1:30 – Breakout Sessions
Vukovich Rooms 111 – Collaborative Support for Effective Administrative Decisions
Allegheny’s administrative data and system support model has produced several strong partnerships between IT and administrative departments. We’ll explore how we’ve made partnership and collaboration work to produce effective and mutually beneficial results. The conversation will center around the support of the Ellucian Colleague SIS and Entrinsik’s Informer Web Dashboard/Reporting Tool in collaboration with Enrollment and Development.
P. Todd Fox, Director of Development Resources
Jason Ramsey, Assistant Director of AIS
Allegheny College
Vukovich Room 202 – A Common Sense Approach to RFP’s
The term “RFP” is used universally but has vastly different meaning across institutions and vendors. Hope College’s process strives to gather functional details, provide insight into each respondent’s corporate culture, and set the tone for the potential partnership. Those in attendance will be encouraged to share their successes and challenges. As a very conversational session, the presenter’s goal is that the collective wisdom of those in attendance will allow him to completely avoid any future procurement and vendor relationship headaches.
Jeff Pestun, Assistant Director of CIT
Hope College
Audience contribution is encouraged in this discussion of the challenges and rewards of project management in community-based digital humanities initiatives.
Amelia Carr, Associate Professor of Art
Helen McCullough, Instructional Technologist
Allegheny College
2:20 – Breakout Sessions
Vukovich Room 111 – PaperCut Implementation
Campus wide printing moved from direct IP based printing to the use of a Papercut Print server in the summer of 2012. This session will describe the process and technology decisions that went into implementing the PaperCut print management system.
James Fadden, Director of User Services
Fernando Hernandez, Microsoft Windows Systems Administrator
Jodi Millin, Financial Systems Coordinator
Allegheny College
Vukovich Room 202 – Student Technology Assistant Program (STA)
Our goal was to develop a student employment program within Information Technology that provides exceptional educational and professional development opportunities for our students. We set out to improve the level and quality of information technology support services at a lower cost while offering students the ability to develop a solid resume that visibly demonstrates how a student’s experience at Wooster ties theory to practice. How did we do it? We established position titles within each area of Information Technology: User Services (help desk), Instructional Technology and Media Services and created a tiered pay scale. Our students serve as Tech TAs and assist faculty with technology projects in the classroom, they provide first tier support through the help desk, they staff and support our events on campus and serve as trainers for supported software. We developed a self-guided training program using both online and hands-on training. And empowered our upper class students to train their student colleagues.
Mary Schantz, Director of User Services
The College of Wooster
Vukovich Room 203 – Faculty Fellowship Program
The goals of the program are to increase the number of faculty taking advantage of Web 2.0 and other technologies in their teaching and scholarship, to familiarize faculty with tools and project types with which Instructional Technology can help, and to help faculty learn how to assess technology projects. Participants will also be expected to develop course units to be implemented in one of their Fall courses and to participate in continuing dialog throughout the Fall Semester, and share their work with their colleagues in a faculty development event, such as Teaching Matters, Research Matters, or a brown-bag session.
Jon Breitenbucher, Ph.D.
The College of Wooster
Vukovich Library 3rd Floor – Adventures in Introducing Project Management/Process Improvement
Allegheny College is beginning to employ project management/process improvement techniques for managing major projects. We will present a brief overview of what we have achieved so far. An open discussion will follow for participants to share their experiences and/or ask questions.
Christine Rick, Programmer/Analyst
Allegheny College