2. Computer & Information Technology Meeting 4/24/2006 http://Business.AState.edu/CIT

3. Agenda Items Congratulations Advising issues Planning issues Information needed Course scheduling: Note summer (handout) & fall (online) sections Indicate corrections ASAP Schedules End-of-semester activities 2006/07 (online) Miscellaneous

4. Congratulations... ! To Paula Ruby, the CoB Service Award recipient To Farhad Moeeni, for his being granted sabbatical leave To Henry Torres, keynote speaker @ Murray State conference on economic development To HIT grantees Russ Jones – training RSI staff in “ethical hacking” and other security issues Kelly Fish – Oracle 10g training materials Farhad Moeeni – AutoID development Qingyu Zhang – WebSphere training To Phonathon participants $1300 pledge goal exceeded by $278 Faculty participating: Henry, Steve, Mei Thanks much also to Paula for recruiting AITP  Six members participated  John Hines won top pledges for the night To the entire department: great work on Preview Day; thanks!

5. Advising Issues NSO Dates  April 20 (session full; 0 CIT/BTech majors)  Tuesday, May 23 (session full)  Tuesday, June 6 (session full)  Tuesday, June 13 (session full), and Thursday, June 15  Tuesday, June 20, and Thursday, June 22  Tuesday, June 27  Tuesday, July 11 and 25  Tuesday, August 1, and Friday, August 18 Advise into BUSN 1913 + GenEd, CIT 1503 Pay attention to course offering rotations (see our website) Generally each course is taught only once per year Plan ahead to ensure student will graduate at a reasonable time 4-year suggested sequencing (required by State law) Explain “penalty” for getting off-track Other... ?

6. Planning (A) Review of our strategic planning accomplishments Vision Mission What would we do if we had another $10,000?  Lump sum  Annually Other... ? Meet in May? TAB meeting: June/July? Teleconferenced?

7. Planning (B) Information Technology Expo 2007 Monthly seminars: teaching, research,... ? Faculty expected to attend Grad students required? Project + exam Sponsor top student this year Next year:  All CIT 4853 students?  CompTIA fee alternatives $218 per exam $890 annual membership + $112 per exam What are our goals? Research Positioning Recruitment Other... ?

8. Info Needed Summer office hours (if applicable) Syllabi for summer courses Goal statements If not already submitted Be specific Updated CVs (if not already submitted since December)

9. Miscellaneous Announcements Grading deadline: Thursday (May 4) @ noon All grades, including graduating seniors Grad list: where are they going? Ritter Scholarship

10. Spring Dates of Interest Graduation: May 6 @ 10 am Summer classes begin: May 31 Others... ?