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Graduating student workers leave their mark on ITS

May 5, 2020

Editor’s note: ITS Communications student workers reported and wrote this article. As the Spring semester wraps up today, we want to introduce you to and recognize three graduating student workers who have left their mark on ITS. Anthony Doban was … Read more

Tech resources help students adapt to remote learning

May 4, 2020

Editor’s note: ITS Communications student workers reported and wrote this article. The coronavirus pandemic caused many drastic changes for students at UNC-Chapel Hill, interrupting the Spring semester. Professors continue to demonstrate increased lenience in assignment deadlines and grading to accommodate … Read more

Employee Forum elects an ITS manager

April 24, 2020

Theresa Silsby, Director of the ITS Business Systems Help Desk, has been elected to serve as a delegate to the Employee Forum. Silsby will be sworn in — via Zoom — on May 6 as she begins serving her two-year … Read more

Shifting to remote: one Carolina family’s experience

April 13, 2020

All from the same household, ITS’ Brenda Carpen and her family are experiencing the University’s remote work, teaching and learning during the COVID-19 pandemic. Brenda is Project Manager with ITS Infrastructure & Operations. Her husband, Morgan Pitelka, is Chair of … Read more

ITS student employees provide valuable contribution

April 13, 2020

Meet three of ITS’ many valuable student employees: Rosie Tran, Hunter Jamison and Hasan Asadi. Rosie Tran has been a worker at ResNET for the past three years, serving both as a Residential Computing Consultant (RCC) and as a member … Read more

Information Security Office expands security awareness training

April 6, 2020

In 2019, the University’s security awareness training was completely transformed with the introduction of a new training module. Since then, the Information Security Office within ITS has made significant progress in expanding the program to groups across campus. So far, … Read more

Researcher Juan Carlos Caro relies on Research Computing

April 4, 2020

Customer Case Study Juan Carlos Caro is a UNC-Chapel Hill doctoral candidate through the Health Policy Management Department of the Gillings School of Public Health. Caro became a client of ITS Research Computing while working on his doctoral dissertation. The Client While conducting his dissertation research, Caro collaborated … Read more

New program develops ServiceNow experts

April 3, 2020

The IT Service Management team was grappling with a growing number of departmental requests for more ServiceNow features while struggling to hire developers to implement those features. The team chose an innovative solution: use one part of the problem to … Read more

ITS Service Desk director to retire

March 27, 2020

The chief of the ITS Service Desk is retiring after 30 years at UNC-Chapel Hill. Sharon Glover, who has led the Service Desk for seven years — one year as interim director and six years permanent — will retire April … Read more

Guidance on hardware repairs while CRC operations are suspended

March 23, 2020

Following the UNC System directive to suspend in-person, non-essential services to help stop the spread of COVID-19, the Computer Repair Center is closed and unable to perform any hardware repairs. Protecting the health, safety and well-being of our campus community … Read more