The Student Technology Fee Oversight Committee decided on evaluation criteria for ranking the upcoming discipline-specific equipment proposals at its Tuesday meeting.
The STF Committee has $1 million to appropriate toward specific proposals made by faculty members for their respective colleges, The Daily Reveille previously reported. These proposals will be submitted on a Community Moodle page Nov. 1, and reviewed and ranked by the STF Committee’s 10 voting members.
There are eight criteria determining the number of points each voting member can give. With 100 possible points for each of the 10 voting members, the total scores of each proposal will be out of 1000 points.
“We had four or five years where we didn’t have any of the $1 million because of the budget cuts,” Vice Provost for Human Resources and Facilities Management Jane Cassidy said.
“Last year was its first year back, and we kept the criteria the same.”
Proposals range from computer labs to new equipment for various departments.
In one part of the criteria, the dean of the college the proposal comes from is required to rank all of the proposals coming from his or her college. Those rankings will then be sent to committee voting members to help determine how they will eventually award points.
Cassidy said the committee will take the number of proposals from each college into account when approving proposals during their next meeting.
“Let’s say that six proposals from [the Department of] Humanities and Social Sciences were the top six, and they added up to $1 million,” Cassidy said. “Would we award the full amount to that one department? Probably not, but we would fund the top two or three.”
Throughout the next meeting progresses, the approved
proposals’ costs will be deducted from the $1 million total, to keep tabs on how much money the committee has left to give, said John Duplantis, STF Committee member and Administrative Analyst for the Office of Budget and Planning.
Last year, the committee funded the top nine proposals — all of which had a total of more than 900 points. Cassidy said the committee will not partially fund any proposal, and there is a slight amount of wiggle room in the $1 million budget in case approved proposals total more than the intended amount.
“We went maybe $15,000 or so over last year but nothing too high — like $200,000 over,” Duplantis said.
Student Technology Oversight Committee members met on Tuesday, Oct. 13, 2015, to discuss upcoming financial proposal requirements for the LSU community.
