Dates

• Majority of material found within 1962 - 2012

Extent

1 box Linear Feet (The IT Support Center provides technology support to students and employees of IUP. In 2007, the central office of the IT Support Center was moved to Delaney Hall, Suite G35. Each of the six colleges (Eberly College of Business and Information Technology, College of Education and Educational Technology, College of Fine Arts, College of Health and Human Services, the College of the Humanities and Social Sciences, and the College of Natural Sciences and Mathematics) within the university and the IUP Libraries has a college technology manager (CTM) that directly reports to the college dean and works in partnership with the IT Support Center to provide the most effective college-specific technology support. The IT Support Center is the product of more than 50 years of computing on campus. In 1963, Indiana State College (ISC became IUP in 1965-1966) enlarged its computer center in the basement of Clark Hall, and director Anna Wink was hired as the first computer professional. Since the installation of the first IBM mainframe in 1963, computing has evolved substantially and brought many changes to IUP from the end of arena student registration for courses to the launching of mobile applications. According to an article in the Alumni News Bulletin (October 1963) an IBM Model 1620 mainframe computer was installed at Indiana State College to “provide students and faculty with both an instructional device and a research tool, according to Mrs. Anna T. Wink, newly appointed director of the enlarged computer center at the college.” This was the first computer on campus. The first disk drive was added to the mainframe in 1964, and the first printer was installed two years later. In 1965, Kenneth Shildt was hired as the first computer center assistant director, and he later became a Management Information Systems faculty member (Department of Information Systems and Decision Sciences). A new computer center opened in 1967 in the basement of John Sutton Hall. In 1968, the School of Business offered two new computer technology concentrations, the Mathematics Department offered nine computer-related courses, and more than 400 students were enrolled in computer-related courses. In 1972, the Department Computer Science became a separate department from Mathematics with Howard Tompkins as the first department chair and James Maple as the first faculty member. The basement of Stright Hall became the new computer center in 1976; it was renamed the Information Systems and Communications Center in 1984. In 1985, IUP President John Welty announced the first major purchase of personal computers, more than $200,000 in IBM-PCs for faculty. By 1987-1988, registration by touch-tone telephone had replace arena registration for courses. IUP joined BITNET in 1988, an academic network that predated the internet, allowing employees and students to communicate via computer with users and resources outside of campus, and Garrett Bozylinksy is hired as the first associate vice president of computing. This was the beginning of electronic communication on campus including e-mail and instant messaging. In 1991, IUP acquired its first internet connection with a bandwidth of 56KB/second; and the Cosmos administrative information system went into effect that ended 28 years of mainframe computing at IUP. Registration by computer was added to telephone registration in 1993. In 1997, the first university-wide website was launched at IUP, www.iup.edu. IUP started to implement Banner in 1998, a software system that has continued to manage university business operations. That year, Criminology professor Robert Mutchnick offered the first online hybrid course in Crime and Justice Systems. IUP offered its first completely online courses in 1999. In 2000, students began registering for classes using the internet, and the bandwidth had expanded to 10 MB/second. The Student Technology Fee was established in 2001, which leads to an expansion in instructional technology including multimedia classrooms and advanced computer labs. By 2006, the IUP data bandwidth had increased to 120 MB/second. In 2007, information technology functions became centralized under IT Services, and the IT Support Center is established to provide technology support to students and employees. During winter session in 2008, IUP began offering solely online courses over a three-week period. In 2010, IUP was chosen to be one of 13 core nodes across Pennsylvania for PennREN, a high-speed computer network. By 2011, 8% of IUP courses are offered online. Bandwidth increased to 600 MB/second in 2011. The following year, the IT Support Center offered the first mobile applications for tablets and smartphones on campus. The above information about the first 50 years of computing at IUP was compiled by Chief Information Officer Bill Balint in 2012-2013. )

Language of Materials

English