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Embracing New Technology for Student Success: Takeaways from a Design-Thinking Workshop at CommEX24

By Amber Rasche – Senior Communications Specialist, Internet2 During the 2024 Internet2 Community Exchange, participants in the Embracing New Tech for Student Success workshop applied a human-centered design framework in a set of exercises to align the student journey with the current technological and academic landscape. The workshop – led by Netta Caligari of West…

IAM Online Speaker Spotlight: Intro to Identity & Access Management with UT Austin’s Grady Bailey

By Iain Oldman, Copywriter, Content Marketing, Internet2 Grady Bailey, a team lead and senior software engineer at the University of Texas at Austin, will dive into the fundamentals of identity and access management (IAM) as part of the InCommon IAM Online series. Please join us on May 15 at 1 p.m. ET for Grady’s webinar,…

Mobile Madness: The eduroam Edition

By Sara Jeanes, Director, eduroam and InCommon Certificate Services The eduroam team had some fun with the NCAA Women’s Basketball bracket this year.We thought it would be interesting to look at successful eduroam logins from the 64 schools in the bracket, pitting them head to head to see who would come out as the 2024…

The Future of InCommon Federation Services: 3 Important Enhancements 

By Albert Wu, InCommon Federation Manager, Internet2 Trust & Identity There’s a great deal on the horizon for the InCommon Federation in 2024. We’re pleased to announce three long-awaited enhancements to our services, and I’m excited to share the details with the community to assist in your future planning. 1. Enabling Federated Access to the…

The Power of Partnering with Peers: University of Texas at Austin Builds Lasting Relationships During InCommon’s Collaboration Success Program

CASE STUDY CLOSE UP The University of Texas at Austin (UT Austin) participated in the 2022 cohort of the Collaboration Success Program (CSP) as part of its identity and governance administration (IGA) modernization effort. (Read the case study.) “We used the CSP to learn more about Grouper and midPoint and to get our team some…

Internet2 at the 2024 Cybersecurity and Privacy Professionals Conference

By Nick Lewis – Internet2 Program Manager We are fortunate that this year continues to present so many fantastic opportunities to meet you where you are. Those opportunities include not only Internet2-hosted events but also other important cloud and information security gatherings for the research and education community. Join Internet2 at the 2024 Cybersecurity and…

Five-Time Speaker Tom Jordan Offers Insights on InCommon BaseCAMP and Beyond

Edited By Apryl Motley, Communications & Technical Writing Consultant, Internet2  According to several numerology reference texts, the number five signifies curiosity and change. Two words that definitely come to mind as we prepare to welcome five-time speaker Tom Jordan back to InCommon BaseCAMP, June 3-7, 2024.   A solutions architect at the University of Wisconsin-Madison (UW-Madison),…

Modernization Through Collaboration: West Chester University’s IAM Roadmap Evolved During the InCommon Collaboration Success Program

West Chester University (WCU) participated in the 2023 cohort of the Collaboration Success Program (CSP) to explore identity and access management (IAM) solutions.  Unified and Modern IAM One of the university’s primary goals was to shift towards a unified identity system. To accomplish this goal, WCU needed to integrate three ERP systems, maintain support for…

InCommon Federation Community Consultation through April 30: Deployment Guidance for REFEDS Access Entity Categories

By Albert Wu, InCommon Federation Manager I am pleased to announce an InCommon Federation community consultation of the Deployment Guidance for REFEDS Access Entity Categories. This consultation is open through April 30, 2024 at 5 p.m. PDT. (You’ll need to sign into the Internet2 wiki to post your feedback, and we hope you will.) Facilitating…

Off Loading Cellular Traffic Over Wireless: To Open Roam or Not? and Why Not eduroam?

By Saira Hasnain – Associate Vice President & Deputy CIO, University of Florida FROM THE DESK OF THE eAC Note from the eAC Chair: This article is the first of a series from members of the eduroam-US Advisory Committee (eAC). The eAC discusses a wide range of topics within the wireless and mobility space, and…