{"id":1669,"date":"2021-04-19T13:30:27","date_gmt":"2021-04-19T17:30:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/magazine\/?p=1669"},"modified":"2021-04-20T12:33:25","modified_gmt":"2021-04-20T16:33:25","slug":"innovation-on-demand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/magazine\/innovation-on-demand\/","title":{"rendered":"Innovation on Demand"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h4 id=\"after-more-than-a-year-on-the-job-it-vice-chancellor-vicki-farnsworth-is-eager-to-do-what-brought-her-here\" class=\"wp-block-heading\"><em>After more than a year on the job,&nbsp;IT Vice Chancellor&nbsp;Vicki Farnsworth is eager to do what brought her here.<\/em>&nbsp;<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1136\" height=\"638\" src=\"https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/magazine\/files\/2021\/03\/Vicki-Farnsworth-21-10-edited.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1687\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/magazine\/files\/2021\/03\/Vicki-Farnsworth-21-10-edited.jpg 1136w, https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/magazine\/files\/2021\/03\/Vicki-Farnsworth-21-10-edited-300x168.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/magazine\/files\/2021\/03\/Vicki-Farnsworth-21-10-edited-1024x575.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/magazine\/files\/2021\/03\/Vicki-Farnsworth-21-10-edited-768x431.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/magazine\/files\/2021\/03\/Vicki-Farnsworth-21-10-edited-380x213.jpg 380w, https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/magazine\/files\/2021\/03\/Vicki-Farnsworth-21-10-edited-800x449.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1136px) 100vw, 1136px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><em>by Chuck Wasserstrom<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-drop-cap is-cnvs-dropcap-bg-dark\">VVicki Farnsworth&nbsp;will be&nbsp;one of the most excited&nbsp;people&nbsp;on&nbsp;the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga&nbsp;campus&nbsp;when&nbsp;the global pandemic is over.&nbsp;Finally,&nbsp;she\u2019ll&nbsp;get to&nbsp;carry out&nbsp;what she came&nbsp;to&nbsp;UTC&nbsp;to do&nbsp;more than a year ago.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>After spending&nbsp;almost 25&nbsp;years at&nbsp;her&nbsp;alma mater,&nbsp;Purdue University,&nbsp;Farnsworth&nbsp;left&nbsp;West Lafayette, Indiana, in January 2020&nbsp;to join UTC as its first-ever&nbsp;vice chancellor for information technology and chief information officer.&nbsp;She&nbsp;was set to hit the ground running, but&nbsp;less than&nbsp;10 weeks&nbsp;after her arrival,&nbsp;COVID-19&nbsp;entered the picture.&nbsp;The pandemic forced&nbsp;Farnsworth to learn&nbsp;her&nbsp;IT&nbsp;division and the University&nbsp;during a time of&nbsp;chaos.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 id=\"the-problem-solvers\" class=\"cnvs-block-section-heading cnvs-block-section-heading-1616076859229 halignleft\" >\n\t<span class=\"cnvs-section-title\">\n\t\t<span>the problem solvers\u00a0<\/span>\n\t<\/span>\n<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Information Technology&nbsp;has been one of the unsung&nbsp;heroes&nbsp;in&nbsp;maintaining&nbsp;business continuity&nbsp;during the pandemic, and&nbsp;Farnsworth saw&nbsp;firsthand the&nbsp;campus wide&nbsp;emphasis&nbsp;on&nbsp;Mocs&nbsp;helping&nbsp;Mocs.&nbsp;\u201cI&nbsp;learned&nbsp;right away that this is a University that really cares&nbsp;about students,\u201d Farnsworth says.&nbsp;\u201cI never thought we would just be sending out&nbsp;a&nbsp;blanket&nbsp;message&nbsp;\u2018Do you need equipment to be able to complete this semester?\u2019&nbsp;UTC put&nbsp;its&nbsp;money where&nbsp;its&nbsp;mouth is when it came&nbsp;to students and scholarships and making sure students have what they need.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWe shipped so much equipment to students&nbsp;when COVID-19 hit&nbsp;because they couldn\u2019t come back to&nbsp;campus.&nbsp;Being able to get equipment to them,&nbsp;making&nbsp;sure they could log in, being able to connect remotely to be able to support them&nbsp;\u2026 they were all&nbsp;important parts&nbsp;in&nbsp;what&nbsp;my team was able to do.\u201d&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Farnsworth&nbsp;and&nbsp;the IT&nbsp;staff&nbsp;ensured the campus&nbsp;could&nbsp;run smoothly&nbsp;in a remote&nbsp;learning&nbsp;setting, and&nbsp;that&nbsp;took&nbsp;more than&nbsp;power,&nbsp;Wi-Fi&nbsp;and&nbsp;equipment. They pivoted&nbsp;multiple times&nbsp;as the landscape&nbsp;continually&nbsp;changed. They worked&nbsp;to ease concerns of&nbsp;faculty&nbsp;and students&nbsp;skeptical about online learning, those&nbsp;forced to step outside comfort zones&nbsp;in the sudden shift to online instruction.&nbsp;\u201cSo much of&nbsp;what we did&nbsp;was about classrooms,\u201d she says. \u201cWe&nbsp;had&nbsp;to spend&nbsp;a lot of time and energy updating classroom equipment,&nbsp;even simple things like making sure there&nbsp;were&nbsp;microphones. We were able to&nbsp;get software like Kaltura&nbsp;and make it available, which&nbsp;allows faculty to tape their lectures ahead of time.\u201d&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Farnsworth also points&nbsp;to&nbsp;a&nbsp;much-needed and&nbsp;long-awaited&nbsp;voice-over-internet protocol (VoIP)&nbsp;phone system&nbsp;rollout&nbsp;that allowed&nbsp;campus units&nbsp;flexibility.&nbsp;\u201cWe have some&nbsp;great stories&nbsp;in&nbsp;Financial&nbsp;Aid where we were able to make it look like the person was sitting on campus by the phone, but they\u2019re sitting at home,\u201d she says. \u201cWe took&nbsp;the IT&nbsp;help desk and made it completely remote,&nbsp;all from the comfort of each&nbsp;employee\u2019s home.&nbsp;Being where we were from a voice-over IP&nbsp;perspective allowed us to make COVID go a little bit&nbsp;smoother.\u201d&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Then a&nbsp;tornado&nbsp;struck&nbsp;the&nbsp;eastern region of Chattanooga the&nbsp;night of&nbsp;Easter&nbsp;Sunday&nbsp;2020,&nbsp;leaving&nbsp;damage throughout the&nbsp;region&nbsp;and&nbsp;forcing&nbsp;Farnsworth and her group to pivot&nbsp;yet again. They had&nbsp;to get&nbsp;MiFi&#8217;s\u2014or personal&nbsp;Wi-Fi&nbsp;hot spot devices\u2014out to people.&nbsp;\u201cI received a phone&nbsp;call that night&nbsp;because there was a chemistry professor who&nbsp;wouldn\u2019t be able to&nbsp;teach her class on Monday&nbsp;because of the tornado. The team came to campus and figured out a way to get&nbsp;an&nbsp;internet connection to that faculty member&nbsp;and she taught&nbsp;last minute,\u201d she recalls.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Pandemics don\u2019t come with manuals or guides.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cChaos preparation in IT is something you do work on, and&nbsp;I\u2019ve done some pretty big projects&nbsp;during my work history,\u201d Farnsworth says. \u201cOne of the most positive things that&nbsp;happened here was due&nbsp;to the IT team that was already in place. There were people ready to step up.&nbsp;We were in constant contact with each other.&nbsp;That\u2019s&nbsp;how we survived this.&nbsp;There\u2019s&nbsp;nothing like a&nbsp;natural&nbsp;disaster to bring together a team.&nbsp;I think we\u2019re more cohesive as an IT organization because we went through that together.\u201d&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/magazine\/files\/2021\/03\/IT-Department-20-195-edited.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1674\" width=\"700\" height=\"393\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/magazine\/files\/2021\/03\/IT-Department-20-195-edited.jpg 1062w, https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/magazine\/files\/2021\/03\/IT-Department-20-195-edited-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/magazine\/files\/2021\/03\/IT-Department-20-195-edited-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/magazine\/files\/2021\/03\/IT-Department-20-195-edited-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/magazine\/files\/2021\/03\/IT-Department-20-195-edited-380x214.jpg 380w, https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/magazine\/files\/2021\/03\/IT-Department-20-195-edited-800x450.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><figcaption>Vicki Farnsworth and IT team in Lupton Hall.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h2 id=\"chatech-connect\" class=\"cnvs-block-section-heading cnvs-block-section-heading-1616076842047 halignleft\" >\n\t<span class=\"cnvs-section-title\">\n\t\t<span><strong>ChaTech&nbsp;Connect<\/strong>&nbsp;<\/span>\n\t<\/span>\n<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Along with&nbsp;building bridges&nbsp;internally, Farnsworth has been doing her part&nbsp;externally&nbsp;to grow the UTC brand.&nbsp;Earlier this year, she joined&nbsp;the board of directors at&nbsp;ChaTech\u2014&nbsp;Chattanooga\u2019s technology council\u2014whose&nbsp;mission&nbsp;is&nbsp;to connect the technology community to help drive economic growth across the region.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In discussing why becoming a director at&nbsp;ChaTech&nbsp;is important, Farnsworth says,&nbsp;\u201cWhere I came from, being&nbsp;in the middle-of-nowhere, Indiana,&nbsp;the university&nbsp;was the community. You had a town&nbsp;where the&nbsp;population got small in the summer and then grew in the fall.&nbsp;Here,&nbsp;a&nbsp;whole world exists,&nbsp;and&nbsp;many local companies are trying to do the same things&nbsp;I\u2019m&nbsp;trying to do, so being part of the&nbsp;urban&nbsp;community and being able to make&nbsp;connections&nbsp;is&nbsp;so&nbsp;meaningful.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cIn higher education, we are approaching&nbsp;a&nbsp;really weird&nbsp;time where&nbsp;fewer students are&nbsp;going to college,&nbsp;and&nbsp;there will be&nbsp;more places and skills that we need people to be ready for.&nbsp;The&nbsp;ChaTech&nbsp;connection will be huge as we look to expand revenue streams on UTC\u2019s side and find a whole new&nbsp;type&nbsp;of student&nbsp;to&nbsp;connect&nbsp;to the technology groups.&nbsp;ChaTech&nbsp;is&nbsp;a great forum to make sure the&nbsp;entire community is aligning&nbsp;with&nbsp;what we\u2019re trying to do.\u201d&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Farnsworth&nbsp;envisions a UTC&nbsp;community partnership&nbsp;with&nbsp;a&nbsp;cybersecurity curriculum&nbsp;provided&nbsp;to students who can then start to work and&nbsp;remain living in&nbsp;the area.&nbsp;Fashioning&nbsp;that pipeline of students&nbsp;and enhancing that skill set, with diversity a&nbsp;vital&nbsp;component, will help&nbsp;create&nbsp;the next layer of IT employees, she explains.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Near and dear to&nbsp;Farnsworth&nbsp;is the use of data.&nbsp;She is&nbsp;eager to&nbsp;change&nbsp;views&nbsp;around data and the potential to pull it all together.&nbsp;\u201cWe have to&nbsp;bring&nbsp;together all these different data sources to see what we can learn about students\u2019&nbsp;success,\u201d Farnsworth says,&nbsp;\u201cand thinking&nbsp;more broadly, how do&nbsp;we help people manage their groups better and lead their organizations?&nbsp;There should be this beauty in management dashboards where every unit&nbsp;and&nbsp;every dean&nbsp;have&nbsp;a layer on their&nbsp;dashboard where they can look at all of their employees&nbsp;and make connections.\u201d&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As the pandemic entered&nbsp;its second year, Farnsworth&nbsp;sees&nbsp;light at the end of the tunnel.&nbsp;\u201cNow&nbsp;that we\u2019re almost on the other side of this,\u201d she says, \u201cwe have to&nbsp;get out of the operational mode and start to look forward to the things&nbsp;I&nbsp;was&nbsp;hired to bring to&nbsp;UTC.&nbsp;It\u2019s&nbsp;not&nbsp;just&nbsp;about networking and desktops. 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