NORTHERN VIRGINIA COMMUNITY COLLEGE
 1998-99 Technology Plan
 

Introduction
 
Northern Virginia Community College believes that education is the cornerstone of a free society. In keeping with the mission of the Virginia Community College system, the mission of NVCC is to respond to the educational needs of a changing community and its institutions, ensuring that all individuals in the Northern Virginia area have an opportunity to develop and enhance their values, skills and knowledge. To achieve this mission, the following general goals are established:

    1. To provide programs and courses of instruction, through the associate degree level, encompassing occupational-technical education, college transfer education, general education, developmental education, training for business and government, continuing education and community services, and experience in the work environment.
    2. To provide a comprehensive program of student development services.
    3. To provide a broad range of instructional methods, materials, facilities, and instructional support services that accommodate students of varied backgrounds, interests and abilities.
    4. To create an educational environment that encourages and supts the highest level of performance.
    5. To enhance economic, cultural, and educational partnerships between the College and the community.
As the global information economy emerges in the coming decades, higher education will experience fundamental changes. Embracing these changes, NVCC will continue to meet the needs of the people of Northern Virginia by deploying advanced computing and communications technologies and by utilizing these technologies to: . Enhance the quality of the educational opportunities we provide to the local community while controlling costs and sustaining open access,

. Re-engineer our business practices to achieve efficiencies and economies that help to control costs while improving the quality of administrative services, and

. Foster economic development in cooperation with other educational institutions and economic development initiatives in our region.

 Building on this vision, NVCC establishes in this general technology plan specific objectives in each of the areas necessary to realize the vision created by the VCCS plan. In developing this plan, NVCC accepts both the strategic direction established for VCCS and many of the specific technologies described in the VCCS plan.

Critical Success Factors

To implement this plan, NVCC recognizes that the following critical factors must be present:

. Executive commitment at NVCC to the strategic use of these technologies.

. Appropriate funding, including new resources, continuation of technology funding, creative local financing and the reallocation of existing resources.

. Quality customer service and end-user support.

. Technical proficiency in both computing and communications technologies and large-scale change management, either from an internal source or from external consultants.

. Comprehensive training programs for faculty and staff.

. Effective communications within the college community with respect to the implementation process and the expected outcomes.

. Application of the technology in both instruction and administration.

. Effective followership by the college community based on confidence in the system.

 Successful implementation of this plan requires that NVCC approach technology planning from a college-wide perspective rather than as an uncoordinated collection of individual efforts of various departments and campuses. Funds will be allocated to achieve the Technology Plan goals throughout the entire college.

Technology Objectives:

1. Position NVCC as a leading academic institution in the Northern Virginia geographic area with respect to use of technology.

2. Develop a responsive posture to the needs of students, businesses and government agencies in our community.

3. Encourage active discussion, experimentation in and adoption of new applications in the use of technology to aid the learning process.

4. Share resources, skills and knowledge with academic, business and industrial organizations in our area.

   5.  Attract both credit and non-credit students to NVCC, using our position in technology as a motivating factor.

6.  Provide leadership through a pragmatic computing plan for 1998-99 beyond.

7.  Enhance the Teaching and Learning Environment through innovative use of technology.

8.  Provide a detailed spending plan to accomplish the goals of the Plan.

 Current Technology Environment

In support of our long-term goal for any-to-any connectivity, and in support of the VCCS minimum standards and application guidelines, Northern Virginia Community College fully implemented its 1997-98 Technology Plan. The following summarizes the technology environment created at the College as a result of this plan.

Applications

A special academic interface to the World Wide Web (NOVAONLINE) was established to facilitate access to instructional courses, modules and resources. Access to College publications, the Catalog, Class Schedules and other information was made available on the WWW through links on the College's home page. Policies and procedures for managing use of the WWW were developed.

More than 56 courses added WWW components, 11 new asynchronous distance learning courses were developed for delivery through the WWW, 7 new asynchronous distance learning courses in other formats were offered, and 24 courses were developed for offering through compressed video. The College was an active participant in offering distance learning courses statewide through the Virginia Distance Education Network and the SREB Electronic Campus, and now has over 120 distance learning courses available.

Through the College Technical Applications Center, faculty and staff were provided with access and training in web development software, electronic discussion group software, and presentation software.

An on-line grading system that allowed faculty to enter final student grades directly from their desktop was developed and implemented to take advantage of the computers on faculty desks. This eliminated the need for thousands of scan sheets and hundreds of hours of manual labor involved in processing grades.

Financial support was provided to each Campus Information Technology Group/Teaching Learning Technology Roundtable to support mentoring programs, experimentation, research, and the software/hardware needed to implement these activities.

Desktops

All faculty and staff received a fully-featured networked computer on their desktop with e-mail, Internet access, and the Microsoft Office Suite. Dial-up access to faculty/staff e-mail was made available through the web for those with their own Internet Service Provider

Infrastructure

More than 5,000 data and/or voice connections (i.e., cable drops/jacks) were installed in offices, classrooms, and student laboratories. Existing communications rooms were expanded, and approximately 15 new communications rooms were constructed. Between these building/floor comm rooms and local service closets/cabinets installed for lab/classroom support, hub and related communications equipment (including 29 control access units and 125 lobe attachment modules) was added to the NVCC network. In addition, $94,500 was invested in network backbone equipment (for upgrades to previously purchased backbone components, plus the purchase of 11 token ring switches).

A complement of 19 new servers provides network services across this upgraded infrastructure. All the servers operate under Windows NT. As new services are added, the Technical Support Services staff monitors and adjusts loads across these servers, and plans additional capacity requirements. Currently, five of the servers function as campus file servers, and six are domain controller/print servers. The other units are devoted to: Web services; faculty/staff e-mail; student e-mail; SQL and SMS; Oracle; phone system; back-up to phone system; tape back-up. Plans are underway to add a separate file server for College staff requirements in the Brault (Administration) Building.

The phone system mentioned above is an "open-PBX" type. The software runs on a server equipped with Dialogic hardware. Feature offerings include on-premises voice mail, automatic call distribution, interactive voice response, auto-attendant and computer-telephony integration ("screen pop" capability and unified voice/fax/e-mail messaging using Microsoft Exchange.) The voice mail portions of the system are being pilot-tested in the Financial Aid and Purchasing offices. The full system is being installed to support the newly created Technical Support Help Desk.

A Help Desk was established based on McAfee's HelpDesk product (licensed both centrally at Technical Support Services, and locally, at each campus) to assist in the tracking and resolution of technical support calls.

Training

Campus Computer Applications Training: To support the computer rollout in the summer of 1997, NVCC hired a training contractor to provide a technology instructional assistant/trainer on each campus during the fall semester. Throughout the fall, and continuing with 3 full-time trainers in the spring, these campus technology instructional assistants provided both formal training courses and ad hoc training and consulting assistance to individual faculty and staff. More than 750 faculty and staff members participated in the formal training classes, including introductory, intermediate, and advanced level courses in Windows 95, MS-Word, MS-Access, MS-Excel, and MS-PowerPoint, as well as introductory courses in Internet Explorer, Microsoft Exchange or Outlook E-Mail, PC Troubleshooting, Windows NT networking, and Home Page design. In all, the participants enrolled in nearly 3,000 training classes through this program alone.

Technical Staff Training: The Technology Training program also supported the enrollment of more than 70 key technology support staff in advanced level courses on the operating systems that run the college computers and networks. The classes provided used the Microsoft curriculum for courses in Windows NT Server Administration and Windows 95 Installation and Support. We chose to have these courses taught at an authorized technical education center to ensure that those taking the course work got standardized technical training. This also permits our staff to seek Microsoft certifications if they wish. Specific training was also provided to power users for Help Desk software and other products.

Training Materials: The technology budget funded the acquisition, production, and printing of 15 titles of custom computer training manuals to support the teaching of our computer applications classes for faculty and staff. It also provided basic software reference guides to each division and office, as well as textbooks to support more advanced technology courses such as Object Oriented Design. The college purchased licenses for 66 computer based training programs to make training for MCSE classes, Office 95, and numerous other programs available through the college intranet.

Teaching Learning Technology Roundtables: Each campus received funding to support the use of instructional technologies in the classroom. Campuses developed and implemented mentoring programs, paid for travel to conferences and specialized workshops, provided software and ancillary hardware necessary for implementing technology in the classroom, and provided faculty with release time through these funds.

Technology Training Funded from Other Sources: Faculty and Classified Staff Tuition Assistance funding through the Human Resource Development budget and local funds have supported enrollment in more than 150 technology-related credit and continuing education courses at institutions such as George Mason University, Virginia Commonwealth University, University of Maryland, Rutgers University, Strayer College, Lord Fairfax Community College, and NVCC. Such courses included Web Page Design, Computer Science, Visual Basic, TCP/IP, Virtual Design, UNIX, Oracle, C++, WAN, LAN, Java, and others.

The Human Resource Development Budget also provided funds for discipline-specific conferences and job-related technology training for both faculty and staff. Divisional funds set aside for professional development, as well as operating funds in various units, were also used to support numerous technical training activities.

The College Technical Applications Center, along with campus staff, offered numerous workshops to over 240 faculty and staff on developing and using web-based applications and compressed video. They also held a Summer Institute for 75 faculty, offering hands-on experience and demonstrations of technology-based instructional applications and tools. In addition to the workshops, TAC provided faculty with access to a wide variety of web-application tools, such as web editing software, electronic discussion group software, and presentation software.

Governance and Support

The Technology Governance process at the College was reviewed and revised slightly to insure participation by all campus and staff units. Campus Information Technology Groups/Teaching Learning Technology Roundtables have formal roles in the governance process through the Information Technology Committee.

Technical support staff were deployed on all campuses, and a central Help Desk was created. A new application support unit, the Technical Applications Center, was established to help faculty and staff employ new technology.

 

1998-1999 Technology Goals

Based on the College's mission, strategic planning, accomplishments of the past two years and the current directions established for the VCCS, the following technology goals have been identified for the College:
 

Applications Goals

Faculty and staff members will use general office software tools on a regular basis to communicate with each other and with students.

General office software will be kept current (i.e., about I8 months maximum behind a current release).

A world wide web (WWW) home page and topic pages will be created and maintained for the college and each division. They will provide general college information services to students, staff and the public.

Network file and print services will meet VCCS guidelines

E-mail (POP3 compliant) including directory services will be available for every faculty and staff member, and for every student

Registration for services (e.g., E-mail)will follow the on-line registration application model that includes directory services, security, etc.

COV 95-1 disaster recovery planning documents will be completed. This includes impact and risk assessments for the whole College as well as each campus location to identify appropriate security, firewall, and disaster recovery processes that need to be installed following the appropriate VCCS models.

Year 2000 review and action program as outlined by the Council for Information Management will be completed. Monthly status reports on activities as mandated by the Commonwealth of Virginia will be submitted.

VCCS policy 5.2.0.1 Computer Competency Requirements will be implemented.

The College will continue to contribute to the definition and design of the SIS model. The College will use the SIS model, when available, to prepare a college implementation plan for SIS.

The College will continue to participate in the process to convert to RADSS and new technologies in order to accommodate the new SIS database.

The College will implement IHRIS as soon as possible within the Department of Personnel and Training timetable and guidelines.

Resource 25 modules will be implemented, when available, to improve facilities scheduling, usage, and reporting through appropriate Resource 25 modules.

The College will continue to participate in the definition of requirements for a new Administrative Information System.

The College will develop a program of training for all appropriate staff in the Oracle products now available for use.

a. Concepts of relational data base

b. Query tools - reports, tabulations, labels, etc.

c. Application design and code generation

 The College will convert or build at least one more new course based upon technology at each campus.

Desktop Goals

The College will meet the VCCS guidelines for desktop computer access:

      a.  There will be a fully-featured Pentium networked computer that meets VCCS technical guidelines on every faculty and staff desk.

      b.  There will be a minimum of one fully-featured Pentium a minimum of one computer for each 7% of FTES for student access in classrooms or labs that meets or exceeds minimum VCCS technical guidelines

Infrastructure Goals

All primary workstation and laboratory microcomputers will continue to be connected to the campus network, and the campus network will continue to be accessible in all campus locations (offices, labs, classrooms, auditoria, etc.).

The network on each campus will continue to meet guidelines for cable and service levels.

Each campus network will continue to be connected to VCCnet following the System Office instructions and guidelines.

Faculty, staff, and students will continue to have dial-in access to the VCCS Intranet through a local Internet service provider (ISP).

Each campus will continue to maintain at least one compressed video Commonwealth classrooms.

Commonwealth Classrooms will be upgraded by conversion to ATM switched technology for point to point (2 locations) videoconference /distance learning sessions to eliminate the video bridge component for 2 way sessions.

Proxy servers and software will be installed to allow remote access to data bases and other resources.

The College will establish additional Intranet applications (e.g., a Net News capability for discussion groups, a push news delivery approach, chat rooms for collaborative projects).

Training Goals

On-campus and off-campus professional development programs will be conducted that maximize faculty and staff exposure within the following categories.

a. General office tools & techniques
b.  Instructional tools & techniques
c.  New application tools and techniques The College will continue to monitor and promote the acquisition of technology certification by the faculty and staff.

Governance and Support Goals

The College's needs for functional technical support have been assessed, and the College will

a. Provide customer services through generalist technical support.

b. Provide technical services support through a central division staffed by appropriately trained engineers and on-campus technical staff.

 Teaching and Learning Goals

The College will pursue curricular changes within academic disciplines and programs to incorporate information emanating from new technologies into course content where appropriate.

The College will, through training and other support mechanisms, encourage teaching faculty in developing the technological skills appropriate for their discipline or program.

The College will support continued operation of Teaching Learning Technology Roundtables on each campus and at the College level.

The College will provide training in software applications that deal with course content as well as with instructional techniques and administrative skills.

 

Technology Projects and Budgets

In order to accomplish the technology goals established for 1998-99, the following projects have been established.

Support Services ($ 675,000)

Salaries for the 10 Technology Positions covered by the Technology Plan will be continued. ($525,000)

Additional Technology Lab Support will be added through student hires to provide increased assistance in the campus computer labs. ($150,000)

Technical Applications Center activities will be continued through its staff of generalists. (Funding is included in regular College budgets and through continuation of the funds for Technology positions.)

College Help Desk activities will be continued through Technical Support Services staff, newly acquired technical infrastructure and software, and continuation of the funds for Technology positions.
 

  Application Development ($ 137,500) Each campus/college staff office will develop specific written plans in cooperation with its Campus Information Technology Group/Teaching Learning Technology Roundtable to provide for mentoring release time, discipline-related software, ancillary equipment, and other technology-related purchases. Through these plans, the College will research, develop and implement projects that will cultivate technology in the classroom delivery systems and in fundamental operations of the College. These plans will provide for development of home pages for each division and development of at least one course at each campus based on technology. The allocations to administrative units will also support the process re-engineering, design and implementation of new administrative systems.

In conjunction with these activities, each campus/College staff office will assess the adequacy of the current technology plan for meeting the College's needs. They will also develop technology objectives and priorities for the future.

The allocation of funds to each unit shown below is based on the College's regular enrollment-driven budget allocation model.

Application Development Budget Allocations

  
Campus/Office
Allocation
Alexandria
$ 29,466
Annandale
42,800
Loudoun
11,256
Manassas
9,921
Woodbridge
14,744
Extended Learning Institute
5,937
Academic & Student Services
6,463
Administrative & Financial Services
15,400
College Marketing & Public Affairs
1,100
President's Office
413
 

Virtual Campus

A "Virtual Campus" interface to the WWW will be developed to facilitate access for distant learners and other students to the full range of College services and to courses available at a distance. (Funding is included in regular College budgets and through continuation of the funds for Technology positions.) Distance Learning The College will continue to develop both its asynchronous and synchronous distance learning courses using the WWW and other appropriate technologies. These courses will be made available statewide through the Virginia Distance Education Network, the SREB Electronic Campus, and the Commonwealth Electronic Campus. Emphasis will be placed on developing and supporting full degree programs and providing full access to student support services. (Funding is included in regular College budgets and through the application development funds above.) Disaster Recovery The College will assemble teams to plan, and manage if necessary, disaster recovery options for failure of major systems. Planning will be done to accommodate potential major failures of systems run by the VCC Technical Utility, systems run by NVCC Technical Support Services, unforeseen problems resulting from implementation of the new SIS and administrative systems, failures of the compressed video network, and system failures resulting from conversion problems related to the Year 2000 (both within and outside College systems). (Funding is included in regular College budgets, through the application development funds and through continuation of the funds for Technology positions.) Student E-mail Student e-mail will be fully implemented and supported on each campus according to VCCS guidelines. The necessary infrastructure and software are in place. Promotion activities and support will be provided to assist students in obtaining the necessary access. Remote access through the WWW will also be provided for those students who have their own Internet Service Provider. (Funding is included in regular College budgets and through continuation of the funds for Technology positions.) Year 2000 conversions ($ 100,000) Total conversion of the NVCC SIS/FIS will take approximately 4,496 hours of effort. One additional half-time position has now been dedicated from another office to meet increased state Year 2000 compliance requirements. Funds are included in the budget for overtime, temporary hires or for contracting with an outside company to take over management and conversion if that becomes necessary. Oracle Training/Implementation ($ 20,000) Using a train-the-trainers model, advanced training will be provided for at least one individual at each campus, one in the Systems Development group, and one from the Technical Support Services database staff; basic training will be provided for at least 11 additional campus and College staff. The VCCS Oracle contract only covers training for two at the advanced level and three or four at the basic level. Resource 25 and SIS Conversion Planning/Implementation ($52,500) The architecture, training, and implementation costs for the required Resource 25 modules and the new SIS have not been determined. . We expect the VCCS to license one user per campus. At Northern, additional resources beyond those provided by the VCCS contracts may l be needed. The VCCS does not plan to provide the Schedule 25 and Model 25 modules that accompany Resource 25, so the College may wish to purchase these separately. Conversion to Office 97 ($ 40,000) Approximately 1,000 licenses will be needed to upgrade from Microsoft Office for Windows95 to Office 97. Additional training and documentation beyond the basic licenses will also be required. Compressed Video Network Upgrades ($ 115,000) The original Vtel 227 codec will be replaced with codecs that are video standards based, and that have an ATM-25 interface to connect them to the campus ATM switch. A new, 12 port ATM-25 interface module will be needed in the campus ATM switch to connect the new codec to the ATM network. This new module will replace the ATM DS-1 module currently in the switch. Computer Upgrades ($ 862,077) The following plan for computer purchases covered by the 1998-99 Technology Plan is based on replacing the 486-class computers that were included in the 1997-98 Technology Plan plus the additional Pentium-class computers required to meet VCCS requirements. At its June 1998 meeting, the College Information Technology Committee approved including the Macs at Alexandria and Loudoun in the College Technology Plan. This increases the total number of computers covered by the Technology Plan, required to meet VCCS requirements, as follows:                                 PCs                                                 2,493
                                Student-use and faculty Macs         155
                                                                                        2,648 Since all of the Pentiums covered by the Technology Plan are less than 4 years old (the planned replacement cycle), only 376 new PCs will be purchased centrally to replace Technology Plan 486s and those required to bring campuses up to the VCCS required minimums. A maximum of 72 Macintosh computers will be purchased to replace older Macintosh computers that are below Pentium-level. Additional computers beyond these covered by the Plan will be purchased with other funds available to the individual units.

Inventories show 3,611 computers currently in use at the College with 176 of those being 386-level or below. All computers below 486-level will be replaced. The number of new computers being purchased should free up enough 486-computers to replace fully all 386 or older computers. The distribution of new computers is shown below. In allocating the newest computers, priority will be given to student labs and power users.

 1998-99 New Computer Distribution
Campus
PCs
 New Macs 
AL
84
50
AN
164
  
LO
40
22
MA
26
  
WO
36
  
CS
26
  
TOTAL
376
72
 

Infrastructure Upgrades ($185,000)

College-wide virus protection ($ 40,000) McAfee Total Virus Defense (or equivalent) will be installed on all desktops and servers.                     Firewall and Proxy servers ($ 50,000)  Firewall and proxy servers for each campus will be purchased and installed, allowing remote access to VIVA databases and other resources, and will provide additional network security.                     E-mail/database servers ($30,000) Two additional servers to back-up e-mail and data bases will be purchased and installed.                     UPS power supplies for communication closets ($ 20,000) Two APC UPS units with temperature and humidity sensors will be purchased for critical servers at each campus.                     Network Completion ($45,000) Cabling of smaller buildings and additional network connections that have been requested since the initial network installation will be completed; and a separate server for the Brault Building on the Annandale Campus will be purchased and installed. Current cabling projects include: Annandale:

CT304 - Office
CS124 - Office
A&R - 2 LAN Drops
CG 209 - Counseling Center
Six additional drops in room 109 of the Brault building
Geology Lab
CG 202J
Activate drops in CM 114, CM 242, Dining Room, CM 123 and CM105.

Alexandria:

AE building classrooms
Tool Room - 2 drops

Woodbridge:

RM 231
HVAC Building
Photo & Design Building
RM 405
Riser cabling

Loudoun:

Vet Tech, IDS & Science lab buildings.
Maintenance building - one additional drop.
RM 138 Mac Lab
RM 268 Mac Lab

Manassas:

Cabling in conduit to MS building
Termination of automotive building fiber
MC240 - Math Lab

 Training ($ 150,000) Campus Technology Instruction and Training ($ 65,000)

Orientation and application training will be provided on the campuses by technology instructional assistants or contract trainers. Individual assistance will be provided to users in their office environment and group application courses and training will be provided in campus computer labs. The HR technology training coordinator will be responsible for implementing this plan, hosting group meetings for trainers and Campus Training Coordinators and managing the technology training budget. Applications training up to the advanced level will include: Windows 95, Introduction to the Internet, MS-Word, MS-Access, MS-Excel. MS-PowerPoint, Microsoft Exchange or Outlook E-Mail, and Home Page design (on appropriate software). This applications training will also include training for upgrades of the listed software programs or other new programs selected for purchase by the Information Technology Committee (e.g., Windows 98 or Office 97 upgrades). This funding is estimated to provide 40+ weeks of training during the year, scheduled so as to accommodate maximum participation of and support to faculty and staff.

College Technical Support Staff ($ 20,000)

Continued training in TCP/IP, Local Area Networks/Wide Area Networks (LAN/WAN), Windows NT support, network administration, system engineering, installation, maintenance, security, and other training requirements associated with the technical operations of the Client/Server Intranet-Based Computing Environment will be provided to College Technical Support Staff as needed. Training requirements are to be identified by the Director of Technical Support Services. Individuals enrolled in extensive and expensive training programs may be required to sign a contract indicating that they will work at the college for a certain period upon completion of training or reimburse the college for the cost of their training.

Instructional Support Staff ($ 15,000)

Specialized training for instructional technologists, instructional assistants, and other instructional support staff will be provided so they can acquire the expertise and skills necessary for them to assist others at the College to take advantage of modern PC-based instructional technologies. These include training courses that promote instructional applications development using the Internet, multi-media presentations, netmeetings, databases, Windows NT, LAN, graphic layout and design, etc.. It also covers any training cost associated with implementation and maintenance of the student financial aid management system, loans, grants, etc. Individuals enrolled in extensive and expensive training programs may be required to sign a contract indicating that they will work at the college for a certain period upon completion of training or reimburse the college for the cost of their training.

Campus Technology Support Staff ($ 10,000)

Technical training will be provided for positions that support the procurement, installation, maintenance, and operations of the campus local area networks as needed. These positions include Installation and Repair Supervisors (Information Technology Managers), Agency Management Analysts (Information Technology Specialists), Computer Network Support Technicians, Instructional Center Staff, and others. Training will cover in installing computers, upgrading computers, troubleshooting, local area network maintenance, and network management and security. Individuals enrolled in extensive and expensive training programs may be required to sign a contract indicating that they will work at the college for a certain period upon completion of training or reimburse the college for the cost of their training.

Other Training Programs ($10,000)

Other training courses will be provided that will not be offered by the campus technology instructional assistant but which may be required by some faculty and staff members who are not covered by other funding categories. These courses include, but are not limited to, the following: advanced level courses in Microsoft Office, Home Page design, Windows NT, introduction to the LAN, PC troubleshooting, graphics layout and design, multimedia presentations, SQL servers, Oracle systems support, SIS systems, Resource 25, and additional state-mandated or other applications. Transition courses may be offered for those who have already acquired skills in particular applications and are converting from one proprietary program to another. Participation in other technology related courses, credit and non-credit, offered through NVCC may also be funded. Individuals enrolled in extensive and expensive training programs may be required to sign a contract indicating that they will work at the college for a certain period upon completion of training or reimburse the college for the cost of their training.

Office Technology Assistants ($ 10,000)

Additional training for office technology assistants to assist their respective offices with local hardware and software problems will be provided. Each organizational or office unit's designated staff member (the "Office Technology Assistant") may receive training in troubleshooting basic PC problems, network printer problems, and training to the advanced level in application software. They may also need to take courses in Windows NT, LAN introduction, and PC troubleshooting. These designees will be the first person called when help is needed with the PC or other peripheral equipment. Individuals enrolled in extensive and expensive training programs may be required to sign a contract indicating that they will work at the college for a certain period upon completion of training or reimburse the college for the cost of their training.

Training Manuals and Videos, Text Books, Computer Based Training Programs, and other training media: ($20,000):

Instructional manuals needed to supplement classroom and computer based training instruction for faculty and staff wishing to improve their technology skills will be provided. Course textbooks for technical courses, reference books for offices or library reserve, satellite courses or other subscriptions, computer based training software, may also be covered. The specific training materials will be determined by the Information Technology Committee with input from the Campus and College Staff Information Technology Groups.

 Spending Plan Summary

FUNDS AVAILABLE FOR TECHNOLOGY PLAN IMPLEMENTATION

ETF for Technology Equipment                                 $ 862,077
Student Fee @ $1                                                          625,000
Additional 50c Fee (Spring 99 only)                             150,000
General Fund & Prof Development funds                     700,000

                                                                                    $ 2,337,077
 

EXPENDITURE SUMMARY

        Continuation of Salaries for Technology Positions     $ 525,000
        Technology Lab Support Staff                                          150,000
        Application Development                                                  137,500
        Year 2000 conversions                                                      100,000
        Oracle Training/Implementation                                          20,000
        Resource 25 and SIS Planning/Implementation               52,500
        Conversion to Office 97                                                       40,000
        Compressed Video Network Upgrades                          115,000
       Computer Upgrades                                                           862,077
        Infrastructure Upgrades                                                     185,000
        Training                                                                               150,000

                                        Total                                              $ 2,337,077
 

This page maintained by Steven G. Sachs, Associate Dean for Information Technology

Last update: 11/9/98
nvsachs@nvcc.edu