Current Program

Management Information Systems (MIS) designs, maintains and upgrades the college's campus-wide computer and network systems. The department, which is one of the largest in the district, supports e-mail servers, web serves, file servers, print servers, switches, routers and cables. It installs and maintains network software including system upgrades, helps train faculty and staff, maintains all software license usage, evaluates hardware and software technologies, and develops, implements and enforces security for the network. In recent
years, as personal computers have become affordable, the number of PCs on campus has increased and the quantity and variety of software have increased. Also, as technology has become more recognized as a teaching tool, computers have moved into more classroom instruction areas than ever before. These factors, along with the introduction of new class scheduling, budget, student identification and parking programs, have placed increasing demands on the MIS department, which in response has hired additional staff and even outsourced some information technology services.

Personnel - At this time the department employs six full-time classified staff members, a short-term classified employee and two student workers.

Equipment - Tool kits, a network diagnostic kit, a cable repair kit, a door lock, and two servers need to be replaced. A layer 3 switch need to be upgraded.

Facilities - The department's operating spaces were recently remodeled and are adequate for operations. Storage space is badly needed.

Future Program

With recent growth in the use of technology, and in anticipation of continued growth, the number of personnel needed to maintain the college's computer systems will increase both in the mid term (five years) and in the long term (ten years) at a rate faster than overall college enrollment.

Personnel - See Projected Faculty and Staff Needs.

Equipment - Several servers, routers and switches will need to be replaced within five years, and ten new servers and a new computer network security system are needed during the same period to prevent unauthorized system access. Within ten years ten computers will need to be replaced.

Facilities - Additional space for storage is needed now and the problem will only worsen as time goes by. As staff members are added, additional office space will be needed.

Staff Development - Ever-changing technologies require ever-changing technical education. Suggested areas of instruction include Windows Operating System, S.A.P., Novell Nerware, Microsoft Office and Exchange E-mail systems.