In support of its mission, Carroll Community College will fully incorporate and maintain the advantages of computer-based and communications technology to enable the college to function as a model learning institution in the 21st century. The college will continuously improve technology resources to support its students, faculty, and staff in their activities, including services from on campus as well as from any location and at any time.

The college’s Technology Advisory Group (TAG), chaired by Alan Bogage, has developed the following specific objectives to guide technology planning at the college.

Instruction and Learning

• Provide access to a vigorous technology-based learning environment, with college computer labs systematically upgraded on a regular basis.
• Accommodate the educational needs of the community, by implementing a variety of methodologies and evolving technologies including distance and asynchronous learning.
• Maintain the Learning Resources Center as a technological focal point for the informational and research needs of the college community.
• Facilitate the use of technology in the classroom, with all classrooms having access to high-end computer and projection systems.
• Provide strong technical training in computer software applications and hardware systems as a major component of the college’s curriculum.

Student Support Services

• Automate, where appropriate, student service functions including such operations as web-based registration, telephone registration, online advisement, and degree and grade auditing so as to provide for wider and faster access.

Planning, Marketing, and Assessment

• Develop a robust data reporting system that will allow for regular data collection, manipulation, and dissemination in support of enrollment management, student learning outcomes assessment, fiscal management, data storage/warehousing, and state and federal reporting mandates.
• Exploit computer and Internet based resources in the promotion and marketing of the college.
• Employ regional, peer, statewide, and national benchmarks and “best practices” in the application and planning of technology college-wide.

Systems and Infrastructure

• Maintain and regularly upgrade the campus network infrastructure and office desktop hardware and software so that it can effectively handle administrative and instructional demands.
• Maintain server technology to meet or exceed on-site and remote demands.
• Identify and implement appropriate software applications to automate administrative and institutional research functions such as budgeting, position control, report writing, data collection and analysis, and scheduling.
• Secure and maintain the integrity of the campus network and computer-based resources.

Staff and Faculty Support

• Employ sufficient technical, developmental, and support personnel necessary to support all hardware and software used by instructional and administrative systems.
• Provide formal and informal training opportunities on an ongoing basis to full- and part-time staff and faculty.
• Provide help-desk and technical support through human and networked resources.

The Technology Advisory Group reports to the Planning Advisory Council and is responsible for recommending college-wide funding priorities for technology. Current TAG members are Michelle Appel, Jim Ball, Alan Bogage (chair), Craig Clagett, Pete Comings, Dick Crook, Patti Davis, Rick Gould, Bob Koermer, Kathy Menasche, Karen Merkle, John Polley, Nancy Schoppert, and Alan Schuman.

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