About ITS

From the Director: What kind of technology environment should a college like Goshen College have? GC is a small Christian college with excellent academics and a global perspective, a college that promotes peace, justice, service and discipleship. You wouldn't necessarily expect to find a cutting edge technology environment at a place like GC, but it's here.

Like the student body at GC, the ITS staff is full of talented people who could go anywhere, but who choose to be here because of the values the institution holds and aspires to. ITS Staff and the students we employ possess a technical depth, a commitment to service and a work ethic that is simply amazing. Their gift to you is a technology environment that supports and enhances teaching, learning, research and publishing, and to the best of our abilities, reflects the values of the institution. You may not have chosen GC for the technology, but we believe you'll appreciate what it does for your academic experience here.

Briefly put, our commitment is to:
    * Mission-driven computing.  We acknowledge that technology can help improve the way we teach, learn, deliver services and operate the college, and are committed to letting the strategic priorities of the institution shape the agenda of ITS.
    * Innovation. We make being small an advantage by being nimble and avoiding the inertia and political problems that afflict larger schools. This year, it allowed us to have the most aggressive Windows 7 rollout in the state and one of the only 64 bit Windows rollouts in the region.
    * Excellence. We've gone to great lengths to create a technology infrastructure that is worthy of the finest colleges anywhere.
    * Student-focused computing. The entry point for new equipment at GC is our student labs, and that's just one example of how we're working to meet the needs of students across the campus.
    * Sustainable Computing. This is why we like and use Linux for our server infrastructure and why we jumped at the opportunity to use Mac Minis on the desktop. It's also why we strive to be good stewards of the resources entrusted to us, strategically placing technology where it delivers maximum benefit.
    * Service-oriented Computing. It's why we started the Mennonite.net project which serves 2200 organizations and congregations across the globe, and why we continue to contribute our best work back to the open source development community.
    * Continuous Improvement. We're not resting on our laurels. We make substantial improvements to the computing environment each year to keep up with rising expectations and the rapid pace of technological improvement.

What kind of technology environment should a college like GC have?

With each passing year, we can answer with greater confidence, "One just like what we've got."