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The UC Womxn in Technology (WIT) Committee is excited to highlight the remarkable contributions of women in IT across the UC system through the annual “UC Womxn Rock IT” blog article.

To our One IT community,

Due to the planned strike for UPTE on May 1, IT Client Services (ITCS) anticipates reduced staffing levels, impacting our ability to provide technical support to faculty and staff. Our ITCS team consists of primarily represented staff under the UPTE Technical Unit - TX. Please expect delays from the IT Service Desk, procurement, provisioning, and desktop support. We will prioritize urgent issues and respond as quickly as possible, but service levels will be impacted as follows: 

To our campus community,

Dear campus community,

Berkeley IT invites you to take our first campus-wide survey to help us better understand how well we are meeting your core technology service needs (e.g. Wi-Fi, online collaboration, helpdesk, etc.). Your input will be shared with technology governance committees and incorporated into planning and decision-making.

The survey takes less than 10 minutes. Twenty (20) participants will be randomly selected to win a $50 Amazon gift card. All responses will remain confidential.

As an undergraduate mathematics student 14 years ago, Jacob Steinhardt began to consider a future where artificial intelligence would automate most cognitive work, which he thought could have an even bigger impact than the Industrial Revolution. 

Dear Berkeley Community,

Effective April 8, all employees whose annual Cyber Security Awareness training is overdue will encounter an interruptive screen during campus system login, displaying a notification of their past-due status. You will not see this screen if your training is up to date.

To our One IT community,

Due to the planned strike for UPTE on April 1, IT Client Services (ITCS) anticipates reduced staffing levels, impacting our ability to provide technical support to faculty and staff. Our ITCS team consists of primarily represented staff under the UPTE Technical Unit - TX. Please expect delays from the IT Service Desk, procurement, provisioning, and desktop support. We will prioritize urgent issues and respond as quickly as possible, but service levels will be impacted as follows: 

McKalee Steen traces her career in data science to her family's efforts toward environmental justice when the creek running through their farm in northeastern Oklahoma had been polluted by a chicken processing plant and was contaminating their well water. Her community fought to hold the company accountable, and a neighbor who was a scientist helped collect water samples, generating data that led to a legal settlement.

One IT colleagues,

The bConnected team is announcing a significant update to the management of alumni @berkeley.edu email accounts. Aiming to simplify the process for alumni to maintain their accounts, a new activity requirement will replace the previous renewal system, effective April 15, 2025.

When Gašper Beguš began studying linguistics, he spent his time deciphering ancient, largely dead languages. “Nobody cared about linguistics,” he says in this episode of 101 in 101, a series from UC Berkeley that challenges professors and other experts to distill the basics of their field of study into only 101 seconds. 

We’ve made some changes to our network security setup, which will affect how you experience logging into the campus bSecure VPN.

Why the Change?

• Better security - This new method allows you to use your preferred browser, so outdated browsers like Internet Explorer (which is no longer supported and receiving security patches) won’t be used. 

• Remembers your CalNet cookie - This new method lets your system remember your login session and helps smooth the transition to CalNet Authenticate.

Information on systems impacted updated on 3/25/25. Wi-Fi for authenticated users (eduroam, Berkeley-IOT, Berkeley-Visitor) should not be impacted

To our campus community,