ITS Leadership Academy
The 2022-23 inaugural Leadership Academy included five sessions at each of the UNK, UNL, UNO campuses. It included individual leadership development and NU ITS organizational development. The second cohort completed its session in 2023-2024. More will be shared about the upcoming 2025 initiatives and how to sign up or nominate others. Participants are selected by the NU ITS Senior Leadership Team.
Rick Fredericks Awards
Outstanding Leadership in a Collaborative Effort Award
The NU ITS Rick Fredericks Award for Outstanding Leadership in a Collaborative Effort This award is presented to an individual NU ITS staff member who utilized a thoughtful, collaborative approach in their work.
Past recipients include:
- 2023 - Shawn Aguirre for his work on the Cybersecurity Interest Group
- 2022 - Neil Brown for his leadership throughout the unified network project
- 2021 - Jay Killion for his extraordinarily collaborative approach to project management
- 2020 - Phil Redfern for his efforts in endpoint management
- 2019 - Cheryl O’Dell for her work in cross-campus cybersecurity awareness and engagement with the Cybersecurity Escape Room
- 2018 - Jeremy Van Hof for his efforts leading the Canvas initiative
2024 Awardee: Ryan Rumbaugh for leading the Two-Factor Authentication project
Outstanding Collaborative Project Award
The NU ITS Rick Fredericks Award for Outstanding Collaborative Project award is presented to a project that was successful due to its cross-campus collaboration within ITS and/or with external ITS stakeholders.
Past recipients include:
- 2023 - Yuja and Oracle Exadata Hardware Upgrade Projects
- 2022 - The Unified Network Project
- 2021 - DUO Two-Factor Authentication Project
- 2020 - Canvas Push to Gradebook Project
- 2019 - University Wide Area Network Project
- 2018 - VOIP Project
2024 Awardee: Endpoint Management Training