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Breaking barriers for women in IT
In the spring of 2022, the University Information and Technology Executive Team led by Chief Information Officer Andrea Ballinger nominated six women from OSU to attend a five-week EDUCAUSE series for central IT workers called Women Advance Technology. Throughout the series, the cohort had a chance to reflect on the challenges, obstacles and opportunities they had encountered in their careers. As they continued to meet, they saw an opportunity to create a community of support and provide more resources for women working in IT roles at OSU. Because as they compared notes and shared their experiences, they realized that the barriers they’d encountered weren’t unique. It wasn’t “just me.” Other women were having parallel experiences, leading to self-doubt, burnout, retention issues and additional stress at work.
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Building the Oregon Connection
Through our statewide networking partnership, Link Oregon, OSU is an active participant and leader in statewide activities aimed at closing Oregon’s digital divide and promoting digital inclusion. IT capabilities at OSU locations across Oregon have increased, including research labs, extension offices, and agricultural research stations.
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Snail Traps + Bird Boxes: How Roots IT enables researchers
In the College of Agricultural Sciences, Roots IT works to solve problems and enable technical support for researchers, providing ways of capturing and storing data while out in the field as well as providing for on-campus needs.
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Highlighting IT Excellence
Many teams and individuals across IT at OSU have demonstrated excellence in their roles in the last year. This highlight is just a fraction of our OSU IT community members who have demonstrated excellence in their work, been recognized for their achievements, or received relevant and important certifications.
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Plenary Recap: Spring22
The spring ’22 plenary, held on June 2, focused on communicating our key activities and initiatives leading into fall 2022, and the ways in which OSU IT is advancing the university’s top goals for technology and data within Strategic Plan 4.0.
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OIS Welcomes Doug Weir to the IAM Team
The Office of Information Security has had some turnover in the Identity and Access Management team: Michelle Lewis has left as the Manager of this team to take a great opportunity at the College of Engineering supporting the Cybersecurity Program; we will miss her, and she did wonderful things while she was here! Doug Weir has…
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CIO Andrea Ballinger to participate in panel on gender inclusivity in the IT workplace
On Wednesday, January 11, Andrea and three other panelists representing both higher education and the private sector, will discuss how they are working to build more gender-diverse teams.
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New IAM Manager hired
The Office of Information Security is pleased to announce that Michelle Lewis has accepted the IT Manager of Identity & Access Management position. Michelle brings a breadth of experience including roles while at OSU and roles prior to joining the OSU team.