Category Faculty/Staff News & Events

Register Now for July 29 & 30 TIAA Plan Sponsor Webinars

You’re invited: Plan sponsor webinars–July programs: -TIAA Lifetime Income Series: Improving Participant Outcomes: “Testing the Waters” with New Qualified Default Options: July 29, 2020, at 2 p.m. (ET) Register Here:  -Investment Perspectives: TIAA Global Market Outlook and Quarterly Investment Performance…

Horizons International – Looking for Club Advisor

Horizons International is a student-run organization. Our goal is to focus on the inclusion of the diverse cultures on campus and support international students. We celebrate festivals from different countries and help international students feel at home. We are looking…

Technical Training Workshops offered July 27-31

Information Services is pleased to offer the following sessions for faculty and staff professional development. All sessions will be taught remotely, either via Blackboard Collaborate or Google Meet. You may register for these at  The schedule is also posted at …

New Whiteboard Annotation Tools Coming to Blackboard Collaborate

With the Blackboard Collaborate release coming Aug. 6, attendees can enjoy better formatting, usability, and annotation persistence with the release of new whiteboard annotation tools. With these improvements, attendees can enjoy these features on a session whiteboard or shared file.…

Hiring Student Employees this Fall?

Please contact Catherine Langton in Student Employment if your department is planning to hire any student employees this fall. New guidelines require your department’s involvement. OWU Sponsoring Organization/Office: Student Employment. Contact: Catherine Langton at studentemployment@owu.edu

Horizons International – Looking for Club Advisor

Horizons International is a student-run organization. Our goal is to focus on the inclusion of the diverse cultures on campus and support international students. We celebrate festivals from different countries and help international students feel at home. We are looking…

Enhancements to Blackboard Learn Coming Aug. 6

The upcoming release to Blackboard Learn, our learning management system, includes these new and improved features, and will be applied to our system on Thursday, 8 Additional sources for embedded media in the text editor (Ultra course view): This release…

Hiring Student Employees this Fall?

Please contact Catherine Langton in Student Employment if your department is planning to hire any student employees this fall. New guidelines require your department’s involvement. OWU Sponsoring Organization/Office: Student Employment. Contact: Catherine Langton at studentemployment@owu.edu

Technical Training Workshops offered July 27-31

Information Services is pleased to offer the following sessions for faculty and staff professional development. All sessions will be taught remotely, either via Blackboard Collaborate or Google Meet. You may register for these at  The schedule is also posted at …

Summer Blackboard Collaborate Updates

Blackboard is continually improving their web conferencing platform. Secure recording links will be released on July 16: As part of their commitment to security and privacy, they want to give instructors more control over their recordings. Public access to recordings…