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Track 3A Plan for IT Disaster Avoidance, Mitigation, and RecoveryThursday, February 26, 2004 Charlotte Lenox, IT Business Manager, Baylor University Following the events of September 11, 2001, Baylor recognized the need to update and vastly improve its IT disaster plan. This presentation will discuss Baylor's rewriting of the plan, the resources involved, the structure of the final documents, and the processes for continual update. Building and Servicing Change: The Role of Change Management in Texas Woman's University's Oracle ERP ImplementationThursday, February 26, 2004 Patricia J. Edwards, Associate VP for Instructional Support Services, Texas Woman's University Kim Grover-Haskin, Director, Instructional Operations, Texas Woman's University Although the strategies and tools used in a change management process are essential, during Texas Woman's University's Oracle ERP implementation, broader ramifications of change management emerged for the end-user community. Ultimately, change management became an important concept and theoretical approach for new and continuing technology developments at Texas Woman's University. Cost-Effective Monitoring of Classroom Technology at UNTWednesday, February 25, 2004 Maurice Leatherbury, Acting VP for Information Technology & Chief Information Officer, University of North Texas The University of North Texas has equipped its 178 general purpose classrooms with a standard configuration of classroom equipment. A locally developed system (demonstrated during the presentation) monitors the status of the equipment in real time, providing fast response to problems as well as increasing equipment security. Dealing with the Dark Side: Managing the Malware MenaceWednesday, February 25, 2004 Jenifer Jarriel, VP for Information Technology & CIO, Baylor College of Medicine An increasing number of worms, viruses, hoaxes, and spam continue to bombard university and other organization networks, resulting in billion dollar productivity loss. In response, Baylor College of Medicine's IT department developed a comprehensive program involving people, processes, policies/procedures, and technology. The program accommodates the decentralized nature of a university by leveraging department and enterprise IT resources and has diminished the frequency and impact of malware on the college's IT infrastructure. Deploying a Portal Solution: An IT and Academic Unit PerspectiveThursday, February 26, 2004 Harry Koehnemann, Associate Professor, Arizona State University This talk presents both an IT and academic view of portal deployment. It discusses the decisions and lessons learned from deploying a portal system and the results of an academic unit to create custom channels within that deployment. Open Source Collaboration in a Multicampus EnvironmentFriday, February 27, 2004 Jameson Watkins, Director, Internet Development, The University of Kansas Medical Center Using the open source uPortal framework, the University of Kansas and the University of Kansas Medical Center have developed distinct, independent portals while using a combination of shared back-end systems. This session will describe the collaboration between the two campuses, including project management, code, and consulting. PalmPilot 2003 at UTDThursday, February 26, 2004 Daniel C. Calhoun, Technical Support Manager, University of Texas at Dallas Douglas C. Jackson, Associate Vice President, Academic Computing Resources, California State University, Sacramento The handwriting is on the wall—mobile computing is coming to every university campus. During the fall of 2003, UT Dallas conducted a pilot project to determine how students would use PDAs. Customized software, distribution of free PDAs, and other efforts were employed to identify the potential impact of these new technologies on the current technology infrastructure. This presentation looks at the pilot project goals and participant responses and attempts to understand what these results mean for the near future. PKI: A Technology Whose Time Has Come in Higher EducationThursday, February 26, 2004 Mark Franklin, Director of Computing Services, Dartmouth College Public key infrastructure (PKI) technology addresses many of higher education's increasingly urgent needs for cyber security. This session presents a vision for PKI that enables strong and universal digital authentication, signing, and encryption applications in higher education and describes Dartmouth's production deployment as a practical example of PKI at work. Scholarly Communication in a Digital World: The Role of an Institutional RepositoryFriday, February 27, 2004 Richard Fyffe, Librarian of the College, Grinnell College Beth Forrest Warner, Officer for Grants, Research Support, and Library Assessment (Libraries), University of Kansas The institutional repository (IR)—a digital collection that organizes, preserves, and makes accessible the intellectual output of a single institution—is emerging at universities as one response to the new scholarly communications environment. Background on IR concepts, policy issues, and selected systems will be presented together with an overview of the IR implementation process underway at the University of Kansas. UT System-Wide IT Security AssessmentWednesday, February 25, 2004 Clair W. Goldsmith, Senior Advisor for Information Technology, University of Texas System Lewis Watkins, Chief Information Security Officer, University of Texas System The University of Texas System Office asked its 15 academic and health institutions to self-evaluate IT security, both centrally and across campus, to identify systemic barriers to IT security. The presentation will cover the findings of the study and the difficulties doing such a study. |
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