Steering Committee Update—Dec. 21, 2010

Staff Development Committee update

• Amy reported on their recent conference call (see the Staff Dev. Comm. Notes for Dec. 2010 below for details)

Technical Infrastructure Committee update

• Steering Committee discussed and approved Kenyon’s request to purchase a Nikon slide scanner using the central equipment fund.
• TIC members held interviews for the Interface Specialist position last week at OWU. Since then, Catalina has contacted references. The committee will make a recommendation after break. Mark and Susan will try to join their conference call.

Campus updates

• Oberlin, Denison, Kenyon, and Wooster are all awaiting submissions in their next round of proposals.
• OWU: they’ve just awarded two new grants and a third has been sent back for revisions. The awarded grants will be posted once they receive the faculty acceptance letters.

Other news:

• Amy will be writing a response to the Ohio5 Board, following up on their letter after the most recent board meeting.
• The first webinar in our Summon implementation will be on Jan. 5 at 11 a.m. The focus will be on Core 360, but we hope to learn more at that point about the implementation schedule and future training.