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UC Tech News
June 10, 2015
All ArticlesAccessibility, Lucy Grego
Posted by Lucy Greco, web accessibility evangelist, UCB. In August 2013, UC adopted the Information Technology Accessibility Policy, establishing that all UC locations will strive to make their electronic content accessible to people with disabilities. Specifically, websites will adhere…
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June 5, 2015
All ArticlesShohreh Bozorgmehri, UC Agile, UC Davis, UC Irvine, UC Risk and Safety Solutions, UCD, UCI
Posted by Shohreh Bozorgmehri, director, Student and Academic Services Division, UCI Office of Information Technology, and Safa Hussain, executive director, UC Risk and Safety Solutions. Eleven representatives from the UC Irvine Office of Information Technology visited the UC Risk and…
Read more about UC Agile Teams Meet to Share Knowledge
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June 4, 2015
All ArticlesAlexa Rivetti, Data Science, DataEdge, UC Berkeley, UCB
Posted by Lexi Rivetti, UCB student intern at UCOP. Tucked away inside South Hall, the oldest campus building in the UC system, is Berkeley’s School of Information. To undergraduates, South Hall is a mystery, for classes in the school only…
Read more about DataEdge 2015: Inside the Data Science Phenomenon
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May 26, 2015
All ArticlesCandace Jones, Take Your Kids to Work Day, UCOP
Posted by Candace Jones, web manager, UCOP. UCOP participated in Take Your Sons and Daughters to Work Day on April 23. The Web and Application Services group joined in the festivities to talk about the information technology field and,…
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May 20, 2015
All ArticlesDavid Koehler, EDUCAUSE, Jim Phillips, Taming Application Sprawl
Posted by Jim Phillips, Director, Learning Technologies and IT Accessibility Officer, UCSC. In a recent EDUCAUSE article titled Taming Application Sprawl, David Koehler provides an easy-to-read overview of the portfolio management methodology used by campus leadership to closely consider…
Read more about Determining Value in David Koehler’s “Taming Application Sprawl”
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May 14, 2015
All ArticlesAlexa Rivetti, Sam Rausser, UC Berkeley, UCB
Posted by Lexi Rivetti, UCB student intern at UCOP. “I think I’ve saved people about $500 – $1,000 in this fraternity alone,” said Sam Rausser, UCB ‘16, swiveling in a black office chair and backlit by his four large computer…
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May 11, 2015
All ArticlesArthur Guimares, Rachel Nava, Tom Andriola, UC IT Town Hall
I host quarterly IT town hall meetings, and the next town hall is Friday, May 15, 10:00 – 11:00. Because we webstream them from UCOP (thanks to the technical staff at UCSF!), you can attend remotely. Friday’s agenda features presentations…
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May 8, 2015
All ArticlesBill Friere, UCPath, webinar
Join Bill Freire, UCPath Center IT Manager, in this webinar to learn how the UCPath Center IT team is providing enabling technologies and support for the UCPath Center. Date: Monday, May 11, 2015 Time: 11:00 a.m. – 12:00 noon Log…
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May 5, 2015
All Articlescollaboration, Safa Hussein, Tom Andriola, UC CIO, UC Risk and Safety Solutions
A strategy to drive more synergy in IT across UC is to engage in more shared services. Initiatives like UCPath certainly will do that, but large programs are complicated and take several years to deploy. Grassroots efforts, meaning campus-led IT…
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May 4, 2015
All ArticlesHealthcare, UC IT Town Hall
Watch this short video about interesting activities in IT at UC right now: Big data in health care: There is an important conversation underway among the UC medical centers and medical schools about how they can combine health data…
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