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Project Spotlight: Pantheon Website Migrations

Oct. 1, 2020

Student Admin Systems Group has partnered with the Campus Web Services Team at UITS to migrate new and existing SASG managed websites to Pantheon. Pantheon is what is known as a platform as a service. SASG will still be managing and building the websites for our partners.

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Inside SASG: Password Reset Portal

Oct. 1, 2020

The Password Reset portal is a custom application developed by SASG that assists users in resetting a forgotten or expired domain password after verifying their WebAuth credentials and three security questions. This project concept was borne out of one of those moments where we asked, “Why haven’t we done this already?”

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Password reset button is located on the SASG Helpdesk in the upper right corner of the screen

Partner Focus: Disability Resource Center

Oct. 1, 2020

The Disability Resource Center (DRC) was established in the summer of 1970, about 20 years before the American’s with Disabilities Act (ADA) was passed. With about 40 staff members, the DRC is a leader in the nation for providing a progressive and proactive approach to disability access on campus.

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Partner Focus: Strategic Alternative Learning Techniques (SALT) Center

July 1, 2020

The year 1980 saw the Strategic Alternative Learning Techniques (SALT) Center open their doors and offer their learning assistance services to University of Arizona students. The year 2020 sees the SALT Center celebrating their 40^th birthday and providing their services to around 700 students who make upwards of 30,000 annual visits to the Patricia A. Bartlett building for educational assistance.

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Inside SASG: Graduation and New Staff

July 1, 2020

SASG congratulates and bids farewell to Alex Racy and welcomes two new staff members: Tristan and Kyler!

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Project Spotlight: Integration with D2L

July 1, 2020

As the impact of the COVID-19 outbreak reverberates across our campus community, IT departments need to think creatively and possess a high degree of flexibility to meet their partner’s rapidly changing business processes. In many cases this means taking on custom challenges within much tighter timeframes. The Custom Development team at the Student Admin Systems Group (SASG) recently received just such a challenge, in this case related to new processes for Digital Orientation.

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Inside SASG: Introducing the SASG DevSecOps Team

Feb. 10, 2020

As we begin a new decade, SASG is positioning itself to become the University of Arizona's creative, efficiency and security leader in custom application and website development. We have moved beyond a DevOps (Development & Operations) workflow to a DevSecOps (Development, Security and Operations) model.

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Security encompasses all stages of the DevOps cycle

Project Spotlight: Departmental Moves

Feb. 10, 2020

Change is a constant on the University of Arizona campus. As individual teams and entire departments shift location to increase their function and efficiency, SASG Desktop Services assists groups of all sizes in moving their technology along with them.

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Partner Focus: New Executive Director in the Office of Scholarships and Financial Aid

Feb. 10, 2020

Art Young is the new Executive Director in the Office of Scholarships and Financial Aid (OSFA). He comes to Arizona from Utah State University, where he served as the Director of Financial Aid. Art has a wide educational and professional background, including work experience in almost every sector of the financial aid industry (public, private, proprietary, and student lending). In a prior life, he taught high school for seven years, a foundation which continues to underscore his passion for education, access, and supporting student success.

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Partner Focus: Admissions Processing Unit

Oct. 9, 2019

The Admissions Processing Unit (APU) is responsible for processing, evaluating, reviewing and decisioning all undergraduate applications for admission to the University of Arizona for both domestic and international students for all UA campuses.

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