Several members of the Information Technology team recently joined other Ball State employees to volunteer and raise funds for the annual “Women Build” project for The Greater Muncie Indiana Habitat for Humanity. Kortnie Huffman from ITS, and Jenn Eber and Marchal Hudson from UTS joined five other Ball State volunteers of Cardinal Red Team 2 […]
Information Technology has recently had several updates to its open and pending employee positions. Non-Exempt Open positions (posting soon): Ball State Information Representatives – 2 part-time positions available (ITS) Equipment Resource Coordinator (UMS) Search in progress: Production Coordinator for UMS – Currently 3 candidates to interview Exempt Open positions (posting soon): Data Integration Specialist (ITS) […]
Information Technology’s Digital Corps has been working with the Muncie Afghan Refugee Resettlement Committee (MARRC) to help welcome to Muncie many of the thousands of refugees from Afghanistan who were housed at Camp Atterbury—a military training base near Edinburgh, Indiana—earlier this Fall. Many of the refugees arrived with only the clothes on their backs. Some […]
Andrew Thomas, a Development Master in Information Technology’s Digital Corps, has successfully leveraged his recent internship position with Amazon into a full-time position with the company in Austin, Texas. Andrew explains: “My recent internship with Amazon was a huge success. My favorite part was their “ownership” culture—i.e., whatever you’re working on, you own. For me, […]
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 […]
