Consolidation of DoIT Providing Quality IT Service Always! President Banks has released The Path Forward, which calls for organizational restructuring of departments and colleges based on what the MGT report recommended. In the path forward, a centralized structure is recommended for IT services to increase communication, accountability, and [...]
Last year Freshman Leadership Organizations (FLOs) were excited to set a new record. Despite the need to figure out how to connect freshmen who felt disconnected in a largely virtual world, the number of applications submitted was up 4.6% over the previous year. Little did they know that record would be obliterated this year with [...]
When cadets first arrived on campus in October 1876, the intake process was simple. They registered as students on their first class day. All students were required to participate in the Corps of Cadets. The day the doors first opened at the A&M College of Texas, only six students registered, so the start of classes [...]
You wish you could go home at five o’clock each day, but students expect to have access to your services 24/7. Increasingly, student services have been moved online so our computers can support the services while you take a break. We host more than 70 customer-facing custom and vendor-supported applications on our servers. Staff and [...]
Are You an E-Commerce Merchant at Texas A&M? TouchNet is Transitioning to FlyWire Here's What You Need to Know The Transition from TouchNet to Flywire will begin in the Fall of 2021. All new Payments must be off TouchNet by the end of 2021. Access to TouchNet [...]
Try to “crack the code” on this problem: You have one month to find a way to safely welcome 27,000 people to campus, but no vendor has a solution that can be delivered in time. That was the problem confronting New Student & Family Programs (NSFP), an office in the Offices of the Dean of [...]
Completing Setup for Special Purpose Mailboxes If you are here, then you've recently received an email with instructions regarding a Special Purpose Mailbox or SPM. This SPM has already been created, and just needs a few things done to be fully functional. The email you received, should have included several steps to [...]
This spring the Texas A&M Maritime Academy (TAMMA) launched a new tool to get cadet information in shipshape order. TAMMA at Texas A&M’s Galveston campus is one of only six maritime academies in the United States, producing officers for the Merchant Marines and seagoing military services. Some of the tools to manage this elite program [...]
They have been the 12th Man, but now they are leaving. Others are already stepping up to stand ready in their place. This month we celebrate our eight student employees who are graduating. We wish we could keep them all, but alas! In a few months, Texas A&M will celebrate the 100th anniversary of [...]
The Department of Information Technology will be hosting an Introduction to Wordpress session for Division of Student Affairs staff and student workers. During the Introduction to WordPress session, you will be introduced to the WordPress toolbars, where to create/edit pages and posts, using tags and categories, utilizing comments, managing media (images and documents), and customizing [...]