To our campus community,
We are writing to inform you of a necessary shutdown of our Data Center scheduled for Friday, May 31, 2024. This work is required to support the campus research mission and to provide improved resilience for the Data Center to run on generator power during campus outages. Berkeley IT will be working with Facilities Management to make mechanical and electrical system upgrades that will reduce the impact of unplanned campus power outages in the future.
Have you worked on something you’re proud of? Looking for a way to share it with a larger audience? Present it at this year’s UC Tech 2024: Collaboration for Transformation, from October 27-29, co-hosted by UC Davis Health and UC Davis!
According to the World Health Organization, an estimated 1.3 billion people — 16% of the world’s population, or 1 in 6 of us — currently experience significant disability. Another 1 in 3 people are projected to experience a permanent or temporary disability in the next 10 years.
“Student-to-Staff” is a series featuring stories from Cal alumni who are now career employees in One IT. This series was created to show the importance of investing in our student staff, and how vital their work is to the university and its mission.
Finley worked on campus throughout their time as an undergrad student. After graduating with a degree in Applied Mathematics, they now work full-time at Berkeley D-Lab! Learn how Finley’s hard work and dedication led to a full-time position at UC Berkeley.
Do you work with student staff? If so, when was the last time you gave them a shoutout for work well done? It’s National Student Employment Week, a time to recognize student employees' valuable contributions to our colleges and universities. Observed annually during the second week in April, this celebration isn’t just about thanking students for their hard work, but also about raising awareness of the important skills and experience they gain through these positions, which can benefit them academically and professionally in the long run.
To our campus community,
Following extensive campus review, we are pleased to announce that the updated Minimum Security Standards for Electronic Information (MSSEI) was ratified on Feb. 29, 2024, effective April 1, 2024. The Information Security Office is in the process of updating its website to reflect these changes. Visit the MSSEI home page to view the revised standards.
Dear Campus Community,
We are pleased to announce the launch of an improved Campus Directory Update tool that allows you to customize privacy settings for individual data fields. These recent enhancements allow you to have better control over who can view your data listed in the campus directory plus offer a more intuitive design.
You now have the option to select how your data is displayed in the directory by using a drop-down menu for each field. Options include:
The University of Colorado Boulder’s User Experience Research & Design (UXRD) team (part of the Office of Information Technology (OIT) includes staff and student employee user experience (UX) researchers and designers who partner with the university to improve the technology experiences of students, faculty and staff.
Hello, One IT Community,
This year, the 2024 EDUCAUSE Annual Conference will be hosted in San Antonio, TX (and online), and I wanted to share a few notable Conference opportunities, dates, and deadlines:
Be a Conference proposal reviewer: March 28, 2024 (details below)
In honor of Women's History Month and International Women’s Day, the UC Womxn in Technology Committee (UC WIT) hosted a speaker series to address a hot topic on all of our minds, the world of Artificial Intelligence (AI). Far too often, the field is dominated by male voices. This series aims to showcase the significant contributions these women are making to AI development, while also underscoring the challenges that AI has presented (and continues to present) for women, and other underrepresented groups.
Congratulations to Annette Rios, associate IT director at the Goldman School of Public Policy (GSPP), for being selected to represent UC Berkeley in the annual Women Rock ITarticle in the UC IT Blog!
At the Women in Data Science conference held at UC Berkeley this past week, four educators affiliated with the School of Information presented to a crowd of over 60 attendees.
"Student-to-Staff” is a series featuring stories from Cal alumni who started working at UC Berkeley as students and are now career employees in technology roles on campus. This series was created to show the importance of investing in our student staff, and how vital their work is to the University and its mission. In this special Women’s History Month Edition, read about the women highlighted in this series, and their unique experiences on how they came into their full-time roles in tech.
“Student-to-Staff” is a series featuring stories from Cal alumni who are now career employees in One IT. This series was created to show the importance of investing in our student staff, and how vital their work is to the university and its mission.
Pauline Kerschen came to UC Berkeley with the goal of getting a Ph.D. in English literature, and today she’s a software developer for Research, Teaching, and Learning (RTL). Learn about her unlikely journey, and what inspired her to change course.
Sometimes when businesses talk about increasing accessibility, it can feel like jargon or more buzzy words to add to the laundry list of year-end goals. But the truth is, accessibility isn’t “just good business.” It’s personal.
The application/nomination process for the UC Tech Awards program, open to all staff and faculty, is open through Wednesday, May 1, 2024, at 5 p.m.
Dear One IT Community,
In March, the CalNet team will be rolling out changes to the Campus Directory Update application (CDU) that can be used to add or update your personal information in the Campus Directory. This new application will give you more control over who can view your personal information by offering new privacy settings.
