Furman University

Recent ITS News

• New Technology Keeps Hearing-impaired ‘In the Loop’
  By Jerry Salley Lucy Woodhouse, director of the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute at Furman, had never heard of hearing loops before two different OLLI members asked her if she knew anything about the...
• Importance of Updating Your Operating System and Other Software
  Updating your operating system is vital to the overall health and security of your computer.  Software manufactures are continually fixing software bugs & vulnerabilities, updating drivers, and ma...
• Furman Internet uptime improves to over 99.6%
  Back in October we reported that the reliability of Furman’s Internet connection had improved to 99.4% uptime. (This was an improvement from 99.1% uptime in the previous year.) On Friday, March ...
• Furman Faculty iPad Initiative
  On March 23, 2012, Dean Beckford announced an iPad Initiative for Furman University faculty.  Funded by Information Technology Services (ITS), this initiative is the result of a collaboration of the C...
• IT Service Center Hours Extended
  The IT Service Center, located on the lower level of the Duke Library, now has extended hours! The new hours are: Monday – Thursday from 8:00 a.m. to 11:00 p.m. Friday from 8:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. Sat...
• Tech Talk Forum Moving to OrgSync
  On March 14th, new email for freshmen, sophomores, and juniors will be delivered to accounts on Office 365, instead of FirstClass.  The Tech Talk forum will also be moving from FirstClass to OrgSync o...