What about the pre-pre meeting? We actually have them where I work. Before the meeting with the customers, there's a pre-meeting so Quality doesn't nitpick your presentation in front of the customer. But now there's too much of that going on at the pre-meeting and not enough time between the two to fix everything. What's the solution? Not to move the pre-meeting back, but to hold a pre-pre meeting. When I got my first pre-pre-meeting invite, I thought it was a joke. If only.
I like the idea, but for many Universities it's just not an option. At my University, there are 40,000 students alone, not including all the faculty & support staff required to maintain an institution of this size.
Keeping all of this up and running requires many full-time network admins, and in some areas round-the-clock support staff. Plus some of the older secretaries mentioned in an earlier post tend to mistrust student employees.
However, that doesn't mean that there is no room for student involvement. I personally work for the Residential Network (dorms, etc.) and there are opportunities for students in departmental networks (Zoology, etc.), central IT division, and numerous computer labs. Our student web hosting services are also student run. Students fill extremely varied positions, from maintaining large servers to teaching classes on computers through the labs.
So I salute the universities out there with entirely student-run IT. I just have one question for you. How do you convince older University employees that you're there to fix the computer, not steal it?
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What about the pre-pre meeting? We actually have them where I work. Before the meeting with the customers, there's a pre-meeting so Quality doesn't nitpick your presentation in front of the customer. But now there's too much of that going on at the pre-meeting and not enough time between the two to fix everything. What's the solution? Not to move the pre-meeting back, but to hold a pre-pre meeting. When I got my first pre-pre-meeting invite, I thought it was a joke. If only.
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I like the idea, but for many Universities it's just not an option. At my University, there are 40,000 students alone, not including all the faculty & support staff required to maintain an institution of this size.
Keeping all of this up and running requires many full-time network admins, and in some areas round-the-clock support staff. Plus some of the older secretaries mentioned in an earlier post tend to mistrust student employees.
However, that doesn't mean that there is no room for student involvement. I personally work for the Residential Network (dorms, etc.) and there are opportunities for students in departmental networks (Zoology, etc.), central IT division, and numerous computer labs. Our student web hosting services are also student run. Students fill extremely varied positions, from maintaining large servers to teaching classes on computers through the labs.
So I salute the universities out there with entirely student-run IT. I just have one question for you. How do you convince older University employees that you're there to fix the computer, not steal it?