Central Michigan University issued the following announcement on Jan. 4.
Everyone knows 2020 was the year of the pivot, when the pandemic suddenly changed the way people connected to work and learn.
Staff and student employees in Central Michigan University's Office of Information Technology fired up to work the front lines of that pivot and have the numbers to show it.
In the space of one week in March, when CMU transitioned to online-only operations, OIT supported a more than fivefold increase in use of remote meeting and messaging software — from 3,000 users to 17,000 — and more than nine times the number of virtual meetings, from 213 to 1,973.
And that was only the beginning, said Jim Bujaki, CMU's vice president for information technology and chief information officer.
While drafting scores of full-time, part-time and student employees into a "volunteer army" adding tech support and troubleshooting to their regular duties, OIT also geared up to create a mobile health screening app to monitor and protect against the spread of COVID-19; and to equip the CMU community for a whole new way of teaching, learning and working.
Original source can be found here.
Source: Central Michigan University
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