Saint-Mary-of-the-Woods College has been selected to host the Fall Independent Colleges of Indiana (ICI) Technology Summit.  On November 18th and 19th , Chief Information Officers and appropriate Technical Staff members from the 31 ICI Colleges will assemble at The Woods to observe the technological improvements SMWC has made in recent months.  Participants will also follow an agenda for the two days in which common technological direction/applications for Higher Education will be discussed in a collaborative fashion.  Topics include but will not be limited to: Desktop Virtualization, Governance, “Killer Apps for Higher Ed”, Bandwidth Issues, Legislation (ILIGHT, IRS, Funding, Legal Issues), IPV6, I-Pause (Emergency Notification System), Vendor Management Policies, Cyber Risk/Insurance, and Outsourcing.

“This is a great honor for Saint Mary-of-the-Woods College to host and share the improvements and advancements we have made in technology in the past year; it also affords the opportunity to learn strategies from other institutions to take higher education to the next level.  This will allow everyone from ICI to come together and share ideas and to collaborate together on topics important to today’s college campuses and students,” said Michael Sims, executive director of the Department of Information Technology at Saint Mary-of-the-Woods College.