How university CIOs push experience gains with modernization

Michigan State University CIO Melissa Woo and Virginia Tech CIO Scott Midkiff join the Cutting EDge podcast to talk about the role of IT modernization in student experience initiatives. https://edscoop.com/admin-user-experience-key-it-modernization-university/ StateScoop & EdScoop's IT Modernization Summit On Demand: https://upgather.com/it-mod-sled/live In the news this week: QuickLaunch, a higher education identity and authentication platform, says systems are back to operational after the platform experienced a distributed denial of service attack last week. https://edscoop.com/quicklaunch-university-outages-havoc-first-day-campus/ San Diego State University has a new mobile safety app that includes campus safety alerts and gives users the ability to share their location with another person or university police. https://edscoop.com/san-diego-state-launches-safety-app/ TimelyMD, a mental health telehealth company that offers its services to universities, will give student users the ability to interact with each other in a new update. https://edscoop.com/student-mental-health-timelymd-peer-to-peer/ Hear more from the higher education information technology community every two weeks on the Cutting EDge podcast. Listen here. https://edscoop.com/cutting-edge-podcast/