Stamm said that there is a faculty workshop scheduled for March 7th in the ITRC that will serve as an introduction to the new version. A proposal needs to be submitted to TOC next week if CSAC wants to be involved in this issue. Once again lively discussion followed. Some departments have the money to purchase site licenses while other departments do not have any flexibility in their budgets at all. There is a great deal of staff time involved in installing and learning new software.
Some software products span multiple departments while others are specific to one department only.
Due to time limitations a small subcommittee was formed to continue the discussion. Next week Stuffle, Kelley, Norton, and Mercaldo will finalize a preliminary proposal to be submitted at the next TOC meeting. New Business None 7.