Proposal

Narrative

The College for Design & Social Inquiry Advising Center is requesting funding for ten Surface Pro tablets, one digital display unit, and two laptops, to assist current students, newly admitted transfer students, and potential students in their transition to FAU. The surface tablets will allow advising staff to better assist students at open houses, campus days, and during college orientation sessions. We will also be implementing an “Advising in the Rotunda” option due to the high amount of traffic the area outside of our building receives. We will also use these tablets during advising appointments to allow students to register for recommended courses in real-time, while also allowing students to navigate to university webpages and documents being discussed during appointments. These include academic calendars, Degree Audit Reports, course schedules, registration schedules, petitions, and contact information for various offices. Additionally, we will be using the Surface Pro tablets during transfer workshops where we present information about our college to prospective students at Palm Beach State College and Broward College. Using the Office of Admissions new on-the-spot admission procedure as a model, we will be implementing pre-orientation on-the-spot advising during these transfer workshops as well. This will allow us to contribute to the FAU Strategic Plan goal of enhancing the “brand” by making student transitions to our college seamless and interactive. Our office will utilize the two laptops to implement a kiosk that students can use to continue searching and registering for courses before or after the allotted time they have with our advisors. This will also allow students to complete in-house surveys being developed to gather more data on student satisfaction and success within our college. The digital display will be used in our waiting room to highlight important information and announcements for our students. Deadlines, events, and the registration schedule will be displayed on a rotating basis. We will also have flexibility to display more critical information like course cancellations, program changes, and instructions. Together, these three different technologies will contribute to the strategic plan of “boldness,” via increasing academic support structures for current, prospective, and new students so they are more likely to reach timely graduation. *Please note: Due to only departmental chairs being listed as options in the submission process, this proposal is being submitted under the Criminal Justice Chair, Dr. John Smykla, with his permission. However, the proposal is a CDSI Advising proposal, which is housed under the CDSI Dean's Office, lead by Dr. Wesley Hawkins. If approved, this grant will be entirely administered through the CDSI Advising Office in conjunction with the Dean's Office.

Facilities

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Hardware Requirements

-10 Microsoft Surface Pro 12.3" i5, 8GB RAM, 256GB SSD (Total = $11,600.60) -10 Microsoft Surface Pro Type Cover keyboard (Total = $1,068.50) -10 Microsoft Surface Pen stylus (Total = $821.50) -2 Dell Latitude 3480 Laptop 14" i3, 4GB RAM, 500 HDD (Total = $958.06) -2 Dell Professional Briefcase 14" (Total = $86.12) -1 Dell Optical Mouse (Total = $15.00) -1 LG 49" Display w/tilt-wall mount, Google Chromecast & installation costs (Total = $1137.19) -1 Chief Large Fusion Title Wall Mounting Kit (Total = $167.81) -1 Ergotron Neo-Flex Laptop Cart (Total = $622.62) Total = $16,477.40

Software Requirements

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Personnel Costs

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Other Costs

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Timeline

Our goal is to begin utilizing the equipment before summer, 2018.

Sustainability

We will maintain and update the equipment per the guidance of our college technology coordinator.

Resource Matching

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Implementing Organization

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