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Academia has a diversity problem, especially in STEM. There is a dearth of scientists who identify as Black, Hispanic or who are members of marginalized communities in STEM-related faculty roles at colleges and universities, studies show

Colleagues,

Dear UC Colleagues,

Planning is well underway for UC Tech 2023: Resilient, Rising & Reinspired, happening July 17-19 on the UC Berkeley campus. We are excited to announce that proposals for session presentations are now being accepted!

The University of California User Experience (UCUX) Usability Workshop is an annual event held for members of the UC community from its respective locations. It focuses on user experience (UX) research and design, which help make digital services easier to use.

Dear UC Colleagues,

To our campus community,

We are pleased to announce the launch of new wireless networks that will be available this spring semester: Berkeley-IoT (Internet of Things) and Berkeley-Visitor. Both of these new Wi-Fi options will help make our community user experience more secure and reliable as well as provide new features. Berkeley-IoT and Berkeley-Visitor will not disrupt your current Wi-Fi experience; eduroam and CalVisitor will continue to be available. 

To our campus community,

Apple released updates to their software yesterday that resolve the issues that have been impacting Wi-Fi connectivity on their devices. Our network team has worked to confirm the updates rectified the problems that have been reported. 

Updated Dec. 13, 2022: Apple has informed Berkeley IT that the software updates that were needed to rectify the issues their devices were having with Wi-Fi have been released and that this should resolve the previous connectivity problems. Our network team is working to confirm this information. If you use Apple devices (e.g.

Service owners: Please communicate directly with your customers about reduced IT support during the fall and winter holiday/curtailment periods.

To our One IT community,

To our campus community,

By Andrea McColl and Esther Silver. To the uninformed, it might seem that the goals of digital accessibility and cybersecurity would be rivals.  After all, isn’t accessibility about making it easier for people to come in, and cybersecurity about keeping people (or at least bad actors) out? 

Dear One IT Colleagues, 

Tomorrow, Nov. 29th, is “Giving Tuesday.” Giving Tuesday is a global movement focused on community and doing something good for others, such as volunteering, donating to charity, or lifting each other’s spirits during a time of year that is more difficult for some.

Tesla founder Elon Musk took over Twitter last month and installed himself as its chief executive officer. Then he laid off half the social media platform’s workforce.

Advances in brain-computer interfaces may soon make communication easier for those who have lost the ability to speak.

The EDUCAUSE 2022 Top 10 IT Issues take an optimistic view of how technology can help make the higher education we deserve—through a shared transformational vision and strategy for the institution, a recognition of the need to place students' success at the center, and a sustainable business model that has redefined "the campus."

Jeané Blunt, IT Communications Specialist

To our One IT community,

We have all heard — and some of us have experienced — how having a mentor to offer guidance can make a huge difference in any given career path. But identifying as a woman, and having a great woman as that mentor can be a total game changer.