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Student organizations and outside businesses will be required to install their own Wi-Fi service in order to maintain compliance with new credit card industry regulations.

Student Groups Required To Install Own Wi-Fi

By Emma Kotfica March 24, 2017

Student organizations and outside businesses on campus accepting credit card payments will be required to provide their own Wi-Fi service next year to maintain compliance with credit card industry-imposed...

GU Transitions From Blackboard

By Elisabeth Neylan September 23, 2016

Professors have been transitioning to Canvas – an alternative to learning management system Blackboard – after the university made the system available to all professors for this Fall. Current students...

UIS Plans Five-Year Wi-Fi Overhaul

By William Zhu September 16, 2016

Georgetown University Information Services is planning a five-year campus-wide Wi-Fi infrastructure overhaul that will cost $20-25 million starting in spring 2017 to combat aging Wi-Fi equipment in various...

University to Replace Blackboard, Implement New Technology Initiatives

By Tala al Rajjal May 5, 2016

Georgetown will introduce Canvas as its new learning management system in the fall semester and eventually replace Blackboard in an effort to improve the university’s technology infrastructure, among...

University Acknowledges Hacking Attempt

By William Zhu April 8, 2016

Georgetown’s Wi-Fi outage on March 31 was the result of a cyberattack launched against the university, according to interim Vice President and Chief Information Officer of UIS Judd Nicholson. Nicholson...

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Wi-Fi Outages Linked to Georgetown Software Bug

By William Zhu March 1, 2016

A software bug in the Georgetown University firewall caused its Wi-Fi network to experience widespread and sporadic service interruptions on campus starting Feb. 22. Cisco, the manufacturer of the...

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