The Digital Corps has wrapped up their Fall 2021 hiring season and has hired 14 new Apprentices for the 2021-22 academic year. These new Apprentices have begun training for their respective roles (Design, Development, UX, Video, Communications) and will start working on Digital Corps projects when they finish. In addition to the new Apprentices, the […]
News and information from the latest IT Leadership Team meeting. General Information Technology All Student Success CRM vendor demos are complete, and the CRM Committee’s vendor evaluations have been sent to the Executive Committee for a final selection. IT has six available positions: a Database Administrator (ITS), an Enterprise Security Engineer, (ISS) a Project Manager […]
News and information from the latest IT Leadership Team meeting. General Information Technology We continue to shepherd the Student Success CRM RFP through its process. Four vendors made presentations of their solutions to the CRM Advisory Group, and we are gathering feedback for the Executive Team to make a final vendor choice. We have released […]
Greg Durbin, Project Manager and Enterprise Systems Release Coordinator in the Enterprise Project Support Office (EPSO), will be retiring from Ball State on Tuesday, August 31, after nearly 19 years of service. Greg has worked in a number of technology areas at Ball State over his career. Originally hired in 2002 for operational expertise in the […]
Ball State’s IT leadership team meets regularly to discuss topics important to the division. To keep IT employees updated about this news and information about the division, the leadership team has begun a program to post regular updates here on the IT blog. Each update will contain brief summaries of recent news, events, job postings, […]
The Division of Information Technology would like to announce the upcoming retirement of Dan Lutz, Associate Vice President, effective July 1, 2021. Dan began his relationship with Ball State University as a freshman in the fall of 1975, and later became a full-time employee. In his 40 year career at Ball State, he has worked […]
As part of Ball State’s annual Employee Recognition reception on April 28, several Information Technology employees were recognized for their long years of service to the university. We are proud of the contributions these employees have had to Information Technology and the university and wish to thank all of them for their talents and service. […]
Ball State University remains committed to helping Indiana communities grow and prosper. The Indiana Communities Institute (ICI) in the Miller College of Business brings together many of Ball State’s top research and outreach activities to assist Indiana communities as they strive to improve life experiences for residents, businesses and visitors. Information Technology’s Digital Corps was […]
Andrew Thomas, a Development Master in Information Technology’s Digital Corps, has successfully obtained an internship position over the summer at Amazon in Austin, Texas. He will begin his hybrid internship (spending some time working in the office, some time working remotely) with the Amazon Operations organization on May 17, 2021. Andrew applied for the position […]
Ball State University’s College of Communication, Information, and Media has created an official varsity Cardinals eSports team, joining more than 300 colleges and universities to compete nationally in a fast-growing digital sport. Ball State’s new team is one of 12 members of the Mid-American Conference (MAC) to join the newly created independent eSports Collegiate Conference […]
