Information Technology Milestones

April

The first steps of the IT Governance initiative are underway.  This initiative will allow IT to better manage projects in IT.  This governance process will pave the way for IT projects to be prioritized by the appropriate stakeholders. 

Nadine Stern was featured in an Educause podcast entitled The New World of Cloud Computing and Vendor Relations

March

Enterprise Applications begins implementing People Soft/Oracle First Feature Pack called Affiliations. TCNJ will be one of the first schools to implement this functionality.  It will allow the campus to better track a student as he or she transitions from Applicant to Student to Alumni. We will gain better reporting and better data transfer to Third party systems.

Joined NJTrust (federation for NJEDge/NJVid using Shibboleth)

IPv6 enabled at Internet router

February

PeopleSoft User Group conference held in San Antonio Texas.  TCNJ staff from Enterprise Applications and Enrollment Services attended and did six presentations. See http://www.tcnj.edu/~it/educause2009.htm for details about the presentations.

NAC (Network Access Control) extended to wireless users

Migrated Judicial Officer from Oracle DB to MS SQL DB

January

Nadine Stern served on a panel to discuss "CIOs and Enterprise IT: Tackling the Tough Issues" at the Educause Mid-Atlantic Regional Conference held in Baltimore, MD.  This special Enterprise and Information Technology event is designed to foster collaboration and the exchange of ideas among CIOs and senior Enterprise IT leaders in the mid-Atlantic region.  See http://www.tcnj.edu/~it/educause2009.htm for details about the presentations.

Pat Pasinski, the Assistant to the Vice President for Information Technology and Enrollment Services, presented "Examples of a Mid Size College's Experience with SaaS - Working in the Cloud" at the Educause Mid-Atlantic Regional Conference in Baltimore, MD.  See http://www.tcnj.edu/~it/educause2009.htm for details about the presentations.

IT and ES hosts Montclair State University on our campus. Members from Enterprise Applications, Enrollment Services and Networking and Technical Services held a series of presentations about how our PeopleSoft Student Implementation went. We then held a “Birds of a Feather” luncheon where teams from both institutions collaborated and spoke about the implementation that MSU is about to embark on!

Wireless in Phelps and Hausdoerffer Halls

New timesheet process (mainframe-less)

Virtual Desktop Initiative (VDI) begins pilot

November

Nadine Stern, the Vice President for Information Technology and Enrollment Services, presented "Examples of a Mid Size College's Experience with SaaS - Working in the Cloud" at the annual Educause conference in Denver, CO. 

Nadine Stern, the Vice President for Information Technology and Enrollment Services, and Nicole Parkman, Interim Director for Enterprise Applications, presented "On Time, On-Budget, and Beyond: Successful ERP Implementation and Budgeting Models" at the annual Educause conference in Denver, CO.

Nadine Stern, VP for IT & ES, wrote "Privacy and Accountability - Holding Service Providers Accountable", an Educause - Center for Applied Research Bulletin - Volume 2009, Issue 22

October

New Campus SSL VPN (TCNJVPN)

New Remark test processing software

September

First Peoplesoft Applications (Financials) on Red Hat Linux

August

Packetshaper, Firewalls, SSLVPN Upgrade

IDM go-live

Network Access Control (NAC) in Resnet

Upgrade Internet Bandwidth (200Mbps)

Sophos Anti-virus implemented

July

Discussion List conversion to Mailman

Upgrade CS faculty and lab Linux workstations

New media classrooms added in Bliss 28 and Armstrong 154 bringing campus total to 135

Video displays and sound systems installed in Eickhoff and T/W dining facilities

3rd party application data conversion from SIS to PAWS

May

Offsite/emergency web server tested

March

Additional functionality available in PAWS to view your enrollment appointment, view advising and financial holds for Fall 2009, run your academic advising report, view your transfer credit and view your test credit

First Peoplesoft servers (Financials) running on Linux

New Housing system - StarRez - aka MyHousing Management goes live

February

SIS Enrollment History is taken from SIS/TESS and converted into the new PAWS system.

PAWS Self Service Opens to Students to view and update personal information, view the course catalog, view your advisor’s information online, view financial aid “to do’s” and view course history with your enrollment and grades

January

Additional wireless locations in Armstrong, Holman and Science Complex

January

new media rooms added in Packer 242 and 245, Kendall 134 and 136

Forcina 103 computer lab redesigned with new media equipment and computers funded through a state grant

December

Zimbra calendaring option enabled for all students

November

In collaboration with Public Affairs and NJEdge.net, Information Technology implemented text messaging alerts for Emergency Notifications to augment our current notification plan.  Brad Coburn and Betty DeMatto from IT were instrumental in the RFP and implementation process.  For more information or to sign up for emergency text alerts, visit Critical Incidents at TCNJ.

Ryan Gladysiewicz, User Support Services Manager with Information Technology, recently presented at the Fourth Annual NJEDge Technology in Education Conference in Plainsboro.  His presentation topic was “Deploying a Productivity Suite and Operating System Campus Wide at The College of New Jersey”.   For more information about NJEDge and the services offered, visit www.njedge.net.

John Kuiphoff and Matthew Winkel from Enterprise Applications presented the "Lightweight Campus Portal" at HighEdWebDev in Rochester, NY , a national conference for higher education web development.

October

All academic buildings have wireless "hotspots". Some buildings have full coverage.  For more informaiton about wireless at TCNJ, go to Wireless@TCNJ.

September

Migrate from webmail and meeting maker to Zimbra Collaboration Suite

Nadine Stern, VP for Information Technology & Enrollment Services attended the Information Technology Governance Summit held in Denver, CO.  For more information about the summit, visit http://www.educause.edu/InformationTechnologyGovernanceSummit/13753

August

New media classroom added in the Science Complex (SCP319)

New media conference room added in Green Hall, room 1

Remote Assist for desktop workstation support implemented

July

Information Technology call tracking system upgraded from Magic upgraded to Service Desk Express, version 9

Campus Wide software upgrade to Windows XP and Office 2007 for all faculty, staff and lab workstations

October

The Admissions module for the new Student Administration System is fully operational.  Students can now apply for admission, check the status of their application materials, and accept/decline admissions online.

Nadine Stern, Vice President for Information Technology and Enrollment Services was interviewed by Higher Ed Tech magazine for an article concerning the budget cuts facing IT departments on college campuses.

ITS releases its first version of the SOCS "Smart Cache" server.  This service dramatically speeds up user access to heavily used modules in SOCS such as Grading, Dropbox and Assessments.

September

The Course Catalog, Schedule of Classes and Instructor Workload functionality for the new Student Administration System was moved into production.  The Fall 2007 schedule is currently being built in the new system.

August

ITS releases a number of new features into SOCS such as letter grade support for the Grading module, "sign-up" events for office hour and presentation scheduling and the ability to share assessments between faculty members.

June

Implement new tool to import and export computer inventory into Magic, the IT call tracking system.

Matthew Winkel, webmaster, interviewed by University Business magazine for an article concerning the use of RSS feeds on campus. To view the article, go to http://www2.universitybusiness.com/viewarticle.aspx?articleid=44

May

DNA implemented for new workstation deployment.  Allows IT to transfer your desktop and other settings to your new or re-imaged machine.

ITS hosts the 7th Annual Instructional Technology Workshop for faculty

April

Admissions Recruiting. the first piece of the new Student Administration system, implemented.

ITS releases its 'Syndication' module into SOCS.  The module allows instructors to incorporate dynamic content such as RSS feeds and Podcasts directly into their classes.  It also allows instructors to construct their own feeds and podcasts to be used in their classes or anywhere else in the world.

February

Enabled Real-time block lists (RBL) to pre-filter SPAM emails

ITS releases its 'Plagiarism Prevention' module into SOCS for students and faculty

January

Kendall Hall 233 media room implemented

Installed SSLVPN

Upgraded Travers and Wolfe network equipment

New Enterprise Backup system implemented

December

iSCSI SAN implementation started

Posted Academic Computing Plan Initiatives

November

Completed campus-wide re-carding project eliminating the use of social security number as an individual's identification number. Over 7,000 students, faculty and staff received new cards.

September

CS Faculty Suns upgraded to mix of SunBlade 1500 and W1100z

Installed Redhat Satellite server

Sun server "titanic" decommissioned

Hitachi SAN array decommissioned

RES.net restructures support and adds new services, including a student run help desk for students

August

Instructional Technology Services (ITS) moves from Forcina to the New Library, room 002.

New Library computer equipment move and installation

Bliss 228/229 media rooms implemented

Upgraded Internet connection from 15Mbps to 35Mbps

State-of-the-art network brought on-line at the new Library

Suns in Holman 370 lab upgraded to SunBlade 1500 running Solaris 9

Suns in Holman 117 lab upgraded with Sun W1100z running RedHat Linux

Completed Summer 2005 upgrade.  Fourteen pc labs upgraded; one macintosh lab upgraded

July

Scholar Laptop Program starts

IT Call Tracking system "Magic" Upgraded

May

Installed new telecommunications trunk lines to  support local and long distance telephone needs

Installed caller ID software on our telephone switch

Sixth Annual Instructional Technology Workshop

April

Webmail Upgrade

Minimum email quota increase from 75MB to 200MB

March

Packeteer Packetshaper Upgrade

PatchLink implemented

February

Student Center Goes Wireless

Resnet Internet Bandwidth Survey #2

Mcafee at Home-use program implemented for faculty and staff

Virus outbreak contained - over 300 infected machines cleaned.

January

New media rooms - Holman 317 and Loser 106

New computer lab - Holman 439