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In the News ...

Fall 2009

Memorandum of Understanding for [UNIT] IT Support

Fall 2009 IT NOW CIO Newsletter

IT News Channel Launched: Read postings from the CIO about current issues & projects and send feedback to the CIO.

UB2020 IT Reorganization Plan - PPT from August Town Hall Meeting

UB's Strategic Plan for IT 2009-2012

UB on iTunes U: Learn anytime, anywhere

Information Security: Everyone's Responsibility - Learn how to protect personal and sensitive data

Think Green:
Hold your next meeting via web or video conferencing

Power Down for the Planet
25 facts you should know about Green IT
Take the Green IT Pop Quiz

Phishing Emails: Spammers send out millions of phishing emails trying to trick people into sending them their passwords, bank card account numbers, and other personal info. UB and other reputable organizations will never ask for your password or other personal info via email or over the phone.

Learn how to recognize phishing scams by playing CMU's Anti-Phishing Phil

Educause/Cornell Institute for Computer Policy and Law Sessions Archived for On-demand Viewing (July 2009)

Cloud Computing: Lost in the Cloud- Privacy and Other Issues of Cloud Computing, Jonathan Zittrain, The NY Times

The Evidence on Online Education US Department of Education Study of Online Learning

Thinking of using Classroom Response Systems/Clickers in your teaching? Clickers are available on a loaner basis as well as in many tech classrooms
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Affiliations

  • ACUTA (The Association for Communications Technology Professionals in Higher Education): To support higher education institutions in achieving optimal use of communications technologies.
  • ACM (Association for Computing Machinery): An international scientific and educational organization dedicated to advancing the arts, sciences, and applications of information technology.
  • AMA (American Management Association): A global not-for-profit, membership-based association that provides a full range of management development and educational services to individuals, companies and government agencies worldwide.
  • ECAR (EDUCAUSE Center for Applied Research): ECAR provides timely research and analysis to help higher education leaders make informed information technology decisions.
  • EDUCAUSE: A nonprofit association whose mission is to advance higher education by promoting the intelligent use of information technology.
  • EDUCAUSE Learning Initiative (Formerly known as the National Learning Infrastructure Initiative): A community of higher education institutions and organizations committed to advancing learning through IT innovation.
  • GARTNER: The world's leading provider of research and analysis about the global information technology industry.
  • ICIA (InfoCom International): An industry-wide non-profit trade association that provides education, exhibitions and information services to its worldwide membership and the audiovisual communications industry.
  • IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc): A non-profit, technical professional association of more than 365,000 individual members in approximately 150 countries.
  • InCommon Federation: The mission of InCommon is to create and support a common framework for trustworthy shared management of access to on-line resources in support of education and research in the U.S.
  • Internet2: Led by more than 200 U.S. universities and working with industry and government, develops and deploys advanced network applications and technologies for research and higher education.
  • NYSERNet: A partnership of NY State's research, educational, medical and cultural institutions to provide networking for New York's future.
  • SANS (SysAdmin, Audit, Network, Security): The SANS Institute develops, maintains, and makes available at no cost, the largest collection of research documents about various aspects of information security.
  • Windows in Higher Education: To enable Higher Education technical discussion about Windows issues and to give Microsoft representatives a forum to hear what the HiEd community wants.