UW-IT News

As the holiday season ramps up, so do online scams targeting universities. We’re seeing a notable increase in fraudulent emails, texts, and phone calls aimed at students, faculty, staff, and medical personnel. These attempts can be highly convincing and often mimic supervisors, campus departments, job recruiters, or trusted companies.

Payroll and UW-IT recently partnered on an important update that changes how long former employees can log into Workday to view their electronic tax documents and past pay slips.

On a clear night in the Northwest, you can easily spot Orion’s belt or the Big Dipper peeking over the horizon — a seemingly unchanged sky that untold generations have observed for millennia.
In reality, stars are born, die and explode into supernovae right before our eyes, practically all the time. We just can’t see these changes happening in our daily lives.

As part of ongoing improvements to computing infrastructure, UW-IT will remove older and unsupported hardware at the UW Tower Data Center — decommissioning existing routers and replacing them with modern dual edge routers.

When the University of Washington selected Workday a decade ago to manage payroll and other critical tasks under Human Resources, accessibility experts determined the application needed more work to make it more functional for people with disabilities.