On October 21, more than 250 IT professionals gathered, both virtually and in-person, for the 2024 Higher Education NetComm Workshop in San Antonio. The free workshop for higher education networking professionals, now in its second year, was co-organized by Ryan … Read more

Radcliffe started at Carolina supporting Identity Finder and eventually took on the role of manager for the Risk & Compliance team. The team has provided support for risk assessments, the vulnerability management system for the University (Qualys), credit card support … Read more

Improves accessibility Avery will be the first older UNC-Chapel Hill residence hall to gain an elevator in years. It’s also the first University project toward a long-term strategy of vastly improving accessibility in Carolina’s older residence halls, enabling students to … Read more

First major upgrade in years This project was the first major upgrade to TIM in years. UNC-Chapel Hill’s TIM upgrade launched in the spring after two years of work. The project was a collaboration between ITS; Payroll Services, a department … Read more

When we think of University employees, we picture them conducting their day-to-day work in support of the campus community. Some staff members, though, tackle a whole extra layer of work related to their service to Carolina. ITS’ Gina Fogelsonger is … Read more

The CrowdStrike “blue screen of death” event that began on July 19 affected at least 8.5 million computers worldwide and is being called the biggest IT outage in history. Early rough estimates put the cost to organizations and individuals in … Read more

Two ITS managers who reported to Assistant Vice Chancellor Steve Haring until his retirement a few weeks ago have been elevated to executive director positions and will assume part of their former boss’ duties. Now Wanda Boone is Executive Director … Read more

Erin Towne, a Chapel Hill resident with experience in business analysis and process architecture, joined the Information Security Office today as a senior program business analyst for information security. Towne, who is no stranger to ITS, will lead program analysis … Read more

Valuable experience In his 20 years at ITS, Cross has amassed a wealth of technical expertise and skills he brings to the MDS manager position. He started his career at UNC as a student employee, where he learned the basics … Read more

Ethan Kromhout has been named Assistant Vice Chancellor for ITS Infrastructure, Operations & Networking, effective June 3, after serving as interim AVC since June 2022. He “is without peer with respect to technical acumen and ability both to get new … Read more

Whether you’re graduating in a few days or next year, two students who are about to graduate share some prep-your-tech-for-graduation tips that they wish had been on their radar sooner. These members of the Class of 2024 want to grab … Read more

Editor’s note: Lesley Gonzalez wrote about her experience using Copilot with Data Protection before wrapping up her time as an ITS Communications student worker. She graduates on May 11 with bachelor’s from the UNC Hussman School of Journalism and Media.  … Read more