DeKALB | NIU subscribed to an extended maintenance program for its information technology equipment rather than replacing the out-of-date systems, potentially causing the IT department to increase its debt.NIU was unable to spend the money required to...
A revised policy on appropriate use of the NIU Network will be submitted to the president’s cabinet for final review in January.The Division of Information Technology has been working for more than a year to revise the Appropriate Use policy, formerly...
Chief Information Officer Brett Coryell and Drew Bjerken, chief information security officer, requested feedback about a new Acceptable Use Policy for the NIU network at a Wednesday Faculty Senate meeting.A firewall, which was added at NIU to prevent...
Students, faculty and staff may see less printers next year as NIU plans to cut down on the amount of material printed to save costs.Departments will have the option to consolidate all of their personal printers into fewer print devices, Chief Information...
Sophomore sociology major Laura Commings uses a printer Wednesday in Founders Memorial Library. Students will have their $7-per-semester printing subsidy, which was set to end this spring, extended for one year.
The printing subsidy, which allocates $7 to students every semester, should not be taken away after the next academic year.Students will be allocated the printing subsidy for one more academic year, said Chief Information Officer Brett Coryell. Students...
Professors should start using Blackboard for all assignments since the printing subsidy will disappear after next academic year.Students are currently given $7 for printing each semester and will be allocated this for one more academic year. The decision...
I have been at NIU for almost five years and have grown to love the NIU campus, students/staff and its community. I have always tried to do my best in my classes and treat others with the respect we all deserve. There are times when I can cheat, take...
Students need to stand behind the Student Association as it fights to keep the $7 printing quota.On-campus printing is set to switch from a quota system to a pay-as-you-go system where students deposit money onto their OneCards. Students are allocated...
The Student Association Senate wants to revamp campus printing by using a prepaid plan as NIU prepares to cut all free printing.The printing plan is one of three major targets of the SA Senate as Speaker Dillon Domke said senators will survey students...
Chief Information Officer Brett Coryell asked Student Association senators if they would like to render an opinion about changes to the student printing quota at SA Senate’s meeting Sunday.Coryell said a decision was made a few years ago to centralize...
Pass: Campus Wi-Fi trying to go to cityThe university is taking steps to expand its Wi-Fi.Areas around Huskie Stadium and downtown DeKalb may get Wi-Fi if CIO Brett Coryell’s ideas come to fruition.If NIU doesn’t extend its Internet, DeKalb could...
