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Quarterly System Patching over the next two weeks

As part of our ongoing commitment to security, the Unix Infrastructure group will be conducting its quarterly system patching on Friday August 12th, Tuesday August 16th, and Saturday August 20th....

Posted: August 9, 2016, 3:24 PM

Blackboard Downtime Scheduled Sun. Morning, Aug 21st, 1-5 AM

Essential system updates & routine maintenance expected

Blackboard engineers will perform essential system updates and routine maintenance on Sunday morning, August 21, 2016, from 1 AM - 5 AM. Blackboard will be offline during this period.  In...

Posted: August 8, 2016, 2:50 PM

Email Survey / Mystery Shopper Scams

Once you wire the money to the thief, it's gone.

We have received multiple complaints about people receiving fraudulent job offer emails from con-artists.  In some of the job offers, the con-artist offers to pay $200 for completing testing and...

Posted: August 5, 2016, 11:20 PM

DoIT and VART Partner on Lynda.com License

Online tutorials to help free up faculty prep and class time

To help free up faculty time currently given to in-class software training or even home grown and self-curated online video demos, DoIT and Visual Arts (VART) have partnered to share a one-year,...

Posted: August 4, 2016, 11:50 AM