policy. Full text of this document will be distributed to faculty representatives, to be considered at a future meeting after reps. Other faculty may acquire the document from Doris Carey, School of Education. We are encouraging VCAA Pierce to support such a change.
Faculty have no budgets to update titles every few years.
Discussion ensued on metering software, which works for some packages but not others. Faculty frustrated that they can't access basic programs such as Word 97 and Excel on their office computers without buying a license for themselves. Many suggestions have been received, but it's not clear whether they require new policies or are changes to proposed policies. Or are the computers being moved out of Dwire no longer of use to Business Students. Recommendations Adopted at February ACPC meeting, to be brought before Fac.