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Northern Arizona University faculty and staff were invited to celebrate the holiday season with NAU President Rita Cheng and Tom Cheng at the annual President’s Holiday Reception from 3-5 p.m. Dec. 4 at the High Country Conference Center. Guests were encouraged to participate in the Mountain of giving event. Guests were encouraged to bring unwrapped gifts and non-perishable food items. This year, donations benefit the Northern Arizona Police Officers Toy Drive, Senior Companion Program, Northland Family Help Center, Louie’s Cupboard and Flagstaff… Read more

NAU ITS is partnering with Human Resources for Technology Employee Development Day on January 8, 2020. The event will take place in the Health and Learning Center (HLC) on the 4^th floor from 10:00AM-5:00PM. There will be a variety of informational sessions presented by folks from ITS, NAU Communications, Marketing and Microsoft! This is a great opportunity for faculty and staff to learn more about technology at NAU.

Some key topics NAU ITS have lined up are:

• WordPress Tables and Forms
• Siteimprove
• Marketing… Read more

President Cheng helped us celebrate a very success Campus Solutions 9.2 upgrade and recognize the efforts and teamwork of many contributors to the project. ERP systems are complex machines of logic and business rules that require deep technical and business expertise to establish and operate.  With hundreds of integrations and co-dependent systems, much can go awry when upgrading such complex systems.  However, due to the professionalism and expertise of many teams and subject matter experts we avoided the disruption most always associated with these type of complex… Read more

Last month, two of our ITS staff, Erin Plese and Jonathan Wince from our Security team, were featured in NAU Social’s podcast, LumberChats. Plese and Wince discussed how NAU students, faculty and staff can be safe online. Want to listen? Tune in here.

The purpose of cybersecurity is to prevent cyber attacks, data breaches, identity theft and can also help aid… Read more

Dr. Steven Burrell, CIO and Vice President of Information Technology at NAU has named PJ Way to the Director of Infrastructure Services position.Thank you to the hiring committee who provided thoughtful consideration and guidance based on an abundance of feedback from ITS and stakeholders.  Their support was essential to this difficult decision. 

Dr. Burrell would also like to recognize the excellent contributions of Brett West as interim Director.  During Brett’s time in this role we’ve made significant progress to enhance NAU’s… Read more

Efficiency is key in any work environment, and Northern Arizona University ITS has created a new faculty and staff meal plan application that will expedite the application and processing of meal plan requests for full-time, benefit-eligible employees.

Thanks to the collaboration of Davis Wendt, student employee on the Business Process and Service Management Team in ITS, and Casey Fisher, director of strategic planning and marketing for Sodexo, there is now an automated solution that makes the process of requesting a meal plan easier… Read more