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Important PeopleSoft/PeopleTools Patch May 16-17
An important PeopleSoft patch will take many campus services offline from Friday evening on May 16 to noon on Saturday, May 17.
Teams Feature Update May 2025
There are new features and improvements in Microsoft Teams, including scheduling channel messages, forwarding messages, pop-out meeting chat and notes, enhanced external chat protection, and more.
Emerging Tech Dialogue Recordings and Survey Now Available
Did you miss the April 2 Trust & Data event? Don’t worry, recordings and photos of the event are now available! Access to the videos and photos will require a NetID or CWID login. If you attended, please take a few moments to share your thoughts on the event.
Concert Ticket Scam Targets Students
College students are being targeted in a new scam that lures them in with the promise of tickets to sports or concert events and leaves them empty-handed. The university’s Division of Public Safety has urged everyone to be cautious and protect themselves from identity theft and fraud. Learn more about how the scam works.
IT Staff to Build Change Management Skills Ahead of Major Cornell Initiative
One of the most common challenges with any technology change, as anyone who has built a career in IT knows, is guiding people to adopt new ways of working. To strengthen that skill across the IT community, one-day orientation training sessions in Prosci (said as “pro-sigh”) organizational change management are being offered to all IT staff.
The Software Development SIG Meets on May 1
The Software Development (SD) SIG will meet on Thursday, May 1, 2025 from 2-3pm ET. The SD-SIG is open to anyone actively developing software or just interested in software development. Phil Robinson and Jesi Buell will present on the University Library’s online catalog system, "Discovery and Access." Following the presentation, we'll have round-table discussions.
New Student Evaluations of Teaching
The new Student Evaluations of Teaching (SETs) includes a core set of questions and a new software platform.
University Catalog Improvements for 2025-2026
Exciting changes are coming to the University Catalog this summer as part of the CourseLeaf project, an initiative to support academic operations, relieve administrative burden, and provide efficiencies and improvements for students. As changes are rolled out this coming fall, and into 2026, students from all colleges, schools, and units on Ithaca and Cornell Tech campuses will benefit from a more accessible, consistent, and user-friendly catalog.
New Feature: Collaborative Meeting Notes for Teams
Teams meeting organizers have the option to add a collaborative notes feature to meetings.
Roper Roundtable: Explore the Most Important Problem Dataset
On May 7th at 1:30 PM EST, the Roper Center for Public Opinion Research will host a Roper Roundtable Zoom even featuring Laron Williams, who will discuss the second release of the Most Important Problem Dataset (MIPD), a valuable resource for researchers analyzing public opinion on the nation’s most pressing issues.