McElhaney to replace Falls as computer lab manager
Starting April 1st, faculty members who have questions about technology in their classrooms will be interacting with a different person than they would have before. Justin McElhaney, currently computer support analyst II for IT, will replace Steven Falls as IT Operations computer lab manager.
The computer lab manager is the person responsible for taking care of all the computers, virtual desktops and projectors in technology-enhanced classrooms and computer labs.
According to Chris Golden, Director of IT Operations, the computer lab manager also makes sure that
“students are using what the teachers are teaching”
when it comes to technology.
That means that students and teachers are using the same programs with the same updates on their computers, so there isn’t a disconnect that inhibits the learning process.
Golden said that that fact makes the staff move something faculty would want to know about.
As for students, they will now simply owe the efficiency they experience when they sit down at one of Lee’s computers to a new man.