Ted Wolter         CGCC    Bob Albury         GCC
    Alan Levine        DO      Brad Kincaid       MCC
    Jerrilee Mosier    DO      Joan Ritsch        PC
    Tracy Price        DO      Jeanne Franco      PVCC
    Fred Gaudet        GWCC    Doug Sawyer        SCC
    Rosemary Kesler    GWCC    Ken Roberts        SMCC

• November 17, 11:00 AM, Room 311, District. "Technology: Putting the Pieces Together, Technology Planning Strategies"
• December 9, 11:00 AM, Room 311, District. "Implementing Campus Technology Support Strategies"

Manny asked the group to help with the All Faculty Convocation '98 Ocotillo Panel Discussion. Doug Sawyer, Bob Albury, Joan Ritsch, Jeanne Franco, and either Ken Roberts or Mary Long all offered to help out.

July 11-14 is 1998 AAHE Summer Institute, again at the South Mountain Pointe Resort.

The 1998 Ocotillo Retreat will be on May 19-20, 1998. Possibility of Topic oriented session(s) instead of College based ones. They would like to review last years agenda etc. - briefly. The December chairs meeting will be the planning meeting. Is it possible to bring in consultants from AAHE? (Yes!)

Tech Plan at OSU
Dr. Jerrilee Mosier, ACE Fellow and Vice Provost of Academic Affairs at Oklahoma State University/Oklahoma City will shared OSU's experiences/ challenges in developing their faculty-driven technology plan.

• Established goals for Academic Affairs Department
• Listed computer needs
• Investigated how to best accomplish this
• Brought in a consultant within the Dallas Community College District
  • Day 1 - Discussed dreams - if they werenÕt broad enough then tried to plant seeds for further discussion [Closed discussion - specific depts]
  • Day 2 - Developed plan [Open discussion - all college]
• Annual activities to discuss and accomplish over three year plan.
• Each year they discussed their objectives and where they were at in the plan stages - Were they making progress?
• Assessment - On students success rate - How interested were they?
• They did more adoption rather than development of software.
• For 4500 students & staff - 400k a year
• Board of Regents adopted a plan to charge the students $1 per credit hour that would go into this fund.
• Staff training; If the students had to be required to know certain software/hardware programs than the staff did too.
• The plan asked for Grant money to help with ongoing fund.
• Staff support: 1 ID specialist and staff/students available at the Learning Center.
• For those in fear of technology, they were given release time so they could become comfortable with technology in a low stress environment
• Some classrooms do have computers and are connected to the Internet
• "Students teaching Students"; Peer tutoring in the Learning Center to bring down costs.

Roundtable Updates
See the Ocotillo Roundtable directory

Manny wanted to have everyoneÕs draft of their plans by November 17th. General consensus was that that this might be a little too early.

• SCC - Called for entire campus needs assessment; gathered data and came up with 7 categories; broke up into 7 subcommittees that are now discussing the needs; they do have their goals - but are reviewing them to prioritize; presented the list of objectives to campus and asked for feedback on how to achieve objectives.
• GCC - Bob Albury passed out their 5-year Lab Plan [sent out via campus mail]; see also http://www.gc.maricopa.edu/apollo/desktop/GCC/crc.html
• PC - They are still working on their plan.
• MCC - They have a plan, but it was not written by Ocotillo committee. They also have groups that are working on each element.
• CGCC - Ted Wolter has their IT Plan broken up into subcommittees that are working on sections of the plan.
• GWCC - They have their mission and goals and are working on objectives. They are looking at distance learning. After their plan has been drafted, it will go out for campus discussion.
• PVCC - They are on the web with their development policies. (http://www.pvc.maricopa.edu/committee/tct/tct_strategic_plan.html) They have created a needs assement instrument for training [copies sent out by campus mail]. They also have a strategic plan for campus wide initiatives and budget requests. They are merging labs. Also are visiting divisions - determined that they need to start a 3 year plan that will be fed into a larger plan.
• SMCC - Ken Roberts said that South Mountain is tied up with their NCA plan and has been unable to concentrate on their plan. Their web page is up however.

• Plan May Ocotillo Retreat (decided location, etc)