Colleagues, President Mearns will be meeting with each division across campus over the next several months. Some of you may remember the “Campus Conversations” we did with the President in March of 2020, and these meetings will follow a similar format. Fortunately, we don’t have the same COVID-19 restrictions we had in March of 2020, […]
Tax season is upon us and many cyber criminals target unsuspecting taxpayers with various scams. Information Technology and the Office of Information Security would like to make you aware of several common tax-related scams that you may experience. Most cyber criminals use the same tried-and-true methods for tax scams as they do with other targeted […]
News and information from the latest IT Leadership Team meeting. General Information Technology The IT leadership team will be scheduling presentations from IT employees who want to present an idea or new concept—anything that helps campus: IT, student enrollment/success, etc. If you’d like to take advantage of this opportunity, please present your idea to your […]
Information Security Services is happy to announce that Mike West has joined their team as an Enterprise Security Engineer. Mike is formerly a Data Integration Specialist in ITS and has 9 years of experience in IT at Ball State. Mike’s new duties will include network and user behavioral analysis, vulnerability management, incident response, and other security […]
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 […]
