The administration commitment to information technology has significantly increased in the last year. Here are the priority areas. IT Personnel IT is in the process of hiring about 50 new IT personnel, about half of the new personnel will be allocated to the colleges as consultants. The college consultant allocations will start in NSM and Engineering, and then, on a lessor scale, move to Social Science, Technology, Law, and Hotel and Restaurant Management. Hiring of consultants began in the Fall of 1999 and will continue through the year.
Personnel is a top IT priority.
The network is considered the backbone of campus computing. The current network is obsolete and overstressed. The network upgrade has been given priority over a new building. The goal is too increase overall network capacity, enhance security, and make available new high bandwidth communications for those who require network intensive computing. The network upgrade is a top IT priority.