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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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Welcome new UIT team members: Executive Assistants
Mary Jensen and Alisha Brucker have each accepted the position of Executive Assistant with UIT. Mary will report to Andrea Ballinger, and Alisha will report to David McMorries.
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New SOC Hire: Lead Security Analyst
The Office of Information Security is pleased to announce that after a very competitive search, Tarren Meyers will be joining the Security Operations Center as a Lead Security Analyst.