Staff News

New identity system updates employee status much faster in university database, provides platform for future provisioning improvements

The Disability Resource Center is highly committed to ensuring access is achieved to all students, employees, and visitors. Although a valued and highly utilized resource for the university, the DRC is regularly tapped for external partnerships and educational opportunities to collaborate and share accessibility best practices to help the community become a more accessible space.

Starting Thursday, June 13, the University will implement Mimecast, a new email spam filter to enhance protection against viruses and malware while reducing unwanted emails received by students and employees.

Zoom AI is now available for all users on the University of Arizona enterprise Zoom account (arizona.zoom.us), offering new AI generative capabilities to enhance collaboration and productivity.

Thursday is Global Accessibility Awareness Day (GAAD), a day dedicated to raising awareness and getting people talking, thinking, and learning about digital access that provides equal information and opportunity to disabled people and diverse learners. GAAD is an important day and is a great opportunity to learn about how The University of Arizona creates a digitally inclusive atmosphere for all.

8,000 students will be celebrating commencement next week. Among them are one father and daughter duo we decided to spotlight during this exciting time of year.

Wendy Epley, Principal Analyst with the Information Security Office-Governance, Risk, and Compliance (ISO-GRC) team attended a social event in Washington, D.C. sponsored by the International Sanctions and Export Control Society (IS&ECS).

Today’s libraries at the University of Arizona are not what we might remember as recently as five years ago. The University of Arizona Libraries (UAL) are defined by their digital systems and collections, especially as an R1 academic research library system that has had explosive growth of digital services since the inception of the Student Success District.

Now more than ever, there is a great importance for all employees to take a break from time to time and get to know people, not only for their skills and contributions to the University but get to know the person behind the work.

Were you one of the 500,000 social media users across the United States that was impacted by the social media outage from earlier this month? Meta encountered issues locking many people out of their accounts, with several users still encountering those issues today.