Faculty/Staff Highlights

IT Master Plan provides IT for academic innovation and excellence
- IT Leadership to champion emerging pedagogy
- Peer-led faculty development to optimize the benefits of teaching and learning technologies
- Expanded wireless capacity campus-wide
- Analytics to enhance RPC and academic decisions
- Tools for curriculum support and assessment
- Classrooms designed to support active learning
- Enhanced campus learning management system
- Lecture capture services
- Video streaming solutions for instruction
- IT Sandbox, facilitated by user groups, to explore innovations in teaching and learning
- Incentivized technological experimentation in the classroom, laboratory, field, and community

IT Master Plan delivers efficient user-friendly IT systems
- Automation of labor-intensive administration tasks
- Document management system to route, approve, and search forms electronically
- Coordinated IT services for cross-disciplinary teams
- Adaptable new employee technology orientation
- Education to assist employees in protecting data
- Technologies to reduce IT security threats
- Cutting edge HR and Finance systems
- New options for automated computer backup
- Expedited new employee access to UNLV systems
- Single sign-on employee portals facilitate access to IT systems and the information staff need
- Tools to effectively manage information overload
- Pre-populated constituent groups for shared access and targeted communication

IT Master Plan builds an IT environment that enhances research
- Leveraged IT purchasing power for research tools
- Peer-led activities on research technologies
- Incentivizes technological experimentation and innovation in the laboratory and in the field
- Helps investigators comply with IT security requirements (e.g., HIPAA, DoD, Export Control)
- Mobile device support for investigators in the field
- Research data management plan assistance
- Access to institutional profile data for grant proposals
- Expendable, high-speed research network
- Support for research application developers
- New research administration tools and interfaces

IT Master Plan employs technology to promote campus engagement
- Data analytics and reporting tools to assess diversity
- Web-conferencing tools facilitate mentorship
- New collaboration tools enhance engagement
- Technologies support employees with disabilities
- Shared technology governance
- Federated credentials expedite cross-institutional collaboration
- Applications to engage targeted constituent groups
- Robust Unified Communication services
- Web page development assistance
- Increased awareness of creative design and collaboration tools available at UNLV
- Training on using multimedia and productivity tools for polished, impactful presentations