QUESTION:
What are the needs for providing equitable technology access to students, faculty, and our communities? How can they be financially achieved?

e.g. dial-in access, standardized networked software ("palettes"), accounts for students, specialized labs, uniform technology access fees

IDEAS:

1. Resources for students who can't provide their own
2. Inequity between colleges and within colleges
3. Should some funding be generated by means of fees or other methods?
4. Balance between community use of resources and student use
5. Students of all backgrounds need access at college and at home; all over campus access (library, registration, offices, classrooms, labs ...)
6. Full-time and part-time faculty need access to office, classroom, and home computing; training as well as hardware and software
7. Investigate more financing options such as industry partnerships, block purchases, fees, ...
8. Partnering with other colleges and public libraries for cross-access
9. Dial-up service and access from home or work (students and part-time faculty)
10. Partnerships to share resources: equipment, role models, trade services (courses for personnel), co-enrollment
11. Transport (park n' ride) students to programs within Maricopa equates to district FTSE not college FTSE
12. Need technical support
13. Students need proximity to technology
14. $$$$$$$$$
15. Technology labs and locations other than campuses, i.e., churches, libraries, rec centers (boys and girls clubs), YMCAs, where the people go
16. Computer loan program (use with library card)
17. Scholarships for computers
18. Computers located on campus in other than lab settings; place where students congregate socially
19. Sufficient lab hours with lab support
20. Updated programs, mainstream programs, keeping current software available
21. Making sure students have access to technology...at home or on campus
22. Look at different models, i.e., Sun Microsystems leasing, loaning to students; lease purchase options for students
23. Use of smart cards; allow students access to specific computers directly related to course needs
24. Lab time--space available for students and community
25. Faculty use at home may require laptops; may require more technology support
26. Provide e-mail and web space for students and community for modest fee
27. Define what is needed by each group
28. Creation of open computer labs and specialized labs
29. Partnerships with private Internet service providers
30. Rental, loan, or lease technology hardware to maximize use of equipment
31. Technology fee or bond to fund
32. Faculty/students have modem access to all available on campus and/or 24-hour access
33. Classroom availability for full and partial users of the technology
34. Projection availability/making of presentations transparencies for students
35. Registration, course schedules, bookstore info, grades available to students on-line
36. Orientations for community members wanting to use technology--limited access
37. Obligation to provide access to technology for the students, staff, and community
38. Cyclical process to upgrade and replace technology on campus
39. Across the board technology fee to support student use of technology
40. Assess needs of assorted users; establish priority in relationship to needs; determine fiscal capability to respond to priorities; fit between capabilities needs/capabilities ($)
41. Needs are dynamic therefore ongoing analysis has to be done
42. Financial=creative connections; communities across areas; avoid duplication of resource usage
43. Financial=technologies in bulk
44. Define the needs of each group and establish levels of access and automate as much as possible (equity based on academic need)
45. Selling proprietary netware to outside entities; lab/user fees; added user fees for specialized equipment/needs; recycle old equipment to sell, i.e., fish bowls out of the Mac SEs); lease options
46. Labs/share access, equipment; set equipment up that is discipline-specific; provides user areas (as opposed to commons)
47. Faculty get what they want when they want it
48. Should other forms of technology be made available to these groups? We naturally gravitate to computers, but maybe it should be beepers/cell-phone
49. Universal access
50. Needs impact on campus infrastructure, technology support, wear and tear on equipment, license agreements, general supplies, 24-hour help desk support, etc.
51. Creative manipulation of existing budgets, partnerships, industry support
52. Remote access to classes/library on campus
53. Support human and machine
54. US West remote for ISP
55. Mail for students
56. Internet access with no waiting lines
57. 7/24 access
58. Rent to students
59. Tie staffing to capital technology purchases
60. Corporate sponsorships--free support and services
61. Access technology from home for both students/faculty for application purposes; loaners--hardware
62. 24-hour access and support for: instruction, technical assistance
63. Training (ongoing) for faculty take into account teaching schedules and incentives
64. Full access 24/7/365 with full support
65. Corporate partnerships
66. Creative fund raising (credit cards, grocery cards, banner ads on web sites)
67. Provide e-mail accounts, open lab environments
68. Alliances with libraries, schools
69. Alliances with vendors, business and industries for training labs, donations, internships
70. Lend/lease equipment to students
71. Bond funds for leasing
72. Provide a laptop computer for each full-time student
73. Develop partnerships with local business and institutions to support student learning
74. Provide faculty with appropriate computer resources tool
75. Provide dial-up access to part-time faculty and students
76. Provide authenticated access to on-line resources i.e., ISP, public library, public schools, and other community organizations
77. Access is more than using a computer or lab or dialing in; it is based on socio-economic situation and impacts student's preparation and academic readiness for higher education
78. Transportation is often a key, could we work with HUD non-profits and others partnering to develop distributed access to desktop computers
79. Should we be delivering services (like a van-full of laptops, like a "book-mobile" approach?)
80. Age restrictions and generation impact access
81. Do we need different dollars allocated to, and different strategies developed on each campus?
82. Survey the access to technology of all our students and staff; find out how we can connect them to our services
83. To find a way to match the capability of the hardware/software to realistic need of the users
84. Continued bond support
85. District-wide equitable technology fee
86. Partnering with the public sector review scheduling processes to maximize use of computer lab/classrooms
87. Access to technology; distance learning; universal access to community college computer labs (Internet, Microsoft Office Suite, graphics package)
88. Financial; user fees; cooperative business partnerships
89. Better negotiating power; share technology, resources, and ideas among campuses
90. Commercially (joint funded) sponsored mobile classroom with appropriate technology, i.e., video based, Internet
91. Integrated into all curriculum; spread application of technology to nontraditional curriculum; open labs (non-restricted)
92. Joint sponsored equipment pool for student check-out for home use
93. Partnerships--creative bartering; exchange resources to achieve win/win (i.e., space, faculty, equipment, tech consultants with community city libraries, K-12 sites, ...)
94. Providing access to student based on needs, etc.; refurbished computers/rentals; web TV; scholarship to provide web TV; making deals with computers; trade/recycle program
95. Open labs
96. Priority access: faculty/staff/admin; students; community
97. Fees for access/per crs. or per semester; scholarship money for access; capital funded
98. Subsidize acquisition; provide lease programs; access to lab resources
99. Integrate technology into all curriculum