Comments on Illinois Wesleyan University’s Information Technology: planning and operations
Posted in Operations on Apr 21st, 2008
We’re seeing an increasing number of takedown notices from the RIAA this semester. Generally these notices mention copyrighted songs being shared from student computers using either the gnutella (bearshare, limewire, etc.) or bittorrent protocols. When we receive such a notice, if we can identify the student computer responsible, we will take the computer off the [...]
Posted in Operations on Apr 17th, 2008
For the past week we have had intermittent trouble with access to the Ames Library catalog. The University hosts the library catalog on servers operated by CARLI, the Consortium for Academic and Research Libraries in Illinois. We have done extensive troubleshooting to determine the source of the problem, and at this time the problem appears [...]
Posted in Planning & Assessment on Apr 10th, 2008
We’ve begun our 2008 Techqual+ Survey of student perceptions of information technology on campus. The survey will be open for the next two weeks, and responding students will be entered in a drawing to win one of twenty $10 gift certificates from the Illinois Wesleyan University Bookstore.
This is our second time using the Techqual+ survey [...]
Posted in Operations on Apr 9th, 2008
I’m pleased to report that, from a technology perspective, registration for the Fall 2008 semester went very well. We had registration events on 4/2, 4/4, 4/7, and 4/9. As of 8am this morning there were 1476 students registered for the Fall semester (entering students will register in August.)
This is a significant improvement from the problems [...]
Posted in Planning & Assessment on Apr 4th, 2008
The Board of Trustees approved the preliminary budget for 2008-2009. This budget includes funds for both operating equipment and capital projects. A memo outlining the process for requesting equipment from the University’s operating equipment budgets for 2008-2009 has been sent to academic and administrative department heads. Department heads have been asked to submit operating [...]