Through the ITS Self Study process and other anecdotal feedback, it has become a common request for the college to adopt an integrated email/calendaring system for the entire campus. The advantages of this kind of integrated system are already realized in many administrative offices. Group calendaring allows for offices to easily schedule meetings across departments, allow administrative assistants to proxy calendars on behalf of others, and also tightly integrates the sending, receiving, and responding to meeting requests through an email interface. Moving to a joint system for the entire college, including students, staff and faculty, would expand these and other functions to a greater audience.

ITS established a workgroup to research and evaluate current email/calendaring systems. This workgroup, with the help of a faculty/staff/student focus group and the approval of the Academic and Administrative Computing Advisory committees, made the recommendation that the Zimbra Collaboration suite become the new email system for the entire college.

We are now planning the implemenation of this new system, scheduled for this summer and fall (2007). You can check this website for details about this project or check with your ITS Coordinator for more information throughout the year.

For more information, see the links below.