by Dawn Brown | Jul 14, 2009 | IT News
Craig A. Fowler (pictured), an information technology executive with more than 20 years of private-sector experience with several Fortune 500 companies, is Western Carolina University’s next chief information officer. A resident of Hickory, Fowler will succeed Wilson...
by Dawn Brown | Apr 30, 2009 | IT News
By Newton Smith, Associate CIO; Stan Hammer, Assistant CIO; and Al Sanders, IT Project Coordinator. Identity management will take the spotlight as a major IT goal in 2009-10 due to its importance to campus communication, effective business practices, information...
by Dawn Brown | Apr 30, 2009 | IT News
By Newton Smith, Associate CIO One of the major IT projects of the 2009-10 academic year is the development of an online entry point, a “front door,” to IT services. The new front door will launch this summer at DoIT.wcu.edu, a destination with a name that plays on...
by Dawn Brown | Apr 30, 2009 | IT News
By Newton Smith, Associate CIO, and Shandon Bates, Director of Systems and Operations Carol Burton During the fall 2008 semester, Western piloted the Education Briefcase (eBriefcase), a component of the WCU Quality Enhancement Plan (QEP), with the help of consultant...
by Dawn Brown | Apr 30, 2009 | IT News
By Al Sanders, IT Project Coordinator The Division of IT (DoIT) currently has about 80 projects under way. While all of these will have a positive impact on some portion of WCU’s activities, the following 10 projects will be most visible to the campus. 1. Identity...
