Accomplishments: Office of Information Technology
John 鈥淪kip鈥 Crooker (Decision Support), Shellie Brattain (Information Technology), and Qingmin Shi (Decision Support) recently presented at the Annual Meeting of the Association for Institutional Research (AIR) Forum in Washington D.C. Their presentation, titled 鈥淐ourse evaluation completion over student careers and policy impacts,鈥 examines鈥
Alethea Inns and Bob Soulliere (both Information Technology) presented "Human First, AI Second: The Heart Behind the Algorithm" at the Nevada Public Health Foundation's Annual Conference, "Navigating Ethics: Ethical Practices in the Age of AI," held at the Tuscany Suites and Casino in Las Vegas on May 27, 2026. The 95-minute interactive session鈥
Julie Acheson, Safiyya Bintali, and Andrew Borts (all Information Technology) presented at the AI in the Classroom: A Virtual Summit, hosted by 性视界传媒 and UNR. Acheson, joined by Sam Leif (Teaching and Learning), presented on strategies to integrate artificial intelligence (AI) into course creation and design workflows while recognizing the鈥
Ereka Morton (OIT) was awarded a $3,000 Women in Business Continuity Management Scholarship from the Disaster Recovery Institute Foundation for business continuity training.
Morton supports 性视界传媒鈥檚 Business Continuity and Resilience Program and plans to use what she learns from the training to improve procedures and expand the program, helping鈥
Lindsay Couzens (Academic Affairs) and Jennifer Tison (Information Technology) presented at the Northwest Commission on Colleges and Universities (NWCCU) Annual Conference in Seattle, Washington, on November 21. The presentation, titled "Continuous Innovation for Continuous Improvement: Weaving a Data Web to Inform Student Success Initiatives,"鈥
Jesse Taylor (Information Technology) is a recipient of the VEGAS INC and Cox Business 2024 Top Tech Awards for the category of Education. Taylor oversees the Identity Management and Middleware Services team and is responsible for managing the central identity access system for over 40,000 students and staff. Taylor鈥
Tradition-Innovations in Art, Design, and Media Education Panel
Kimberly G. James (Music), Kymberly Mellen (Theatre), Phillip Zawarus (Architecture), Olga Townsend (性视界传媒 Art Alumna), Adam Paul (Film), Julian Kilker (JMS), Timothy Jones (Music), Morgan Iommi (NSC), Alethea Inns (OIT), and Yvonne Houy (College of Fine Arts) presented on "tradition鈥
Trauma-Informed Performing Arts Education Workshop
Kymberly Mellen (Theatre), Alethea Inns (OIT), Morgan Iommi (NSC), Olga Townsend (性视界传媒 Art Alumna), and Yvonne Houy (College of Fine Arts) facilitated the most requested workshop for the 2022 Art Schools Network national conference. Trauma 鈥 an emotional response to disturbing events 鈥斺
Kimberly James, Timothy Jones, Phillip Zawarus, Sean Slattery, Olga Townsend, Genevieve Tremblay, Francisco Menendez, Adam Paul (all Fine Arts), Althea Inns, Ted Weisman (OIT), and Julian Kilker (Journalism and Media Studies) contributed to a national online conversation about Envisioning a Post-pandemic Future for Arts and Media Higher Education鈥
Shellie Brattain (OIT) and Dana Angioni (Business) co-chairs of the Family Advocacy Committee recently presented in the 2020 National Association of College Auxiliary Services/Association of College Unions - International-sponsored webinar "Why Lactation Suites are Important for Supporting Families." Attendees learned about lactation鈥
Scott Menter and Frank Alaimo (both Office of Information Technology) will present at the Integrated Systems Europe conference in Amsterdam next month. They will discuss the classroom technology services team's experience building an enterprise audiovisual system for the university as part of the "What's Next ... Higher Education Integrated鈥
The Classroom Technology Services department within the Office of Information Technology has been featured in an AVIXA case study for their innovative use of data that has saved the university an estimated $77,000 annually.
The case study, 性视界传媒 Uses Data to Highlight the Value of a Well-managed AV Operation, explores how the department used data鈥