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Hello everyone-

We are continuing our 2023 Spring Conclave series with a discussion on How to Talk to Faculty Colleagues about Universal Design for Learning.

Here are the details:

• When: Friday, May 26 at 9:00 am (PT), 10:00 am (MT), 11:00 am (CT) and 12:00 pm (ET)
• Where: ZOOM - Melody Buckner's Personal Meeting Room 
• https://arizona.zoom.us/j/8270317365

Here is the Google Doc with ALL the information about the Conclave:
Conclave #26 - May 20

Our guest speaker is a friend and colleague with expertise in this area.

• Thomas J. Tobin is an author, speaker, and consultant on all facets of quality when we use technology in higher education: Universal Design for Learning (UDL), evaluating online teaching, copyright, academic integrity, and non-faculty career paths.

  Here is his website: https://thomasjtobin.com/ .
  
  

Hope you can join us!

Melody Buckner

Please join us May 24th for the monthly Diversity in IT Community Group Meeting.

The agenda and zoom information is available on the community group's blog.

The Educause Diversity in IT Monthly Call occurs from 2pm- 3pm EST (11am-12pm PST) on the fourth Wednesday.

We are excited to announce the return of the Professional Pipeline Student Scholarship for the 2023 EDUCAUSE Annual Conference. This scholarship is designated for students of color and individuals from demographically underrepresented populations considering a career in higher education technology. Nominate a student from your campus by August 1 for this “full ride” scholarship to the Conference!

Nominate a Student Now!

Student Scholarship Benefits

• A complimentary registration to the in-person EDUCAUSE Annual Conference in Chicago, Illinois
• NEW for 2023! Complimentary hotel accommodations for three nights
• NEW for 2023! A flat-rate travel stipend to assist with transportation and incidental expenses associated with attending the conference
• $1,000 will be issued to attendees who travel farther than 100 miles to attend the conference.
• $500 will be issued to attendees who travel fewer than 100 miles to attend the conference.
• A mentor in the higher ed technology field with the opportunity to connect in person at the conference
• A special conference orientation/overview from an EDUCAUSE VIP
• An awardee breakfast or lunch with EDUCAUSE leadership
• NEW for 2023! The opportunity for resume review and personalized career coaching from an experienced professional in the field

CONFERENCE: September 24-25, 2023 - University of Central Florida - Division of Digital Learning - Call for Proposals DUE June 5, 2023. 

We will wrap up the spring academic semester with a discussion on supporting faculty. We will have some special guests to help guide the conversation. 

*Note that not all Coffee Shop Hour sessions are recorded. Please check the CG Files for any special recordings.

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Good afternoon all,

 We want to bring the following survey to your collective attention. The Communications Infrastructure and Applications (CIA) CG is sponsoring this survey to gather institutional financial approaches to paying for and life cycling key telecom equipment and services. The Network Management (netman) and Wireless Local Area Networking (wireless) CGs may also benefit from this data. The CIA CG steering committee and the financial working group will have full access to the data. The aggregate data will be publicly shared with the CIA CG and available for anyone to view.

 

These questions assume you are knowledgeable or have access to obtain answers around the following areas below. Thus you may need to gather information from other areas of your institution for these question topics:

 

Understanding of established annual budgets, and main source of funding; which services you have a charge back model or cost recovery funding model; equipment life cycle information, and any feedback (pro or con) for these models. 

 
The survey is now available now until end of day Monday May 15, 2023 -  CIA - Unified Communications, Networking, and Telecom Billing Practices Survey - May 2023 and should take approximately 8 minutes to complete. 

 

We will review all results at a future monthly virtual meetup.

 

Thank you.

 

--Mark Wehrle, CIA CG Team

Every month, the Small College CG meets on the 4th Wednesday at 3pm ET for an hour.

Please join us! 

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Currently, we are asking vendors not to attend these meets ups. Please contact the CG co-leaders for any questions or comments. 

Sometimes we have an agenda that we will post to discussions, sometimes we do not and it's an open conversation.

We hope you will join us to discuss and share all things DR/BC related. 

Hello everyone! Register for the 2023 edACCESS conference on our web site. Early registration ends April 11th. Hope to see you at The Peddie School in June!

We are making changes to the ITCOMM Coffee Shop and no longer offering them monthly! Instead, they will be quarterly (seasonal) and with more formal topics. Our next Coffee Shop will be in May and on UX. Stay tuned.

Please join us March 22nd for the monthly Diversity in IT Community Group Meeting.

Sowmya Shankar will be presenting DEI positions within central IT units.

The agenda and zoom information is available on the community group's blog.

The Educause Diversity in IT Monthly Call occurs from 2pm- 3pm EST (11am-12pm PST) on the fourth Wednesday.

The next higher-ed devops meetup will be March 2nd from 2PM to 3PM eastern time.  Our meeting will be available on zoom: https://cornell.zoom.us/j/99442464891?pwd=eFdWMWRMTzRjTWJLOENJaVBkcmN6Zz09

Hi Enterprise CRM Community Group! We are scheduling monthly calls on the 3rd Wednesday of the month from 4-5 PM Eastern Time. The first few have been added as events in the Community Group, so look for them under "Upcoming Events" and plan to join! These will be participative, so come ready to discuss and bring your questions and thoughts!

Schedule is below: 

Date	Topic
March 15	Let's talk about the Job Titles and Roles in our CRM organizations. Bring your questions, comments, and job descriptions. We will create an archive of job descriptions!
April 19	Join Horizontal consulting for a discussion about preference centers and how to develop a strategy for personalization, including the concept of "composable architecture" to bring together the best technologies for whatever digital experience you are trying to achieve
May 17	Ball State University's Digital Core trains and conducts UX design. They will talk about their Digital Core group and how it functions
June 21	Change Management approaches - using volunteers from the group as well as an invited expert
July 19	Discourse Analytics will talk about their product that ingests LMS data to develop an archetype
August 16	VACATION
September 20	School Profile - one institution's journey with Salesforce
October 18	EDUCAUSE MEET-UP
November 15	School Profile - one institution's journey with Salesforce
December 20	HOLIDAY BREAK

The next higher-ed devops meetup will be March 2nd from 2PM to 3PM eastern time.  Our meeting will be available on zoom: https://cornell.zoom.us/j/99442464891?pwd=eFdWMWRMTzRjTWJLOENJaVBkcmN6Zz09

Agenda
Michael B. Klein Northwestern University Library
Northwestern University Library’s Repository & Digital Curation workgroup has been developing and running cloud-hosted applications since 2016. Our initial approach was a simple “lift-and-shift” operation, moving our premises-hosted services to virtual machines hosted in Amazon EC2. We quickly migrated to some cloud-native utility services like our relational database and search index. More recently, we have started to take advantage of the scalability offered by cloud-native services such as serverless functions (AWS Lambda), serverless container infrastructure (AWS Fargate), and short-lived, large-scale batch operations.

Now we are taking the next step, translating our bespoke data processing pipeline into a series of state machines using AWS Step Functions and other cloud technologies. At each step, we have had to reevaluate our local development environment, either emulating or mocking the AWS services our applications depend on. To overcome the limitations of this approach, we have created a cloud-based development environment based on a heavily customized AWS Cloud9 environment. This has allowed each developer on our team to access the full range of AWS offerings, generating quick prototypes and iterating quickly on solutions, without the overhead or uncertainty of trying to emulate the entire stack on a laptop or local workstation, but without sacrificing the development tools we’re accustomed to. It has also led to a development platform that can be stood up and torn down quickly for easy onboarding as well as a quick “reset” of one or many existing setups. This presentation will explain our approach, how we got here, and how it’s going, as well as the surprises and challenges we have encountered along the way.

Slack Channel link: https://higher-eddevops.slack.com/join/shared_invite/zt-161fnj59w-GS09Y2wkO4yp5y~GqGJDpQ#/shared-invite/email

Please join us February 22nd for the monthly Diversity in IT Community Group Meeting.

Sowmya Shankar and Tina Pappas will be presenting DEI positions within central IT units.

The agenda and zoom information is available on the community group's blog.

The Educause Diversity in IT Monthly Call occurs from 2pm- 3pm EST (11am-12pm PST) on the fourth Wednesday.

Reminder that we have a new Zoom link for today's ITCOMM Coffee Shop in Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion! Hope to see you there.

Topic: ITCOMM Coffee Shop

Time: Jan 17, 2023 02:00 PM Eastern Time (US and Canada)

        Every month on the Third Tue, until Dec 19, 2023, 12 occurrence(s)

       

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Please join us January 25th for the monthly Diversity in IT Community Group Meeting.

POSTPONED to August 2023 - Sowmya Shankar and Tina Pappas will be presenting an overview on ARiA.

The agenda and zoom information is available on the community group's blog.

The Educause Diversity in IT Monthly Call occurs from 2pm- 3pm EST (11am-12pm PST) on the fourth Wednesday.

Hello Everyone!
I hope you're having a wonderful holiday season.

If you had not already noticed, our group has been renamed and the group description has been updated. "Sharepoint and Microsoft 365" has become "Microsoft Tools in Education". This change reflects an expansion of the focus of this community as well. Thank you to everyone who participated in discussions on this topic. Your input was a valuable guide and provided important insight into how Microsoft tools are being used at different institutions.

The INSTTECH CG co-leaders are excited to invite you to a Virtual Coffee Shop Chat on the 4th Thursday of every month at 3:30 pm EST. More information and a Zoom link can be found in the Community Events tab.

This meeting is for all INSTTECH CG members. If you have new staff that could benefit from the network connections, then we invite you to pass along this invitation to any colleagues.  

Bring your lunch, coffee, tea, and ideas! We look forward to seeing you at our next Coffee Shop Chat.  

Please reach out to the co-chairs if you have any questions or need any accommodations 

Colleagues,

Thank you to those who have responded to our survey about our 2023 CG meetings. As Ellen and I are actively planning for some of the sessions for 2023, our first virtual meet-up will take place on January 20, 2023 at 2pm EST (11am PST).

Subsequently our monthly meetings will take place on the 3rd Friday of the month at 2pm EST (11am PST).  I hope that many of you will be able to join.

Our monthly meeting link is:

Reminder there is no December ITCOMM Coffee Shop! Happy holidays to all and we will see you on January 17th.

Reminder to join us for our monthly Roundtable Coffee Shop on Tuesday, November 15th at 2pm EST/11am PST. This month we will discuss communicating change and strategies for supporting change management processes. 

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Hello Mobile Technologists,

Can you believe that it's SNOWING in Denver today?  

Come to our Annual CG meeting tomorrow 10/28 at 9:45am in meeting room 610/612.  I have prepared a JAM Board with our discussion topics, feel free to add ideas on it:  https://tinyurl.com/ymcese5x

Hello Mobile Minded Colleagues,

We have a OPEN Mobile Tech Community Meeting coming up during the Educause Annual Conference in Denver!  Friday Morning at 9:45am!

Reminder that the ITCOMM community group will have a face to face meeting in Denver during EDUCAUSE. Grab your lunch then pop on over to Meeting Room 610/612 from noon to 1pm on Wednesday, October 26.

Hello XR Community Members.  We are excited to see you October 27^th @ 1:00pm at the EDUCAUSE conference in Denver. Please sign up to share your favorite XR app/game/platform with others.  It can be something you made, borrowed or bought. Bring your friends so they can see what the excitement is all about. Google Doc Sign Up sheet provided. We look forward to meeting you IRL -  Colleen & Randy. 

Please join us September 28th for the monthly DIT Community Group Meeting.

The Educause Diversity in IT Monthly Call occurs from 2pm- 3pm EST (11am-12pm PST) on the fourth Wednesday.

Please see the September 2022 Blog for agenda and connection info.

Reminder to join us for our monthly Roundtable Coffee Shop on Tuesday, September 20th at 2pm EDT/11am PDT. This month, Rowena Espinosa, Director of IT Communications at McGill University with discuss strategic planning efforts and aligning comm plans.

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It is that time of year again!  We are soliciting INTEREST and BOOK IDEAS for the upcoming Itana Book Club.

 

For those unfamiliar with the Itana Book Club, we select a book and have 2 or 3 calls over a period of a few months to discuss as we read it.  We then report what we learned during a Friday Itana call session.  It is open to anyone interested in Itana and is an easy, low commitment, fun way to interact with your Itana colleagues.  You are welcome and encouraged to join even if you can’t commit to fully reading the selected book or join the discussions.

 

This will be our 8th book and we need your assistance to pick one for this session.  Visit the Book Club Itana Page to see what we’ve read to date.

 

Please sign up using this Google doc or contact me directly at Jonathan.DuChateau@wisc.edu if you are interested in joining the book club, have a book to suggest, or if you are interested in helping to facilitate this year’s Itana Book Club.

 

We are excited to announce a new volunteer opportunity! Apply to be an inaugural "Conference Connector" for the EDUCAUSE Annual Conference.

An EDUCAUSE Conference Connector is a member who demonstrates extraordinary enthusiasm for the Annual Conference and is willing to dedicate time to help first-timers at this year's conference feel welcome and engaged.

To apply for the Conference Connector role, apply here by September 30, 2022. For more information, email volunteer@educause.edu.

Our community group has an in-person meet-up planned during the Educause Annual conference in Denver.  Thursday, October 27,  1:00PM–1:45PM MT.  Colleen and I hope to see many of your there.  Even if you can't make it to Denver please encourage others from your organization to stop by.  

We will have a fairly informal format.  Certainly feel free to bring anything you'd like to share.  In advance if you have suggestions let us know.  

There will not be a remote participation option.  But if there is broad interest we'd be happy to host a virtual get together after the conference.  Please just post your thoughts on format (i.e. Altspace or Virbella) and timing.  

https://events.educause.edu/annual-conference/2022/agenda/extended-reality-xr-community-group-cg-meetup-open-to-all

We want to hear from you! Take the IT Strategy and Planning Survey

The Zoom link for the monthly meeting has changed. Please visit the Library to download the new calendar file.

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The Zoom link for the monthly GRC meeting has changed. Please visit the library entry for the new calendar file.

Please join us August 24th for the monthly DIT Community Group Meeting where we will have a special presentation from the Accessibility Community Group.

The Educause Diversity in IT Monthly Call occurs from 2pm- 3pm EST (11am-12pm PST) on the fourth Wednesday.

Please see the August 2022 Blog for agenda and connection info.

Reminder to join us for our monthly Roundtable Coffee Shop! Tuesday, July 19th from 2pm EDT to 3pm EDT (11AM -12PM PDT).

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Itana is launching the premier New to Enterprise Architecture (New2EA) Program in higher education. It is intended for new architects or architects new to higher education.  This is a call for interest, not a commitment to participate.

Interested in learning more as we get closer?  Please complete the poll below:

New2EA 2022-2023 Program: Cohort Interest Poll

Know someone who might be interested? Please forward this message to them!

We’re planning a 9-month long, no-cost, cohort-based program consisting of multiple half-day sessions and mentoring triads. Work between sessions will provide more in-depth learning and enhance learning in the interactive sessions. The sessions will be led by seasoned leaders from several universities and colleges who bring a breadth of experience and perspective.  You will also have an assigned leader coach and mentor to help you on your learning journey.

Learning Outcomes we expect you to gain:

1. What is architecture and what is Architectural Thinking?
2. Understanding the Context of your architecture practice
3. Leadership Skills and competencies for Architects
4. Soft Skills needed by Architects
5. Communication Skills used by Architects
6. Methods and Tools that are often used by Architects
7. Case Studies of success and failure
8. AND MORE!

We hope that you will join us in the New2EA 2022-2023 Program.

Itana Steering Committee and the New2EA Planning Team.

Itana is a professional group for Enterprise, Business and Technical Architects in higher education.  Itana is co-supported by EDUCAUSE and Internet2.  To learn more, go to https://itana.org

Please join us June 22nd for the monthly DIT Community Group Meeting

The Educause Diversity in IT Monthly Call occurs from 2pm to 3pm EST on the fourth Wednesday

Please see the June 2022 Blog for agenda and connection info.

Meeting times are 3pm Eastern/Noon Pacific
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