NETWORK TECHNOLOGY
ADVISORY COMMITTEE
MINUTES
Wednesday, May 9, 2012
6:00 PM ~ 7:30 PM
JSH 124
Members Present Representing
Jeff Groff, Committee Chair Clark PUD
Nathan Kostrba The Columbian
Members Absent
Randy Rooney Integra Telecom
Joe Edelen Daimler Trucks North America, LLC
Dave Scheuch Clark County OBIS
Jamie Daubenspeck ECOS Consulting
Wade Stewart EOCFWA
Gary Liberman, Vice Chair Earthlink
Clark College
Dwight Hughes NTEC Professor/Department Head
Robert Hughes CTEC Division Chair
William Hafer CTEC Instructor
Ambra Peters NTEC Instructor
Jack Sande NTEC Instructor
Matt Wells CTEC Adjunct
Dedra Daehn Director, Academic Services & Innovation
John Maduta Advising Divisional Manager-Professional
Technical Programs
Meeting was called to order at 6:10 PM by Mr. Jeff Groff, Committee Chair.
Review of the Minutes of the Previous Meeting:
Professor Dwight Hughes said that the Network area has done a solid job of updating Linux. A motion was made to approve the minutes as written. The motion was seconded and unanimously approved.
Advisory Business:
Ms. Dedra Daehn reviewed the 2011-2012 Work Plan – what items to carry forward and those that have been completed and also any new items for the next work plan. Item 1 – 4 year articulation has come to a standstill except for EWU. Unfortunately, the other colleges have not stepped forward. The committee said to drop this item for now and add it back in later when it comes back up.
Hybrid Course:
John Maduta said Federal University has announced they are looking to accept AAS and AAT students for a four year degree and these classes are offered on-line.
Professor Hughes said Hybrid – definitely want to offer some of these classes as a hybrid. Leave this item in the Work Plan.
Marketing: Recruit advisory committee members and foster industry partnerships. Matt Wells suggested Professor Dwight Hughes look at recruiting teachers from K-12 schools in this area. Professor Dwight Hughes said operating on-line classes should help with many of the students who have difficulty traveling to the campus. He thinks enrollment will really go up once split courses are offered. Last item referring to enrollment will remain on the Work Plan.
Sabbatical Update:
Professor Dwight said his research has led him to believe cyber security can be done. However, he said this would be a four year degree. CISP or CCNP security – these are the two Professor Dwight finalized for Clark College to offer. CISP requires 4-5 year experience. Professor Dwight will list skills from these two and he will ask employers to pick top three skills they want to see in the security employees. Professor Dwight said cost to offer these will be high but may have difficulty finding instructors to teach these courses. Data Center resources and discussion on next steps – never had funding but state of Washington has funded $285,000 for a data center. Details of the data center equipment will be announced in the fall. First class should come out in spring 2013. State will want Clark to start using the grant as early as July this summer. Professor Dwight will send out a list of costing of equipment to the advisory members.
Telecom Course:
Professor Dwight said he would need to stop offering DNET 211. Equipment is wearing out and they are over ten years old. This is a required course for Cisco degree so another class has to be located to replace this.
Expansion of AAT Degree Programming Specialty Options – Professor Bob Hughes said a lot of students having difficulty finding program specialty classes. He said he is proposing four more classes that would be a good fit, CTEC 110, CTEC 104, CTEC 200, CGT 106. Professor Bob would like a final vote from the entire committee on adding these four classes as program specialty area requirements.
MCITP:
Professor Ambra Peters said Microsoft recently changed their certification. They are creating additional certification like MCITP which is a professional expert certification. This is a cloud based certification – new one is called Microsoft SSE which is now a new certification on Microsoft Cloud certification. Microsoft curriculum is the MOWAK.
The NTEC Advisory Committee gave an informal support for the direction that Ambra proposed. Professor Dwight said he is asking IT to buy some RAM for the PC’s. He said they would need two to four gigs of RAM as there are not enough in the DNET labs at this time.
Professor Bob Hughes gave an update on CTEC Outcomes and Assessment and the movement towards ITSTE skill standards.
Outreach:
Professor Ambra Peters said she is working with K through 12 schools so that students are followed from elementary to high schools and ultimately helps them enter colleges. She said this prepares them for tests and gets them involved in the community for Vancouver School District.
Computer Support Specialist Program:
Professor Bob Hughes said he, has been working on this with Bob and Adam. At the fall meeting Professor Bob would like to show off the new sign and parking spot.
Meeting was adjounred at 7:42 PM.
Next Meeting – Early October.
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