Technology Fee Awards Announcement
Fall 2003
The Technology Fee Advisory Committee (TFAC) received sixteen
proposals requesting a total of $401,169 in the Fall Call for
Proposals. On October 20, TFAC met, using the GDC to examine all
requests. The proposals were considered twice. The first time, they
were all discussed using the GDC technology in the order that they
were received with no formal motions and without regard to budget.
The comments from this discussion on each proposal were later sent
to its author.
After the disussion, the committee members ranked the proposals
individually using a ten-point scale. Next the committee discussed
each proposals a second time with formal motions in the order that
they were ranked and with attention to budget.
Based on the recommendations by the TFAC, Provost Schnell
approved the following proposals.
- 0314 Using the PDA for Curriculum
Enhancement, Dean Gross, $9,306.00
Requests funds for 11 PDA devices and software. Provides method
in which to collect data about student /clients encounters
Mid-year
Report
Final
Report
- 0317 Instrumentation of four Fundamentals of Public
Speaking Basic Course Classrooms, Deanna Sellnow,
$28,160.00
Requests funds for four instrumented classrooms (two were
funded)
Mid-year
Report
Final
Report
- 0318 Classical Music Internet Service, Mark
England, $1,000.00
Provides for an initial license fee to provide a Classical Music
Library over the internet. Three simultaneous users could access
recordings at a time.
Mid-year
Report
Final
Report
- 0322 Student Awareness and Education for Safe
Computing Practices, Theresa Semmens, $14,125.00
Funds a project aimed at educating students about IT security and
safe computing practices
Final
Report
- 0324 Technology Upgrade Proposal for Van Es 105-107,
Microbiology Teaching Lab, Douglas Freeman,
$12,000.00
Requests funds to install the 2nd half of Microbiology lab as an
instrumented teaching environment
Final
Report
- 0325 Upgrade Computer Equipment for Student
Use in the Center for Writers, Richard Shaw,
$5,319.00
Requests funds to replace old computer systems with more current
systems (adds scanner and printer)
Mid-year
Report
Final
Report
- 0328 Clinical Software Product, Barbara
Lonbanken, $5,000.00
Provides for updating software to the Student Health Service to
manage health information and is compliant with HIPAA
Mid-year
Report
Intermediate
Report