By Jim Phillips and Jim Williamson. Over a decade ago, the Information Technology Services (ITS) Division at UC Santa Cruz had a structure that was fairly typical in higher education. The ITS Division was organized around a set of central enterprise services, with groups of decentralized support staff embedded in the academic and administrative divisions. At that time, the reallocation of distributed staff into a central ITS Division resulted in

All five UC Health systems have received the highest-level designation in the College of Healthcare Information Management Executives’ (CHIME) 2019 Most Wired survey. The designation recognizes these organizations’ commitment to using their health IT resources to improve health and care in their communities. “How fitting that our health systems be recognized for their strategic use of IT to impact the quality of patient care and efficiency of health care delivery,”

By Rita Rosenthal. Dedication to making the student experience on campus easier to navigate is at the core of the work done by the creative and innovative people who support our Student Information Systems (SIS). The SIS team is responsible for implementing and operating UC Berkeley’s PeopleSoft Campus Solutions and CalCentral. These technology systems support mission-critical academic and administrative processes, including admissions, financial aid, registration, enrollment, course management, advising, billing

CENIC is now accepting presentation proposals for its annual conference, The Right Connection: CENIC 2020. Proposals are due December 2, 2019. Session presentations should highlight innovative uses of CENIC’s CalRen to support California research and education communities. Presenters are encouraged to explore a variety of formats and topics that will help participants connect more deeply with the CalREN community and excite their imaginations about the possibilities of their work. Possible

By Sonia Fernandez. We live in an era of too much information — an endless stream of status updates, memes, reposts, infographics, quotes and hashtags roll daily through our social media feeds, meant to express viewpoints, drum up solidarity, provide information, change minds or cause controversy. Problem is, the average online browser/social media user doesn’t have the time or wherewithal to investigate the legitimacy or provenance of everything that shows

At UC, all kinds of interesting even incredible work happens in IT. We feature it in this blog – and readers provide many of the stories. That’s why we call this blog “the story of us.” If you or your team are doing something interesting, contributing to the blog is a great way share it, not just with the folks in the next building or across campus, but across the

By David Rusting. As I reflect on UC’s journey managing cyber-risk, particularly over the past four years, I’m proud of our collective accomplishments. Two weeks ago, I was able to share UC’s approach, experiences, and lessons’ learned with higher education colleagues at the EDUCAUSE Annual Conference in Chicago. I want to share them within UC too. We have a lot to be proud of. UC is an amazing and unique

By Harrison Tasoff. Cyber security is constantly evolving as security experts and their adversaries develop and adapt new techniques to their trade. Researchers, companies and professionals from the security community discussed emerging trends in the field during the 8th semiannual UC Cyber Security Summit, hosted by UC Santa Barbara. “The purpose of the conference is to raise people’s awareness and understanding of the threats and the type of technologies that

By John A. Lynch. In Fall 2017, UCLA Humanities Technology was faced with needing to undertake a major PHP version upgrade of a locally hosted, custom application that provides web-based 24/7 scheduling for thousands of appointments annually for the Undergraduate Writing Center (UWC). This UWC Scheduler supports thousands of undergrads every year and facilitates the matching of peer writing tutors with undergraduates who need writing help. At the same time,

By Holly Ober. Fatemah Alharbi breaks things in order to learn how to fix them. Not just any old things. Computer operating systems, to be exact, and she conducted research that earned public gratitude from Apple. If she doesn’t look like a hacker that’s because she isn’t, really. She’s a doctoral candidate in computer science at the University of California, Riverside with an interest in computer and network security that puts