Scotia Roopnarine has joined ITS Infrastructure & Operations as the Director of Applications. He will oversee PeopleSoft Administration, Business Process Automation, Middleware Services, Linux Administration and Database Administration teams – about 32 people. Roopnarine comes from Ellucian, a higher ed … Read more

ITS has published its sixth consecutive annual report. The 2018-2019 Annual Report highlights a collection of the department’s accomplishments. The report provides at least a glimpse into the breadth and depth of ITS’s relationship to the activities, initiatives and services … Read more

More than 200 campus technologists came together for the November 5, 2019 CTC Retreat and IT Awards to explore new technology and recognize excellence in IT at UNC-Chapel Hill. Carolina Technology Consultants’ annual conference at the Carolina Union drew an … Read more

Three teams and seven individuals received IT Awards on November 5 for their outstanding work over the past year serving UNC-Chapel Hill. The 2019 IT Awards Committee selected the honorees from among one of the largest groups of nominees in … Read more

More than 200 people attended the Information Security Office’s day-long SecurityCon event on October 9 at the Carolina Union. This was the second annual SecurityCon, a day-long event for students, faculty and staff interested in learning more about information security. … Read more

At its meeting next month, the Information Security Liaison (ISL) program’s advisory board will mark eight months since its initial kick-off meeting. After that kick-off meeting in March, advisory board members met in June to conduct the first official meeting. … Read more

At a 1 1/2-day workshop organized by ITS Research Computing and Adobe, experts encouraged young researchers to magnify the reach and impact of their research by applying visual media to communicate their work. Three dozen Carolina graduate students and post-docs, … Read more

ITS Enterprise Application’s Mechelle Clayton has been named Interim Assistant Vice Chancellor of the ITS division. Clayton, whose permanent role is director of non-PeopleSoft applications in support of Finance and Operations, the Friday Center and ITS, took the helm of … Read more

Leader. Partner. Learner. When her campus partners, peers and staff talk about Fran Dykstra, those three words are spoken time and again. In fact, you’d be hard pressed to have a conversation about Fran and not hear those words come … Read more

ITS Enterprise Reporting & Departmental Systems was moved from ITS Enterprise Applications in April and is now its own distinct operating unit. Enterprise Reporting & Departmental Systems now reports directly to the Office of the CIO. The team has 16 … Read more

A month following the launch of ServiceNow, campus members are acclimating to and finding value in the University’s new primary ticketing software. That’s what user feedback and usage stats indicate for ServiceNow, which replaced Carolina’s old Remedy system on July … Read more

ITS has contributed to UNC-Chapel Hill’s Operational Excellence initiative that seeks to create a high-functioning administrative operation. Operational Excellence, which aims to identify efficiencies, cost avoidance and potential revenue sources to help fund the University’s strategic investments, began in fall … Read more