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BOROUGH OF MANHATTAN COMMUNITY COLLEGE
The City University of New York
COLLEGE COUNCIL
Minutes February 24, 2010
I. President Pérez called the meeting to order at 2:10 PM
II. ATTENDANCE – Everyone attended except:
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Adula, Kadidja
Anderson, Emily
Apfaltrer, Felix
Blake, James
Carr, John
Chichester, Rawle
Chorley, Richard
Dabkowski, Kamil
Diaz, Robert
Fraser, Indira
Gray, Chad
Hernandez, Joel
Hjelle, Ann
Hong, Jeff
Kalogeropoulos, Nikolaus
Lopez Moreno, Amparo
Maimon, Eric
Mathaheva, Victor
Montanez, John
Narvaez, Christian
Nichols, Jacqueline
Nunez, Jason
Palmer, Lisa
Pamplin, M. Claire
Rankin, Kevon
Rosen, Barry
Sales, Angela
Sanchez, Oneida
Smoke, Gary
Soto, June
Wasserman, Carol
Wenderoff, Karen
Wist, Gregory
Ye, Lin
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III. APPROVAL OF MINUTES:
A. The minutes of the November 25, 2009 College Council Meeting were approved unanimously.
B. After the Council had approved the minutes, Professor Phil Belcastro pointed out there may have been an error in the minutes in reporting a vote.
C. Professor Miller, Chair of the Elections Committee, and Professor Schick, the College Council Secretary, will investigate and report back to the Council.
IV. STANDING COMMITTEE REPORTS
A. Technology Committee (See Attachment # 1)
B. In addition to the above report, Mr. Tom Lew stated that all rooms scheduled for a technology upgrade had been completed, and that there would be a survey taken at the end of March about technology support.
VI. OLD BUSINESS:
VII. NEW BUSINESS:
A. In the minutes of the October 2009 College Council meeting, the Secretary of the College Council omitted the record of a vote taken during that meeting.
B. In order to add the record of this vote to the October 2009 minutes, Professor Schick brought a motion to the Council to amend the October 2009 minutes.
C. This motion passed unanimously.
VIII. President Pérez adjourned the meeting at 2:25 PM.
Attachment # 1
Technology Committee
Minutes for the February 3, 2010 meeting
Attending: Alicia Perdomo, Yakov Genis, Tom Lew, Bill Guttenplan
Absent: Victor Mahateva, Jason Nunez
The meeting was called to order at 3:15.
Minutes of the November 4th meeting were distributed, updated and approved.
Old Business:
1. Use of clickers is being piloted in both a nursing course and a science course. Hope to have some preliminary results to report during the spring semester.
2. Faculty will be able to access their “G” and “H” drives from TEC rooms. Instructions are in the process of being drafted.
3. Use of net books is being piloted by the math department for 25 Math sections.
4. Faculty will be surveyed for Technologically Enhanced Classroom usage (see attached). Results will be forwarded to College Council.
New Business
1. A suggestion was made to increase storage capacity for faculty email accounts to 5-10 gigabytes. Victor Mahateva will address this issue at the next Tech Committee meeting.
2. Tom Lew announced that all lecture rooms at the 199 Chambers Street campus have been transformed into TEC (Technology Enhanced Classrooms).
3. Prof. Genis asked regarding the viability of using net books for his CIS class. Either for special events or a onetime deal.
The next meeting of the committee will be scheduled for March.
Respectfully submitted,
William Guttenplan
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