The Hub: Published By, For and About ITS

ITS is in the news with stories on the Carolina Computing Initiative, a campaign against illegal file sharing and efforts to stump our resident geek!

The University Gazette celebrated the 10th anniversary of the Carolina Computing Initiative. A Daily Tar Heel article focused on the ITS campaign to discourage illegal file sharing, while Priscilla Alden, assistant vice chancellor for user support and engagement, tackled a question on saving .wdb files as .txt files in the Raleigh News and Observer’s Stump the Geeks column.

A call for proposals for the 10th Annual UNC Teaching and Learning with Technology Conference is now available The deadline for proposal submissions is Monday, Oct. 6.

The UNC Teaching and Learning with Technology Conference, with a focus on “Teaching Towards Tomorrow,” will explore best practices, new perspectives and innovations that effectively prepare students for tomorrow’s world. The conference will take place March 16 to 18, 2009 at the Sheraton Imperial Hotel and Convention Center in Durham, N.C. Continue Reading

“Welcome to Carolina!” So began the personal phone call that 80 percent of new students received from the ITS Response Center (ITRC) this summer.

About two weeks after freshmen and transfer students took ownership of their Carolina Computing Initiative (CCI) laptops, they received a telephone call offering technical support and a Carolina welcome. Continue Reading

Welcome Charles Yarbrough to Information Security, effective Aug. 11…Zachary Tewell to User Support and Engagement, effective Aug. 11…Jamar Jones to Teaching and Learning, effective Aug. 16… Kristin Hondros to Teaching and Learning, effective Aug. 18 and Susan Ray to Enterprise Resource Planning, effective Aug. 18.

Farewells to Jin Shang and Josh Tewell, both from Enterprise Applications, effective Aug. 8

Diane Strong of Finance and Administration and Scott McCall of Teaching and Learning helped pack a van with 902 pounds of food for delivery to the Durham location of the Food Bank of Central and Eastern North Carolina.

Continue Reading

Shortly after Vice Chancellor and CIO Larry Conrad came to Carolina, he met with a group of campus IT directors who collectively represented a broad cross section of schools and units. In that and subsequent meetings, information about IT activities in campus units and views were exchanged. So valuable were the exchanges, Conrad approached the group to ask if they would serve in an advisory capacity to him as Carolina’s CIO. A new group, the Information Technology Executive Council (ITEC) was formed. Continue Reading