FAST FIVE for week of June 24, 2012

Preferred email addresses: St. Mary's University IT team won the Atlantic region CAUBO quality and productivity award for its preferred email project. The university was recognized for changing its systems to enable students to simply provide their preferred email address to the university for communication purposes instead of an email address provided by the University. The change was a success with students, faculty, and staff because it improved the speed of communications. See page 11 of the attached link: CAUBO Productivity Awards

Cloud printing: McGill University's IT team also won a CAUBO productivity award for its cloud printing solution called uPrint. This new system enables students and staff to issue print requests from anywhere (on and off campus). The jobs are queued in the cloud and are released by waving a McGill ID card near an RF reader on any networked campus printer. See page 7 of the attached link: CAUBO Productivity Awards

Faculty collective agreement system: Concordia was also a winner at this year's CAUBO awards with its Faculty Resource Information System. This system simplifies the meeting of collective agreement requirements, automates per-course hiring processes, reduces manual data entry, and reports on academic resource allocations. See page 10 of the attached link: CAUBO Productivity Awards

Ralph Michaelis leaves Carleton: Ralph Michaelis, the CIO at Carleton University for the past 10 years, has left to become CIO at Canadian Blood Services. Denis Levesque has been named the acting CIO at the university.

Vancouver Community College: Ben Guanzon has left Vancouver Community College and the college is now looking for new IT leader. The posting is available at: VCC Director of IT