Recent News

• UIT Holiday Party details

  We look forward to seeing everyone who reserved a ticket for this year's UIT Employee Holiday Luncheon and Prize Drawing. As always, the party will include a delicious meal, doorbuster gifts, and an exciting prize giveaway (you must be present to win)!

• One-time, 12-month Java license set to expire in May 2020

  The license buys time for system administrators to take stock of software that runs Oracle Java, and migrate to no-cost alternatives. Some options include Amazon Corretto, Azul Zulu, OpenJDK, and RedHat.

• Proud 'weird duck' Thompson planted 10,000 pineapples in 8 hours

  During his senior year at Layton High School, Marc Thompson and three classmates signed up for a character-building program in which young men were paid a small stipend in exchange for working the pineapple fields of Lānaʻi and Maui. A good day’s planting was 3,500 to 5,000 pineapples, but the boys were competitive.

Other News

• Data protection on U-owned devices, from first login to end of life

  If not properly destroyed, electronic devices containing restricted or senstive data can present a golden opportunity for criminals with the right hardware to salvage our information.

• New CIS interface will address limitations of the current portal

  The new Campus Information Services (CIS) interface, which will be released on December 28, 2019, will improve usability and reduce load demands on the portal during periods of peak use.

• Photos: USS Halloween Activity Day

  Following a lunch catered by Dickey’s Barbecue Pit and Blue Lemon, USS staff marked the holiday with a bath bomb workshop, bingo, video games, cornhole, pumpkin painting, a Nerf gun skills contest, and a screening of the perennial Halloween favorite, "Beetlejuice."

• Jake Johansen named associate director for ISO Enterprise Security

  As associate director for enterprise security, Johansen will serve as the intermediary between the CISO’s strategic and process-based policies, and the technology-focused activities of IT analysts, engineers and system administrators across campus and University of Utah Health.

• Micah Murdock named associate director for TLT Online Learning

  As associate director for online learning, Murdock will support all areas of the course management lifecycle, including ideating, designing, building, supporting, and updating course/program offerings and supporting services.

• IT governance roundup

  The Teaching and Learning Portfolio (TLP) met November 12, and the Enterprise Web Advisory Council (EWAC) met November 14.

• Kudos & Congratulations

  UIT staff recognized for their excellent work

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