QUESTION: PhysicalA3

Instructional technology is excellent compared to other schools. At the centers, we have fabulous multimedia teaching platforms - with Elmo, DVD, VCR, PC, etc. in every classroom.  Our equipment works well (the computers in the Lynnwood library seem to run slower than our computers in Des Moines), and the technology is good.

Given the aging professoriate and the presence of softer-speaking international students, the distance education classrooms are increasingly inadequate in the area of sound quality and volume. This has been brought to the attention of the appropriate parties and nothing has been done to make it easier for us to hear students asking questions. In other words, CWU is probably violating some federal law by not attending to
educator needs in the classroom.

Center libraries are small.

ITS services two general use Computer labs:   PC lab – 4th floor and Mac–2nd floor

Technology is acquired mainly through grants and contracts or faculty development funds, as possible.  
     
Faculty computers are planned for through department funds set aside annually, such that we should be able to upgrade computers on a five year cycle.  These funds are sometimes supplemented through ITS or COTS funds.  The WIN-WIN fund matching to replace outdated computers through ITS has helped replace outdated department computers. Presently, each faculty member has a separate “virtual” account in the department budget planning so that upgrades can occur in sequence according to when the last upgrade was acquired.  These funds are accumulated through contract indirect, which is currently being re-organized at the level of the Office of Graduate Studies and Research.   Such funds may soon be either substantially reduced or become unavailable at the department level.

Software:  PastPerfect – current license for 5 users
     GIS – access through REM program
     Observation – PBE and other users
     Endnote
     Ethnograph
     Final Cut – Visual Anth teaching and research
     Adobe PhotoShop

Faculty: All faculty, adjunct, and graduate assistant offices are equipped with PC or Apple operating systems with printers and Ethernet connections.  Randall Hall is soon to go wireless.

Instructional: A Macintosh computer lab, featuring 20 Macintosh G5 work stations, scanners, and advanced printing capabilities is located in the Randall Hall computer lab. The computers are outfitted with a variety   of graphics software and the lab is fully networked with high-speed internet access to the world-wide-web.  A budget is needed that is dedicated exclusively to the purchasing of software updates to assist efforts in Photography, Graphic Design, and Computer Art to maintain its programmatic competitive edge.  

Specialized Equipment & Supplies:

     ·	Soldering: Four fully equipped soldering stations with slot hoods, Smith-torches and accessories, pickle-pot. 

     ·	Casting: Burn-out kiln with fully-automated kiln-controller, vacuum-debubbilizer and casting unit, centrifugal casting machine, vulcanizer, wax-injector, waxes, wax tools, assorted specialized tools. 

     ·	Enameling: Three enameling kilns and two single-point electronic kiln controllers, full line of Thompson lead-free enamels, kiln trivets and grates, specialized enamel tools and supplies- including limoges, cloisonné and plique-a-jour supplies and tools, oils, binders, oxides, and foils. 

     ·	Etching: Capability to do nitric acid, ferric chloride and ferric nitrate etching, bubbilizer tank for ferric chloride etching, resists, mordants. 
     
     ·	Ventilated hot-patina station. 
     
     ·	Electroplating: Electroplating rectifier with solutions, electrodes and equipment for silver and gold electroplating. 

     ·	Polishing: Two two-station filtered buffing machines with wheels and buffing compounds. 

     ·	Drawing: Full-size drawbench and drawtools. 

     ·	Foredam Tools: Two flexible-shaft Foredam tools and accessories for student use. Additional unit for faculty demonstrations. 

     ·	Rolling: Two good-quality rolling mills; one with wire-roller, the other with an extra-wide (100 mm) flat-roll. 

     ·	Chasing: Chasing bowls (8), pitch and chasing tools. 

     ·	Bead-blaster: Large high-pressure bead-blaster. 

Painting and Drawing:  Undergraduate instruction is distributed between four studios:

     ·	Oil painting is taught in two large studios, each with over 2,000 square feet of floor space. Both studios have raised ceilings, vaulted skylights, and large, north-facing windows. Due, in part, to a $5,000,000 health and safety upgrade, the studios have a wonderful ventilation system which monitors airflow. The studios are equipped with enough easel-and-workbench painting stations for students at all levels to have a dedicated workspace of their own. 

     ·	Watercolor is taught in a 1,500 square foot studio. The studio has raised ceilings and vaulted sky lights, and contains enough workbenches for watercolor students at all levels to have a dedicated workspace of their own. 

     ·	Drawing is taught in a 1,800 square foot studio with raised ceilings and vaulted skylights. The studio houses over twenty drafting tables and numerous portable drawing chairs. 

     ·	Graduate instruction occurs in various graduate painting studios. We offer graduate students personal studio space in modest 400-500 square foot studios or access to a larger 1,800 square foot studio shared by three or four grad students. 

     ·	400 square foot storage facility for temporary storage of completed work. 

     ·	Prop room, equipped with still life objects, life drawing materials, and portable lights. 

     ·	Slide documentation equipment, including digital and 35 mm cameras, portable light kits.

     ·	Digital imaging lab (shared with Photography) with a Macintosh workstation, a professional-grade scanner, and a large-format Epson printer. 

     ·	Access to computer lab with 20 dual-processor Macintosh G5 computers, and print with various digital applications

Currently classes are taught in classrooms that have adequate AV and digital projection devices.  FTDs are not available for research and are obsolete (see previous).

One faculty member has had to suspend funded research due to lack of proper equipment.

Department faculty incorporate the modern instrucitonal technology available in Science Building classrooms into their curricula and research programs.  All modern instrumentation is driven by computer software.  Over the last five years the department has worked with university computer and engineering technicians to setup and maintain the instrumentation.  Student access to instrumentation data is facilitated through storage on university servers.  

The classrooms currently available to Communication Department faculty need technology upgrades in Bouillion Hall.  Most faculty rely heavily on access to Black Hall in order to integrate technology into the curriculum effectively.

January, 2008
Given the computer science discipline, the answer here is the same as that to (A.2) above.

Additional computer technology will be neede for faculty to provide students with essential technical skills.

Instructional technology is in excellent shape for our department.

Some areas of research technology could be updated. What we have available in items such as portable computers, video cameras, recorders, etc. are functional, but are not compatible with newer tech devices.

All classrooms in the Language and Literature building are now equipped with instructional technology, and we are able to find classrooms with instructional technology whenever faculty request it.

1. Classroom technology – all but two of program classrooms have “smart classroom” instructional delivery systems.  The last two classrooms are scheduled to get “smart classroom” systems this year.  All classrooms have internet access.

2. Faculty offices – all tenure track faculty have new or upgraded computers and printers.

3. Michaelsen Hall is wireless.

Technology includes internet sources of information, computer applications all areas of Operations and Financial Management.  Interactive educational software.  Class management software, e.g. Blackboard.

Technology available to the department is limited to the standard equipment and facilities provided through the computers, phones, and network capabilities that are generally made available across the university.  Specialized technology, such as GIS equipment and software, have been maintained by the department as best we can afford.  Faculty members have in some cases successfully sought external funds to help alleviate the burden of these costs.

The GIS (Geographic Information Systems) room holds a 21-seat computer lab, with an adjacent smaller laboratory housing an additional 7 work stations, with several peripheral scanners and digitizers.  In addition, the Geography department is also affiliated with, and houses, the Center for Spatial Information (CSI), which was established in 1999 to coordinate and enhance the application of existing and emerging technologies used to create, manage and analyze spatial information.   One of the primary goals of CSI is to evaluate emerging geospatial technologies, and to develop methods to use geospatial data to solve real problems on the ground.

Most of the classrooms now have a computer coupled to digital projector; the last room in Lind is being fitted and should be on-line by June 2008.  We appreciate the commitment made by the groups on campus that have helped us improve our instructional technology. We need to improve or replace some of the teaching technology, such as the teaching microscope-digital camera-monitor set up we have (which is at least 10 years old). This set up is used to aid students in classes where the petrographic microscope is used. More modern technology (e.g., better projection quality) would enhance our use of particular teaching tools (e.g., computer simulations of tsunamis, earthquakes).

Instructional technology is adequate.
Research technology is non existent.

Instructional technology is adequate in Shaw/Smyser. ITS has supported our department when we have requested updates to software.

While all Centers have distance education possibilities, they need to be upgraded for delivery of more courses to multiple sites. The Ellensburg program needs more computers to establish a computer lab in their new location.

Every tenure stream faculty member receives a new computer when they are hired. For the last five years, we have been trying to replace these computers every three years using summer revenues.  The three-year old computers are used in full time non-tenure-stream and adjunct offices.  Thus, most all faculty have relatively new computers. Between summer revenues and faculty development funds, most individual software requests are fulfilled. There is one multimedia station available for student use in the library/lounge.  Students can use this machine to work on homework or prepare their electronic portfolios. There are three classrooms in Bouillon which have “smart” consoles.  However, that does not mean they are equipped with the specialized software needed in many mathematics courses. The computer lab does contain specialized software, but is shared with the Communications department which can make scheduling difficult.

The "Smart Room" with multi-media has significantly improved instructional access to technology.

Physics faculty incorporate instructional technology available in Lind Hall classrooms into their curricular programs.  Most modern instrumentation, particularly those found in the faculty research labs, are interfaced with computers and at times driven by computer software.  As mentioned previously, the ability for the Department to support maintenance fees for the software has been difficult.  

The Physics Department has worked with university computer and engineering technicians to setup and maintain some of the UNIX-based computer systems.  

The technology – namely smart classrooms with computers, Internet and intranet access, video projectors, and the like – are generally fine. However, they often vary as to their newness or uniformity in operation.  As one faculty member put it, The process to use the technology varies across rooms on campus and in the building.  In some rooms, one jumps through hoop A, B, and C and then in another room, the process is different.  It deters people from using the technology we’ve paid for.  Another noted that all computers should have zip, CD, and disk drives.  Again, there is limited availability for these classrooms, depending upon class size.

	-One of the biggest limits to the use of technology is in fact training and skill in using it; several of newer faculty are already familiar, and some of the longer-serving have used it as well, but finding time and ability to take courses or seminars to learn how to use new technologies (and thus assessing whether they are applicable) is difficult. This is one area where the University needs to invest more time, effort and resources into faculty development, and likewise give faculty reassigned time to pursue these activities.

(January 2008)
Comments on the adequacy of instructional and research technology may be found in Standard 7.A. Our centers programs are in new buildings located on community college campuses. They have been build recently and were planned to accommodate modern teaching technology. The demand for extensive research technology at the centers has not been great; however, development of the psychology major at the centers may require some new research technology. 

The department has requested a survey/teaching lab for many years. Without it faculty's ability to conduct research and mentor students' research is severely limited.  

Several courses in the department utilize Blackboard technologies. Other have developed websites which support material deliver and enhancement.  Faculty and staff have included training at bi-monthly meetings to help integrate technology into materials deliver.

The installation of a media center in our only traditional classroom has increased the integration of technologies through the department.

Sound and lighting equipment is completely computer driven for both classroom and production laboratory. Technical areas rely heavily on CAD programs for drafting.