Ravi Blogs about IT Topics

Over the years that I have been here, I have participated in several E-mail transitions both in the front end as well as back end. I can assure you that given the complexity of E-mail systems, we have done extremely well and we have always done things that have been leading edge and very creative [...]

Both Jolee and I attended the 20th annual meeting  of Consortium of Liberal Arts Colleges (CLAC) at Union College in Schenectady, NY. The campus is  beautiful and sprawling. The College was founded in 1795 and  I think they bought all the land they could and help on to it. CLAC is a very small group [...]

I have had discussions with a few of you recently about purchasing and negotiations. In the event you don’t know, I negotiate EVERY single major purchase that ITS makes. There are varied opinions on this strategy, primarily “Is this worth anyone’s time?” My answer is, if you do it right, it is worth every penny [...]

We had another extremely busy and exciting year (We are putting together the Annual Report and it is really amazing how much we have done in the past year!). So, it is time to start planning for the next year…
At the Director’s retreat in April, we talked about the departmental goals for the upcoming year [...]