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Project Spotlight: Office of the Registrar Website

April 28, 2021

The new Office of the Registrar website launched in March. The site has been redesigned to be more navigable, responsive, and it is full of support services for students, instructors, and campus partners. Learn more about the project and what this means for future websites.

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Partner Focus: Health and Wellness Initiatives

April 28, 2021

Health and Wellness Initiatives was established in the Spring of 2020 under the Dean of Students office. Derived out the University of Arizona’s strategic plan, the overarching vision for the creation of the department included providing leadership and structure to expand the health and wellness vision of the institution, advancing mental health services access and expanding professional training opportunities, research, and development.

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Sonoran desert landscape photo by Frankie Lopez

Inside SASG: Smartsheet

April 2, 2021

SASG began using Smartsheet in 2019 as a way to more easily and meaningfully report our project activities to our partners. Learn about how each functional unit within SASG manages projects and tasks in Smartsheet in slightly different ways.

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Screenshot of SASG project gantt found under resources after you log in at /user

Partner Focus: Student Engagement and Career Development

Feb. 8, 2021

Student Engagement & Career Development (SECD) starts out 2021 dedicated to their mission to help students create a life aligned with their purpose and values by providing access and opportunities to develop in-demand skills in and out classroom, help solve authentic challenges facing both businesses and communities, and to design and implement a career plan.

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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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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: 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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