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When members of Cornell's Service Management Special Interest Group (SIG) gathered recently to discuss knowledge management, they weren't just talking about documentation. They were tackling a challenge familiar to nearly every IT organization: how to make information easier to find, share, and…
For some employees, a term appointment can be a stepping stone to new skills, broader experience, and unexpected career opportunities. After observing 10 new term appointments posted under the CEMI program, technical communicator Carlyn Chatfield reflected on two career decisions she faced in a…
What should the Information Technology community at Cornell be talking about this fall? The Emerging Tech Dialogues planning team is seeking breakout session ideas and facilitators for the October 13 event.
Thirty participants from 23 units across eight colleges, including travelers from Weill Cornell Medicine in New York City and Cornell Cooperative Extension in Suffolk County, gathered in early August to explore what an AI-enabled future of software development might look like at Cornell.
Prepare for fresh ideas and unexpected connections as creative thinking, emerging technologies, and the expertise of Information Technology professionals come together at Emerging Tech Dialogues: From Ideas to Impact. Register today, reserve October 13 on your calendar, and get ready to explore the…
In late July, a toggle became available in Zoom settings that allows enablement of the new Zoom web portal interface. Starting August 13, 2026, the new interface will become the only option as the legacy interface is retired.The new user interface makes the Zoom web portal experience more closely…
Do you use Surveys Lite (Microsoft Forms) to collect survey responses, registrations, feedback, or other information for your department or project team?
Box has announced that Box Sync will no longer be supported beginning in December 2026. Once unsupported, continuing to use it could expose Cornell to security vulnerabilities and unresolved bugs. Therefore, Box Sync will be retired in December 2026. While files will still be available on…
When Robert “Bob” Talda talks about making a career pivot, he often points to a path he spent years preparing for but ultimately chose not to pursue. While his plans changed, the experience left him with skills that would shape both his IT career and decades of service to the Cornell community.…
This summer, Microsoft Teams is rolling out a collection of enhancements designed to make collaboration smoother, meetings more productive, and account management less cumbersome. Among the nine updates introduced in July 2026, one of the most notable for Cornell's IT community is the new cross-…
The SC Johnson College of Business faced a challenge familiar to many evolving organizations: processes that worked well in smaller, independent schools no longer scaled easily after the transition to a combined organization. Informal coordination, hallway conversations, and institutional memory…
Behind the scenes in Cornell’s College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, Ido Efrati is helping shape how AI gets adopted. He does so by starting not with the technology, but with the people and problems it might serve.In practice, that means sitting down with a person or team and asking them to…
On May 4, 2026, Cornell’s direction for AI innovation was emphasized early and often: don’t start with the technology, start with the problem. That framing set the tone for the university’s latest AI Demo Day, where students, faculty, and staff presented projects rooted in real campus needs.Rather…
Considering a career shift? Learn to support the CEMI modernization efforts or backfill an open role through new limited-term assignments across the insitution.Designed around evolving project needs, the backfill opportunities allow participants to build new skills, gain exposure to different teams…
Cornell launched its Kindsight Ascend initiative in mid-April, beginning a university-wide effort to unify legacy systems and improve the donor and engagement experience.
Even before staffing levels began to shift, Rose Howard was rethinking how work gets done—rebuilding her processes and adapting her workload with Smartsheet. Today, those efforts form the backbone of how she manages, analyzes, and shares complex data with faculty and administrators in Cornell’s…
Curt Cole, Vice President and Chief Global Information Officer, announced in a May 2026 Town Hall that Cornell’s Experience Modernization Initiative (CEMI) has entered a major new phase, with several core programs—led by the Workday platform—moving into the “build” stage. This phase focuses on…
More than 200 CEMI colleagues recently came together for the Workday Architect and Configure kickoff, marking an important shift from preparation to hands‑on decision making. This phase is about more than building a system—it’s about intentionally designing the foundation that will shape how work…
Box Drive now offers a better way to access your files in Box directly from your desktop without taxing your local storage. Box Drive Features and Benefits
Cornell Information Technologies (CIT) is transitioning its Slack workspaces to Microsoft Teams on January 23, 2026. Previously announced in October, the move helps streamline communication across the organization and supports the university’s broader cost-savings goals reflected in Resilient…