Stories, updates, and announcements from UT Austin's Enterprise Technology team — the people and projects building the university's technology future.
Matt Meyer joins Enterprise Technology on May 4th as our new Associate Vice President for Enterprise Initiatives & Instructional Technology — leading Canvas LMS, instructional design, learning spaces, digital accessibility, and faculty engagement across UT Austin.
Cole Camplese has been named the FY25-26 Administrator of the Year by the Senate of College Councils, recognizing his commitment to student-centered technology including Canva for Campus, printing credits, and Digital IDs.
Six UT Austin alumni — including NASA's Chief Flight Director — powered the Artemis II mission around the Moon. Their success is a reminder of why the work of supporting a research university with the right infrastructure, tools, and technology actually matters.
New research from IDEO makes the case that AI-era growth depends on human strengths — creativity, insight, growth mindset, psychological safety, and a culture of change. Here's how ET is building those capabilities at UT Austin, and why point five is the one we all have to own.
The second annual Responsible AI for Education convening brings students, faculty, staff, and experts together on April 21 at the Texas Union for panels, workshops, and a keynote conversation between Cole Camplese and James P. Frazee of San Diego State University.
Four free, instructor-led Copilot training sessions run every Tuesday in April from 3–4 p.m. CST, covering everything from Copilot Chat fundamentals to building AI agents in SharePoint — open to all UT Austin faculty and staff.
Enterprise Technology's Mario Guerra is coordinating UT Austin's new AI Advisory Committee — a 15-member body of faculty, students, and university officials tasked with governing how AI tools are deployed, evaluated, and kept trustworthy for the entire campus community.
UT Austin is going digital with university IDs. The Longhorn Card is heading toward its final form — and the timeline for getting there is already in motion.
OpenClaw went from a one-hour side project to enterprise infrastructure in eight weeks. What NVIDIA's NemoClaw announcement at GTC tells us about where AI agents are headed — and the governance questions higher education needs to start asking now.
OpenClaw went from one developer's weekend project to NVIDIA's GTC keynote in eight weeks. That pace is the point — and it raises a governance question that higher education IT hasn't fully answered yet.
Anthropic's new study on AI assistance and coding skills found that developers who delegated to AI rather than engaging with it critically retained significantly less. For higher education IT organizations building and maintaining complex systems, the findings raise hard questions about workforce development and tool deployment.
New data from the Anthropic Economic Index shows Texas ranked 24th nationally in AI adoption, with a usage index of 0.76x — below expected. But the pattern of use tells a different story: Texans are reaching for AI primarily to learn and teach. That should matter to us.
Marta Lang has spent over 13 years building the Identity and Access Management team at UT Austin — first as a Project Manager, now as Team Lead. She talks about what drew her to UT, why building consensus is the hardest part of management, and what she tells every new employee starting out.