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Fort Lewis College:FLC?? Enrollment continues to decline ????Completed the SUMMIT project ????????Feasibility studies are starting for:??????? New Bachelor’s Degrees??????????? Accelerated Bachelor of Science in Nursing??????????? Environmental Science* ????????????Information Technology ????????????Small Business/Entrepreneurship (added by the Summit Council) ?????????New Graduate Degrees??????????? Master’s in Professional Management ?????????New Micro-Credentials??????????? Pre-Health Sciences* ????????????Elementary/Early Childhood Education* ????????????Digital Marketing* ????????????Ski Resort Operations* ????????????Natural Resource Management* ?????????New General Education/First Year Experience??????????? Pre-Orientation Experiences* ????????????Peer Mentor Program* ?????????Existing Curricular/Co-Curricular Alignment to 21st Century Skills??????????? Office of Honors Education and Academic Excellence* ?????????New Student Entrepreneurship/Incubator??????????? Reed Center for Community Development and Innovation ????????* denotes those ideas picked to be studied firstImplementing a Zoom classroom for learning at a distance.Moved to Biweekly Payroll July 1, 2017Continued partnership with Royall for Admissions CampaignUpdated Admissions Application to allow for Self-Reporting and working on Auto-DecisionGoal to have Banner XE (forms transformation only) in Prod by end of calendar yearEAB Student Success Collaborative (SSC) contract up in 2018 – looking at and considering alternative solutionsFaculty and Staff migrated to Office 365Public Folders not migrated to Office 365, we are creating Office 365 groupsHPE Blade deployment in active data centersVMware vSphere 6.5Data Center Core Switch Upgrade Nex 5K to Nex 9KPacketfence NAC Upgrade latest v.7.2Blackboard Transact Card Access Expansion in Residence HallsReduced Bandwidth from 3 Gigs to 2 GigsWestern State Colorado UniversityWebReacquisition of the web from marketingWeb Accessibility InitiativeNetworking20 hour Century Link outage as a result of an ‘upgrade’Continuing network refresh in Res Halls, ongoingAfter 10 years of investigating, we are adding redundant internet connection via microwaveConnecting to Region 10 networkContinuing to work with FRGP and WAPA to establish an independent fiber path to GunnisonReplaced edge router to accommodate 10GB and additional network connectionsSetting up second Palo Alto firewallUpgrade to 10GB in datacenterDropped CableTVSystem AdministratorInvestigating enterprise backup solutions.ConstructionBuilding addition with third HD video classroom for our Masters in Environmental Management ProgramAcademic ProgramsAdding MBA program for Fall 2018Adding two 3+2 programsInvestigating Blackboard LMS cloud hostingERPBanner 9, cont., Admin Pages by DecemberCashnet Mobile PaymentPersonnelAttempting to? hire a Web Developer and Site ManagerAttempting to hire an Application AdminPolicyNew IT Acquisition PolicyAdams State University 5 Minute MadnessMigration to Atrium campus card including door hardware and locks replacing old Heartland OneCard systemOngoing camera installations, high demandBanner 9 ongoing, ESMApp Xtender 8.1 upgradeNew tax offset updating deprecated processesMajor Teacher Ed project overhaul from custom forms to baseline/3rd partyWent live with DegreeWorks this semesterMoving to EverFi for IT Security, FERPA, Title IX and other campus trainingHR/Payroll PIA and next stepsFederal Department of Ed Program Review- Financial AidAccount management clean-up ongoingNCAA ATS system implementationCoursEval system implementedWorking on ADA compliance fixes for Ext. Studies.Campus IT Project request policy/flowchart implementationIT Strategic Plan implemented Rolling out Aruba wireless mesh in problem areasNormal switch and access point replacementsTwo internet outages in first month of semester, investigating another vendor/independent link2 gig link still sufficient (1.1 peak utilization so far)Voip analog conversions, final stretch of PBX replacement in Res HallsCEPH distributed storage Moving more production services into Docker containers, looking into orchestrationMinimization of VMWare environment in favor of Open Nebula Linux KVMMoving primary website to WordPress, overall web redesign projectFederal Department of Education Financial Aid review this monthHLC site visit in November, probation status hopefully lifted in February, more likely June 2018MSU Denver Five Minute Madness??New president, new CIO, new building. High turnover in senior institutional?positions this summer/fall.?National search for ITS Dir App Svcs; 1 vacancy in sr leadership team remaining?Skype for Business VOIP Rollout – just over half of users migrated.? Expecting completion by Dec. 1.?Banner 9?NIST security assessment starting next week?ITS senior leadership working on building mid-level management skills, and instituting better processes for hiring??Discontinuing contract with managed security provider.? Replacing with internal staff and tools such as Insight IDR from Rapid7. ?Published new IT Security Policies reduced from 120+ pages to 15 pages. ?Evaluating options to replace Kaspersky, including ESET and PaloAlto Traps?Replaced digicert certificates with InCommon certs – unlimited for one low price.? ?Teaching and Learning with Technology Symposium (TLTS) to be held Friday, October 13?Microsoft Teams rollout to replace slack and other tools that were in use.?Footprints for Project Management?Working on expanding SCCM and JAMF to cover all devices??Nutanix proof of concept?StatusPage.IO rolled out for advising campus of system outages and events?Evaluating Slate to replace Ellucian Recruit?Building Data Warehouse – Approximately 50% complete, should finish July 2018?Degree Works upgrade?Document imaging and app extender upgrades?Docusign contract review???CCCS Five Minute MadnessWAN router replacement for all campus locations - 38 routersInstalling secondary circuit to all campuses where we can get carrier and path diversityMPLS implementation for PCI compliance and traffic isolationInternet feeds from the two data centers provide geographically separated, redundant, high capacity, Internet points of presenceDeploying F5 global traffic managersDeployed new Cisco Source Fire and Fire Power next gen firewallsVPN upgradeSIP migration planning to eliminate legacy PRI servicesAbout 50% complete with secondary data center deployment – currently have AD, DNS, VoIP, and Exchange E-Mail running in active/active.? Working on Banner applications in an active/active application layer with Oracle hot standby database failover.Going live with Cherwell, our Helpdesk/Incident Management/Change Management solution on Monday?AD Consolidation from 27 child domains to 2Exchange Email upgrade to 2016Windows 10 upgrades throughout the systemWe were able to get a grant from Microsoft which paid to have Microsoft Consulting Services come on site.They helped us to get all of the colleges up and running on the same deployment tools (SCCM)We created a single reference image.They provided us with tools for customizing the OS, and we have created a central repository for this information and other tools.More than 7,000 computers have been upgraded so far.We are upgrading our Citrix environment to the latest version, and we are adding FRCC along with TSJC to the system.We are using it primarily for published applications and streamed CNET Wireless projectWe are creating a single common wireless SSID throughout the system, that will allow all of our production devices to connect to the production network at any of our campuses, automatically.We are setting it up using certificate based EAP-TLS authentication.Implemented new bookstore integrations for three schools this summer for use by students and Faculty in the Fall term (eCampus and BBA).·?????????Currently implementing another bookstore integration for two more schools (Follett).·?????????Developed consolidated Financial Statement reports driven by the ODS aiding in Fiscal Year End Reporting/Processing·?????????IT Governance Process continues to mature·?????????Implementing mobile payment technology via iPad – working with CashNET·?????????Updated CORE File transfer processing to allow multiple periods to be staged/fed during a single processing window.EAB Navigate and CampusRecruit to the cloudBanner 9IT Governance?- Communicating with our users on an evolved process this fall.Luminis 5.3 Upgrades?- Updating our Luminis portal and introducing responsive design.Luminis - Banner Roles?- Building out our Banner definitions to automate the content targeting process.BDM Retention?- Building in our retention policies to purge documents from our imaging system.Open Positions:?We do have an opening for a Sr. Project Manager to replace Michael.?Developing numerous reports through ODS in order to streamline bi-weekly and monthly Payroll processing.- Integrating with vendor The Work Number in order to provide instant employment verification.- Integrating with the state classified employee benefit system, Benefit Solver, to provide a more efficient enrollment experience.CSU 5 Minute Madness CHECO, September 2017InfrastructureNetwork VOIP: Running SIPFoundry’s “Canary” code release – final stages of migrating 7000+ phones to open sourceDisabling PoE on ports where it is not required – helps with unauthorized phone movesStarted installing Cisco 6800s and moving routing from the core to the buildingUpgrading firewalls for datacenter (Juniper) and Residence halls (Palo Alto)Provisioned MS System Center Configuration Manager as a central service for system deployment and management of Endpoint ProtectionWorking with VPR’s office on compliance with Federal grant requirements (NIST 800-171 standard for controlled unclassified information, Federal Acquisition Regulation, etc.)High Performance Computing (HPC)Received a joint NSF MRI award with CU for a $3.5M HPC system, awarded to Dell. Implementing the Purdue “condo model” Recently upgraded Cray system with new processors & memoryImplementing a joint Cyber Teams grant from NSF with CU and UU Deploying Duo for 2-factor authentication all employees this year.Moving from TSM and Veeam to Avamar/DataDomain for backup (moving from tape to disk only backups)Implementing a cost-recovery research storage projectWorking with MS now, and Amazon soon, to provide cloud-based services.Faculty/staff email on O365, also Sharepoint OnlineHousing Continues to face bandwidth pressure as we added more wireless and a new 950 bed apartment complex and are going to 10 gig links to all MDFs and 20 gig to the core. Upgrading switch hardware from Cisco to HPImplementing CBord recipe/menu/ordering system for Dining ServicesLooking at one-card (access control) technologyAdministrative SystemsImplemented Timeclock Plus for for overtime exempt salaried employees - time clock for hourly, and leave management for all employees Looking at BIRST and WebFocus to replace eThority and DiscovererRunning Banner 9 Self-Service RegistrationMigrating Applications Manager from AIX to Linux Kuali Kuali Research proposal development now live.Chancellor recently approved:Joining Kuali student as a development project.Moving to Kuali Research in the cloud (currently on-prem).Will deploy Desire to Learn as an employee training platformAcademic Initiatives CSU is the academic sponsor for Semester at Sea. The third “CSU” voyage is under way.Using Qualtrics to replace paper student course surveysDigital Measures’ Faculty Staff Activity System (FSAS) is the official Faculty Activity Reporting (FAR) system.Adaptive Learning applications being deployed as part of an APLU grant.Unizin Using Vericite for anti-plagiarism. Enhancements just delivered.Unizin Data Warehouse (UDW) being developed, working on data architecture issues. “Snapshot” faculty dashboard enhancements underwayNew tools include content repository and etext/collaboration platform (Engage).IPASS-2 (Integrated Planning and Advising Services) implemented, now working on phase 2 funded by Gates Foundation through EDUCAUSE to include;Enhanced advisor toolsAdditional (predictive) services from EAB SSC and Grades FirstRefining model for sending academic alerts to students, EAB will allow us to add alerts to their advisor dashboardNew classroom technologies; refreshing wireless microphone system, deploying laser projectors in pilot program, WiFi access to projectors.Lecture Capture- likely persisting with Echo360 through transition to cloud service (summer 2017).Looking to extend the use of 3Play Media for captioning video content. Assessing how to react to prescriptive state mandates to 1) include learning objectives in large freshman classes, and 2) include information fluency in our curriculum.Recent Strategic Business Alliance awarded to Herman Miller for furniture, focus on offices and classroomsLibrariesInflation for library journals & subscription services has reached “crisis” levels – unsustainable Running Ex Libris Alma/Primo for almost a year nowRunning DSPace as an Institutional Repository for 7 Colorado University Libraries Other Wrapping up Phase 3 of IT consolidation activity. Areas of interest:Required use of Office 365 for email and calendaringConsidering migration of student accounts from Google to O365MS Domain ConsolidationData Center Help Desk Content Management System StandardizationEvent Management Implemented iLab Operations Software for Core Research FacilitiesNew on-campus stadium went live Fall, 20175Bars was awarded the New Chemistry, Biology, and Health Center also opened this fallCDWG replaced Zunesis as CSU’s Strategic Business Alliance with HP for Windows laptops and desktop systems.Verizon contract renewal – talking with TMobile about possible SBA Signed an agreement with Wireless Watchdogs to manage CSU’s Verizon accountsMoving emergency alerts from Rave to Everbridge, at no cost thanks to Larimer County’s site licenseUNCPMO Office and Project Process adjustmentsWe are continuing our investment in Governance GroupsWe have new building to centralize student services and provide performance hall? Fall 19 One Stop Centralization ServicesAzure Paas Emergency WebsiteTech TransferFinding solutions to partnerships with International UniversitiesSecurityHIPAA compliance review for every individual user / departmentDLP for email implemented and DLP for Microsoft shares in test – via Microsoft Malware detections at end points significantly decreased as perimeter and email focused malware solutions have been deployedFortiGuard devices reach maturity in function and reportingDUO deployment for VPN and VDI under considerationLast Pass Password ManagementVulnerability Management Process has reached maturity, incremental process improvements Security is requesting function team reporting for audit and reviewPCI compliance, full evaluation Security education program improvementsSecurity gamification initiative Completion of virtual privileged access realm ?Infrastructure & Support Services?Completed Cisco UCS Bade RefreshCanvas LMS fully implemented for and utilized this fallMigrated all faculty staff email to Office 365 with ATPMigrating departmental network shares to OneDriveImplementing Ricoh Managed Print and Multifunction Printing SolutionContinuing to rollout pharos to campus printers, long term centralizing fleet and billing by departmentContinuing the process of removing IP Phones from Residence HallsCompleted campus wide Cisco Edge and Wireless upgradeConducted RFP and selected Easy Vista for new ITSMRFP in progress to select PC Hardware vendorRFP in progress to select new backup and recovery hardware and softwareImplementing Paper Scorer for bubble sheet scanning and Canvas implementation?ISAWent Live:Common App.Degree Works 4.6.1Digital Measures Workflow.Notifii EduRecruiter 3.9Parchment Receive??Implementing:Banner 9 Student, Finance, A/R, Self-service, Registration going live in October.? Currently live in Test.? Academic Works implementation bridge.Upgrading to WebFocus 8.2Getting rid of EDW – creating own solution. Purchasing Slate to replace Recruiter?Investigating:Canvas CatalogOracle 12cCampus LogicBanner 9 – Financial AidAIMSCHECO 2017 5 Minute MadnessCollege wide Strategic PlanStaffingCTO Director Network and Telecom Director Technical Support ServicesSystems Admin Network Admin - (starts October 3rd)New BuildingsPSI Building - Windsor CampusPERC Building - Greeley CampusATTC Applied Technology and Trades Center building - Greeley CampusPurchasing Building w/ new Receiving warehouseWith completion of new buildings as mentioned above, completing fiber ring around campusBuilding RemodelsWelding remodel - joined to ATTC buildingHansen Remodel - College Center - 1 SuiteWestview - 3 Office SuitesCornerstone - 2 Office SuitesVirtualized Banner - from 4 Solaris physical servers to 28 Linux virtual servers (separating functions) - this was mostly for Banner 9x admin pages architecture.Solarwinds ImplementationNCM (Network Configuration Manager) and SAM (Server & Application Manager)Web Help Desk VMWare View Upgrade v7.0 to v7.1Avaya Communication Manager VirtualizationAD Updating/TweakingFixing WSUSNew endpoint management solutionStandardizing/expanding digital signageInventory managementApplied Technology and Trades Center buildingHelpdesk system – Solarwinds HelpdeskBusiness Process ReviewsElectronic Requisitions and ApprovalsAccounts Payable Travel and Expense reimbursementsPosition Control and encumbranceElectronic leave approvalsTo Do:Faculty Load and CompensationCourse SchedulingAccounts ReceivableContract Management System – electronic signaturesPrep for Banner 9 – October move to PROD for all Admin pages and upgrade 9x Self-ServiceBanner Data DefenseBiz Library – employee professional developmentStudent Organizations tracking tool – PresenceBanner Access Request Form – electronic access request/control for BannerRevamping IT GovernanceAccreditation visit next month Evaluating Luminis - are we going to keep it? Replace it?PII remediationODS upgrade & move to virtual serverUpgraded Banner WorkflowSeveral Recruit upgrades. Now on 4.8DUO, GlobalProtect VPNSecurity Training program using KnowBe4SAS reporting toolRevising / adding to IT Policies and ProceduresBDM upgradeDegree Works upgradeSecurity camera expansion ................
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