IT Solutions
Weinberg College IT Solutions has been transforming over the last year and a half. With new faces, different organizational structure, and re-focused priorities, we’re looking at our projects in the College with fresh purpose.
WITS News, Fall 2019
Director's note
Welcome back! My team and I are excited to start this new year with you and to announce our new name and focus. Instead of Weinberg IT, we are now Weinberg College IT Solutions (or WITS for short). The WITS mission is to provide broad-based, high-impact solutions to the College that facilitate research, enhance teaching and learning, and improve administration and process. Learn more about this change.
We are very excited that the Media and Design Studio (“MADS”), a leader in the technological and pedagogical support of languages and the humanities, has joined us as a new operational extension. We look forward to continuing our work together, guided by input from a newly formed faculty advisory committee.
Lastly, our project to integrate Weinberg College IT support operations with Northwestern IT is now complete. If you didn’t notice much change, then we have met our goal. What you should notice are some new faces and improvements in support. For example, when ordering a new Dell computer, it will now arrive imaged and ready to go with minimal need for additional setup, significantly shortening the deployment process.
With all this change, you may have questions about where to go for various services. We’ve compiled a chart to help guide you but if ever you ever need help, please feel free to contact me or any member of my team. You can also send us an email at WITS@northwestern.edu.
Michael Satut
IT Solutions
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