Supposedly it has to do with faculty members concern about privacy. The technology the campus offers is great, as I said, but IT takes a super old approach to servicing the technology. iLearn gets the job "done", but its unorganized and severely lacks any modern features that other online teaching solutions offer. No one knows how to work them properly, yet alone debug them when they behave improperly. It is the definition of performance inhibitors. Between Lotus Notes and "Foxmail", its impossible to get things done. The campus insists on using completely outdated email and online teaching software. If student workers try to call back and they don't get a response, its somehow the student's fault. When faculty call, they put in service tickets. And the faculty sometimes takes it out on the students. It seems like most faculty don't understand how computers work, even in the CS department. Everyone else is either grumpy or utterly impatient and rude. Some were nice, but thats as far as it extends. The management I worked with in IT was mixed. Maybe its because they pay way more hourly and don't involve impatient faculty members, get appreciation and recognition for their work, and don't have to deal with 5+ different conflicting managers telling them what to do all at the same time. Most of the best student workers leave the Marist IT departments to go work for IBM.
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