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EDUCAUSE Live! July 1, 2008 1:00 p.m. ET (12:00 p.m. CT, 11:00 a.m. MT, 10:00 a.m. PT); runs one hour Meeting Communications Needs in Campus DormsSpecial Guests
Dewitt Latimer is deputy CIO and chief technology officer at the University of Notre Dame. In this capacity, he has operational oversight of the IT infrastructure and serves as the university’s chief IT strategist. Latimer has been a leader in higher education's national networking efforts and has played a key role in shaping its position on national IT policy issues. He currently serves on numerous national and EDUCAUSE committees and has served as a member of the SAC Board of Directors and as its program chair, as an ECAR Fellow, and as cochair of the EDUCAUSE Net@EDU Wireless Working Group. In a professional career that spans two decades, Latimer was executive director of statewide IT Infrastructure for the University of Tennessee, director of academic computing and technology at Kent State University, and director of information technology at Clemson University College of Engineering and Sciences. He received a BS and an MS in mechanical engineering from Clemson University and a PhD in education (with a concentration in higher education administration) from the University of Tennessee.
Walt Magnussen is the director for telecommunications at Texas A&M University, associate director of the Academy for Advanced Telecommunications and Learning Technology, an adjunct faculty member at Texas A&M and the University of Texas, and the codirector for the Texas A&M VoIP Internet2 Technology Evaluation Center (ITEC). He is the cochair of Internet2's VoIP Special Interest Group and IPTV SIG, president of the Association for Information Communications Technology Professionals in Higher Education (ACUTA), a member of the State of Texas Telecommunications Planning Oversight Council (TPOC), and a board member of the SIPfoundry, an open source Session Initiation Protocol organization. Magnussen has assisted with engineering the Trans-Texas Video Network, one of the largest distance education networks in the world, and the Lone Star Education and Research Network (LEARN), a Texas regional optical network. He has served as a consultant to distance education projects in over 30 countries. Most recently he assumed a partnership role on the U.S. Department of Transportation grant to demonstrate a next-generation 911 VoIP-based emergency call center. Magnussen has his bachelor's and master's degrees from the University of Minnesota and his doctorate from Texas A&M. SummaryYour host, Steve Worona, will be joined by Dewitt Latimer and Walt Magnussen, and the topic will be "Meeting Communications Needs in Campus Dorms." For the past decade, campuses in the United States have been offering comprehensive communications services in campus dorms that include high speed Internet, cable television, and telephone services (local line, long distance, and voice mail in some cases). With students migrating to other forms of personal communications such as cell phones and text messaging, campuses are reevaluating the need for telephone lines in the dorms. This panel will discuss the implementations at both Notre Dame and Texas A&M University. Included in the discussion will be student opinion polls, wireless alternatives, and E911 and other safety considerations. Related EDUCAUSE Resources
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