Tech Times

Author: Cody Bryant

  • Announcing the 2021-22 CSW Award Winners

    Announcing the 2021-22 CSW Award Winners

    Congratulations to the winners of the 2021-2022 Commission on the Status of Women Awards!
    Commission on the Status of Women Excellence Award: Dr. Sandi Smith-Andrews

    Alison Piepmeier Outstanding Student Award: Hannah Eitzen
    About the Awards

    The CSW Excellence Award: This award is presented annually to an individual employed by Tennessee Tech University who has contributed significantly to gender equity. The award honors three qualities that characterize the tradition of women’s leadership at Tech: perseverance, generosity, and mentorship. The award celebrates the efforts of Tennessee Tech employees to provide ongoing leadership and mentoring for the campus community and work towards gender equity for all.

    The Alison Piepmeier Outstanding Student Award: This award celebrates Piepmeier’s legacy of fierce feminism by recognizing an exceptional Tennessee Tech student whose research, activism and/or outreach advances gender equity. It acknowledges a student who shows a passion for learning, goes the extra mile to assist others, and contributes significantly to campus and/or the local community.

  • Call for EDGE QEP course grant applications!

    Call for EDGE QEP course grant applications!

    EDGE: Enhanced Discovery through Guided Exploration is TTU’s Quality Enhancement Plan. The EDGE Creative Inquiry Course Grant Program offers Faculty the opportunity to redesign undergraduate or graduate courses to include creative inquiry projects and assignments. In addition, the EDGE rubric is now an optional method of assessing student work – faculty may propose another method for assessment. The limit on individual course grants is $5,000. The limit on multiple-course curriculum grants is $15,000. April 8 is the application deadline.
    https://www.tntech.edu/oci-qep/edge-curriculum-grant.php

    lweathers@tntech.edu – (931) 372-6539

  • Meet the CITL’s New Instructional Designers!

    Meet the CITL’s New Instructional Designers!

    Join the Center for Innovation in Teaching and Learning (CITL) on Tuesday, March 22nd at 11 AM to meet the newest members of our Instructional Design team, Heather Rippetoe and Taylor Chesson. Heather and Taylor will share about their roles as Instructional Designers and discuss the services they provide. Register using the link below. Please contact the CITL at citl@tntech.edu with any questions.

    Register

  • CAFÉ Conversations: Golden Eagles Take CARE Training

    CAFÉ Conversations: Golden Eagles Take CARE Training

    Join the Center for Advancing Faculty Excellence on Wednesday, March 23rd at 3 PM in the Volpe Library Room 117 for our next CAFÉ Conversations session in the Diversity & Inclusion Series and meet the Director of the Women’s Center, Dr. Helen Hunt, for Golden Eagles Take CARE Training.  Come learn about four basic principles of bystander intervention to help make a safe and inclusive environment. Practice implementing them with your colleagues in situations relevant to your life. Register using the link below. Please contact the CAFÉ with any questions at CAFE@tntech.edu.

    Coffee, tea, water, and individual snacks will be provided.

    Register

  • Microsoft MFA Rollout Continuing

    Microsoft MFA Rollout Continuing

    Back in January, ITS informed all campus users that Tennessee Tech had selected Microsoft to replace IDME as our Multi-Factor Authentication and Self-Service Password Reset system. Part of this transition required all users to register in the new system. For those who haven’t completed the registration process, we have enabled a guided experience that will display when you begin accessing Tennessee Tech web-based applications. Please follow the steps outlined in the new Microsoft system to complete registration. While the work for migrating users is completing, the application migration into our new Microsoft system is continuing. As a result, you will start to see a different experience when logging in to some applications, which may include additional prompts for your email address until the migration has completed.

    For more information about this new system, visit the Tennessee Tech Self-Service Portal and search “Microsoft MFA”. If you have questions, contact the IT Help Desk.

  • I Heart Tech Students Spotlight: Tennessee Tech Athletics

    I Heart Tech Students Spotlight: Tennessee Tech Athletics

    Tennessee Tech Athletics is home to more than 300 student-athletes representing 14 varsity sports. This proud tradition is a century in the making. Your support through the I Heart Tech Students fundraising initiative allows Tech Athletics to provide student-athletes with an incredible academic and athletic experience. As Tech Athletics prepares to celebrate its 100th anniversary, we hope you will get your Wings Up because there are many projects that will benefit from your gift. Hiring additional tutors, providing nutritional support to all teams, supplementing the softball and baseball complex improvements, adding to the golf short-game facility construction and providing equipment and resources for the cross country and track recovery room are just a few of the projects worthy of your support.

    Any gift of any amount to any area made online at https://1915.tntech.edu between Feb. 14 and Mar. 28 counts in the I Heart Tech Students total. Check out the causes featured this year and make a gift to an area on campus that is meaningful to you. Visit https://1915.tntech.edu to learn more.

  • Writing Workshop: Writing Abstracts!

    Do you have to write an abstract for your final paper or research project? Struggling with how to shorten a massive paper into a concise yet informative blurb? WEST, the Writing Excellence Studio at Tech, is here to help! On Thursday, 3/24, we will be leading a dead hour workshop on writing abstracts. Whether you have no idea how to start, or just want some tips, we can help you polish up that research statement! The workshop will be in Henderson Hall 304B, from 11:00-11:50. No registration is required, and all are welcome! For more information, contact Dr. Brian Williams (bjwilliams@tntech.edu).

  • Last Chance – Annual Performance Evaluation Training

    Last Chance – Annual Performance Evaluation Training

    There are only a few more opportunities for 2021-2022 Annual Performance Evaluation Training for Supervisors and Employees.

    The final Supervisor Trainings are scheduled for the following:

      • Wednesday, March 23 at 3:00 PM
      • Thursday, March 24 at 11:00 AM
      • Monday, March 28 at 3:00 PM

      • Tuesday, March 29 at 10:00 AM

    The final Employee Trainings are scheduled for the following:

      • Tuesday, March 22 at 11:00 AM
      • Friday, March 25 at 2:00 PM
      • Monday, March 28 at 9:00 AM

      • Tuesday, March 29 at 2:00 PM

    The Registration Link for Supervisor Training is

    https://tntech-its.as.me/schedule.php?appointmentType=12868638

    The Registration Link for Employee Training is

    https://tntech-its.as.me/schedule.php?appointmentType=12868600

    If you have any questions regarding the Performance Evaluation Process, please contact Human Resources at TTUEmployment@tntech.edu.

     

  • Tn Tech students Spring Breakers help clean up Panama City Beach

    The link of the new story in Florida is at https://www.mypanhandle.com/spring-break-2022/spring-breakers-help-clean-up-panama-city-beach/

  • Diaper and Baby Wipe Drive to benefit The Food Pantry

    Diaper and Baby Wipe Drive to benefit The Food Pantry

    The Non-Traditional Student Organization (NTSO) at Tennessee Tech is hosting a Diaper and Baby Wipe Drive to benefit The Food Pantry on Tuesday, March 22, from 11:00 a.m. – 1:00 p.m. Help us help our fellow non-traditional students who are also parents by donating new and unopened packages of diapers and wipes. We will be collecting outside of the RUC lower-level entrance.

    Researchers generally consider nontraditional students to have the following characteristics: being independent for financial aid purposes, having one or more dependents, being a single caregiver, not having a traditional high school diploma, delaying postsecondary enrollment, attending school part time, and being employed full time (U.S. Dept. of Education, 2017).