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TMAPP College Telecommunications Plans Mini-Grants Napa Valley College
Napa Valley College is aggressively engaging technology to enhance instructional delivery systems, as well as administrative and student services. Several developments both on and off campus dictate that the college needs to coordinate activities related to technology to give our campus community direction and information. Some developments on campus include building a backbone for our own infrastructure, an automated library services network, development of an electronic classroom, the addition of distance education in our curriculum, and a general move toward electronic communication among faculty and staff. At the same time, the college is moving ahead to connect with 4CNet, the community college telecommunications infrastructure. The college also has an application with the Federal Communications Commission for the acquisition of 4 ITFS channels. This project will give the college the opportunity to do an internal needs assessment and develop a plan in coordination with the Chancellor's Office Telecommunications Plan and the Chancellor's Office document titled "Baseline for Planning and Implementing an Internal-Campus Telecommunications Infrastructure Systems for the California Community Colleges." This process and plan will become a model for other community colleges throughout the state. The college proposes to accomplish this goal at the local level by identifying a consulting firm that can assist the project team with an internal needs assessment leading to a comprehensive strategic technology plan. Elements of this plan will include: description of the current situation, an ideal plan, the finance and architecture, final preparation, implementation, recurring activities and evaluation. On a state wide level, the college proposes to accomplish this goal by communicating with other community college districts that receive planning grants to learn from and share information with them. After the plan is complete the college will make it available both in hard copy and electronically. |
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