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Looking Back at Betty Blanchette and Her 24 Years at UMBC

“You can always count on her to get the job done”

After 24 years at UMBC, Betty Blanchette, Software Developer for DoIT, is retiring. Blanchette not only leaves behind a varied career, but a positive impact on UMBC and the many people she has...

Posted: March 30, 2017, 2:24 PM

REX Tools for Teaching Available to Instructors

Get a Bird's Eye View of Your Course Across Campus

In recent years, the Office of Institutional Research and Decision Support  (IRADS) has installed or built a nifty set of “bird’s eye view” reports about teaching & learning in the campus’...

Posted: March 28, 2017, 2:09 PM

Meet Lily Prokop: Student IT Consultant & Oboist

Technology Support Center is a place for all sorts of majors

The Technology Support Center (TSC) is the first stop in assisting the UMBC community with technology questions and requests. The TSC is made possible thanks to its many student workers, who all...

Posted: March 27, 2017, 11:53 AM

2017-03-17 RT Scheduled Downtime

As part of DoIT's ongoing commitment to security, the Unix Infrastructure group will be conducting its quarterly system patching  for RT on Friday, March 17th from 5pm to 6pm.   For more...

Posted: March 16, 2017, 7:58 AM

Residential Network Outage Monday Evening

Monday evening around 7:15 pm there was a power outage on part of the campus which caused some of the core switches in the Residential Network to crash and their configuration became corrupted. ...

Posted: March 14, 2017, 10:01 AM