Bootcamp Underway
dwaldron August 20th, 2007
Prior to the beginning of each academic year, the Office of Information Technology conducts a week-long series of training events for the students who will be working for us during the year. This week of activity is informally known as bootcamp and this year’s edition got underway earlier today. During bootcamp, new student workers are introduced to general IT policies and practices, to IT facilities, and to specific technologies in use on our campus. These technologies include the presentation equipment and control systems in our classrooms, our public printing facilities and systems, our anti-virus and anti-spyware applications, our multimedia creation and editing applications, technologies related to the campus network, and the MacIntosh and Windows operating systems. Bootcamp also provides returning student workers with opportunities to become familiar with relevant changes that have been implemented over the summer. This year, our student workers will be introduced to the Network Access Control (NAC) system newly implemented for our residential spaces. During the final three days of bootcamp, our student workers receive on-the-job training as they provide walk-in assistance to new and returning students at the newly relocated student help desk, and on the fourth floor of Morgan Hall. Bootcamp is organized by our tireless Manager of User Services, Mary Schantz.
We welcome our new student workers and welcome the return of those who have worked with us in the past. We wish each of them a productive academic year.
IT will be seeking additional student employees and will hold a job fair for students who might be interested in working with us. Details will be released shortly.