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Milestones

2006

• Ambler Learning Center Grand Opening
• Start of a 36-month project to upgrade all networking hardware throughout the Temple's campuses
• Implementation of the Paperless Admission project to replace the paper-based admissions process with a state-of-the-art electronic document imaging/workflow system
• Completion of the course renumbering project
• Implemenatation of a new class lists portlet which displays student enrollments along with students' photographs
• Continued implementation of the Five Year Smart Classroom Plan
• Continued implementation of the Five Year Lab Plan
• Installation of Microsoft Exchange for senior administration
• Introducion of the telephone rate restructure plan

2005

• TECH Center Grand Opening
  
• First year implemention of a five year Electronic Research Administration Project to to plan, track, and administer the research process
  
• Installation of E-portfolio system
• Introduction of a high quality printing program
• Continued implementation of the Five Year Smart Classroom Plan
• Newly engineered TUportal2
• Deployment of Microsoft's Systems Management Server (SMS) to senior administrative offices and several departments throughout the University
• Implementation of Intelliresponse
• Continued development of the Web-based course scheduler application called SIMS (Section Information Management System)

2004

• Procedures established to create e-mail accounts for prospective students

• Pilot program implemented to create alumni e-mail accounts

• Changes to over 50 applications allowed the use of AccessNet username and password as the single means of authentication

• Five-year upgrade plan developed for Smart Classrooms

• Tuttleman Scholars Information Center upgraded

• TUmail and TU Calendar enhanced; TUmail issue of Bits&PCs produced; TUmail tip of the week created

• UVote Web site design enhanced and incorporated into TUportal; first online election took place

• Student information systems (ISIS, OWLnet, and OWLink) updated to accommodate new presidential academic policies

• Student Finance and Human Resources Systems upgraded

• Employee pay stubs enhanced to include sick, vacation, and personal leave balances

• First phase of Kronus Time Tracking for Temple University Hospital completed and implemented; Kronus Time Tracking completed and implemented for student workers in Academic Computer Services

• OWLnet enhanced to include Web-based student orientation scheduling and placement testing and requests for enrollment verification letters and financial award letters

• Report2Web system implemented to make Cost Center Reports available online

• Consolidated tape backup system installed for departmental servers

• Technical Liaison Group established for Schools and Colleges

• Computer Services Web site unified and expanded

• New Web site designs implemented for the Boyer College of Music, Tyler School of Art, School of Dentistry, and Internal Audits

• Pilot program in Web content management software initiated

• Gladfelter Hall training room upgraded

• Computer Services created and offered 17 new seminars

• Wireless network and support services expanded

• State-of-the-art Internet firewall installed

• Cable television drop upgraded in the residence halls

• Telephone, Internet, and cable television service installed in the College of Podiatric Medicine Residence Hall; telephone and Internet service installed in Elmira Jeffries Residence Hall

• Distance education classrooms relocated at Fort Washington

• Frank Azuola appointed Assistant Vice President of Data Operations

2003

• New TUmail system from Mirapoint installed and implemented

• TUportal implemented and introduced

• Blackboard System upgraded to version 6

• Chief Information Security Officer hired; Security Roundtable established; Network Security Policy developed and implemented; Comprehensive Information Security Program (CISP) developed and implemented; Security controls in Wachman Hall Data Center enhanced and renovated

• Telephone system upgraded

• Network backbone upgraded to Gigabit capacity

• Temple connected to the Internet2 network

• Computer Recycling Center established

• Telephone bills made available on the web

• New outdoor emergency phones installed

• "Surf Station," a free laptop loaner program, opened in the Student Center; wireless zones on campus expanded

• OWLnet features enhanced

• New allocation methodology for the Computer & Technology Fee developed and instituted

• Online purchase requisitioning system developed

• 24-hour computer lab access made available in Tuttleman Learning Center

• Programming changes made to implement Presidential Academic Policies

• Departmental use of Feith document imaging system expanded

• Application developed to generate adjunct faculty hiring letters

• Online applications developed and implemented to streamline Human Resources systems

• Smart classroom created in the Engineering building with a grant from Verizon

• Wachman Hall computer training room renovated and equipment updated; seminar offerings expanded

• Upgraded equipment installed in the Dental School, Pharmacy lab, Ambler, Fort Washington, and the main computer lab in the Tuttleman Learning Center

• Computer Services Advisory Committee established

2002

• Enhanced IMAP-based Cherry & White Pages unveiled offering user information and e-mail management

• FrontPage interface and publish features available for departmental webmasters

• Standardized @temple.edu e-mail addresses made available

• AccessNet accounts introduced

• Computer kiosks listing campus events become available

• OWLnet features enhanced to include admission application status checking

• Online computer seminar registration debuts

• Calendar program added to the Mailbox website

• SSH Secure Shell made available as an alternative to Telnet

• New ISCs open at HSC and Ambler

• Login authentication implemented to monitor activity on public computers

• Astro/Blackboard account creation automated through website

• Blackboard CourseInfo upgraded to Blackboard 5

• Residence Hall phone/Internet service application available through website

• Blackboard CourseInfo program, installed on a Dell PowerEdge running Windows NT, introduced

• Dedicated SMTP server implemented

• DCANet program for dial-in access negotiated

• Proxy server implemented for restricted access to Temple resources, such as the library databases

• Web interface for Listserv implemented; lists moved from IBM VM to Unix system

• IMAP services implemented for accessing e-mail on Unix systems

• Mailbox website introduced for accessing Temple e-mail

• Tuttleman Learning Center opens · Diamond Online Catalog becomes available

• Thunder Unix accounts folded into Astro system

• Computer Services website is launched

• Astro Unix system upgraded to two DEC Alpha 4100s

• Compute, an Alpha 8200 running Unix, introduced as a high-end research system

• Student information website initiated

• What's New Listserv created

• Interactive Voice Response system expanded and renamed the Diamond Line

• Computer Usage and Software Policy created

• New Smart Classrooms added in Vivacqua Hall, School of Pharmacy Building, Kresge Hall, and Jones Hall

• New ISC opens in Speakman

• Astro Unix system upgraded to a DEC Alpha 4100

• Temple University website launched · PPP dial-in service activated

• BITnet (Because It's Time network) phased out

• Temple's online directory, the Cherry & White Pages, debuts

• Temple's WWW central web server introduced

• Smart classrooms open in Anderson and smart carts debut

• Course schedules available through Gopher program

• IBM VM mainframe upgraded from 3084Q to a 3090 400J

• Two additional Unix systems added to accommodate growing number of e-mail accounts; Thunder, a DEC Alpha 2100 and Nimbus, a DEC Alpha 2100A

• Telephone Registration debuts

• IBM VM mainframe upgraded from 3084Q to a 3090 200E

• Temple's modem pool upgraded to 14,400 bps

• Text web browsers become available through Lynx (Unix) and Charlotte's web (IBM VM) programs · Anonymous FTP site (contrib) implemented · Temple site-license software program introduced

• Instructional Technologies User Group (ITUG) formed for faculty to share ideas

• Tape cartridges introduced on IBM VM system

• Usenet newsgroups become available through TIN (UNIX) and NNR (VM) newsreader programs

• Instructional Support Center (ISC) opens in Wachman Hall

• Campus information posted online via Gopher program

• Cyber, a CDC (Control Data Corporation) 180-860 system running NOS retired from service

• IBM VM mainframe running CMS upgraded from a 3081K to a 3084Q

• Astro, a CDC (Control Data Corporation) 4680 system running Unix launched

• Evening seminars are offered

• VM system is upgraded from a 4381 to a 3081K running the VM/XA operating system

• Paley Scholars Information Center opens

• New Wiseowl modems are installed

• Microcomputer Purchases Program is initiated

• Computer Guidebook is introduced to provide an overview of Temple's computer resources

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