Educational Advisory Committee Minutes October 10, 2003

Committee Members and Guests Present: (*)

*Michael A. De Miranda, Co-Chair College of Applied Human Sciences
School of Education
mdemira@cahs.colostate.edu

Susan Athey College of Business Department of Computer Information Systems Susan.Athey@ColoState.EDU

*Pete Seel, Co-Chair Liberal Arts
Department of Journalism and Technical Communications
Pete.Seel@ColoState.EDU

*Sanjay Rajopadhye College of Natural Sciences Department of Computer Science Sanjay.Rajopadhye@ColoState.EDU

Ray Whalen College of Veterinary Medicine and Biomedical Sciences
Department of Biomedical Science
Lawrence.Whalen@ColoState.EDU

Ed Chong College of Engineering
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering Edwin.Chong@ColoState.EDU

David Theobald College of Natural Resources Department of Natural Resource Recreation & Tourism
David.Theobald@ColoState.EDU

*Raj Khosla College of Agricultural Sciences Department of Soil and Crop Science
Raj.Khosla@ColoState.EDU

Guests:* HJ Siegel, ISTeC Director, hj@colostate.edu

Meeting Date: October 10, 2003
Meeting Called to Order: 2:00PM
Meeting Adjourned 3:00PM
Location: Clark C-235 Conference Room

Old Business
Meeting was called to order at 2:00PM.

  • Approvals of minutes from meeting of September 12, 2003 were approved.
  • Michael reported on the progress of the ISTeC pocket guide. The guide is being approved by all eight colleges, and to date one college remains for approval. Michael will be meeting with HJ to finalize the web links to the istec/education page.
  • NSF IS&T proposal team has been meeting each week to prepare a interdisciplinary proposal. Proposal is due October 17, 2003.
  • Status of proposal to CIT was discussed. Sanjay expressed a concern that few intent to submit proposals had been received. Sanjay discussed the possibility of submitting a general ISTeC proposal. Michael expressed a concern of ISTeC submitting proposals in the same competitive arena as faculty. It was clarified by Sanjay that he would not support ISTeC submitting proposals to the same grant competition as faculty, however he felt a sense of urgency to send in a “place holder” intent to apply so faculty could formulate an appropriate proposal. Michael agreed to work on a project that builds on the research committee’s data base project.
  • Pete provided an overview of the proposed sequence in Computer-Mediated Communication in Journalism and Technical Communication.
  • Pete presented a matrix of EAC recommendations from the ISTeC strategic plan. Pete and the committee discussed how the ISTeC strategic plan should be used to direct and inform the EAC’s plan of work. Pete suggested that we work towards prioritizing our work, informed by strategic plan. Discussion about how to prioritize and form our action plan will continue at the next meeting.
  • The committee discussed growing needs for web design and management courses on campus. The discussion revolved around looking at and creating similar courses in colleges throughout the university to take some pressure off of CIS and JTC. The committee discussed the role the EAC would or could play in achieving this goal.
  • Sanjay reported on the Engineering and Computing Education Grantee meeting.


Submitted; Michael A. De Miranda