Status of Recommendations derived from the Yahoo

Status of Recommendations derived from the Yahoo! Wired Survey Results

Report to the Technology Committee, February, 2001

Recommendations made by C. Smullen, M. Wilson, May 11, 2000

1. Every student at UTC should be given an email address. A server should be established for students to search for an email address, similar to that in use for faculty and staff.

Analysis: Universal student email addresses are not implemented; estimated date summer, 2001. There are no current plans for a student ph server similar to the faculty/staff server.

2. Every member of the UTC Alumni organization should be offered a UTC email address. Such an address should remain in effect as long as the individual remains a member in good standing of the Alumni organization as indicated by, for example, yearly contributions.

Analysis: Not implemented. UTC Alumni may obtain a free email account through a commercial portal company, http://www.zchattanooga.com/ but this is not a UTC address.

3. Students should be allowed to create personal web pages on Moccasun, and these should be retrievable over the Internet.

Analysis: Not implemented. This requires only policy approval; there are no technical issues and very little computing staff time is required to implement this. This will impact the TRC and HelpDesk.

4. It should be the policy of the University that any information produced by the University should be available over the Internet. This is especially true of information made available to the students (e.g. admission materials, application, Undergraduate Catalog, Graduate Catalog, Student Handbook, STARS) and publicity information.

Analysis: No such policy exists. Materials are available due to the work of individuals and departments, rather than an organized University-wide effort. Formats of documents and pages vary; not all are available in HTML.

Admission materials and applications:

http://express.utc.edu/prd/forms/apply_undergraduate.html (both pdf and online versions)

http://www.utc.edu/gradstudies/GraduateForms.htm (pdf only)

Catalogs: http://www.utc.edu/catalogs/ (pdf only)

Student Handbook: not available

Faculty Handbook: faculty development materials available; entire Handbook not

STARS: http://cecasun.utc.edu/cgi-bin/cgiwrap/webstats/classfind

Registration: http://www.utc.edu/online_reg/on_reg1.html

Academic calendar: http://athena.utc.edu/cgi-bin/we3.4/webevent.cgi?cmd=opencal&cal=cal2&

News releases: http://www.utc.edu/unirelations/newsreleases/

5. Since it is the de facto policy, free student printing should be institutionalized, with proper support and management.

Analysis: Note that "free" does not mean "unlimited". No funds have been allocated to support printing in departmental labs.