During Tuesday’s Faculty Senate meeting, discussion aimed toward the new multifactor authentication (MFA) enrollment — a new system for UI account logins. MFA differs from the current system by requiring a secondary electronic device or application to verify a person’s account login, in addition to their password.
UI, in partnership with Duo Security, will begin using MFA for all faculty, staff and student university accounts. Enrollment for MFA is open now.
MFA will be implemented by UI in attempt to further protect all accounts.
Faculty Sen. Terry Grieb expressed complaints regarding his personal experience with the enrollment process. ASUI Representative to the Faculty Senate Jesse Watson said he has heard many complaints from students around campus regarding the implementation of the MFA.
Faculty Senate Chair Patrick Hrdlicka said there will be information and help provided during a meeting at 1 p.m. today in the Aurora room of the Idaho Commons.
In addition to MFA, the senate discussed issues regarding campus morale.
Dale Pietrzak, UI director of institutional effectiveness and accreditation, detailed the results of the Great Colleges to Work for survey. According to Hrdlicka, these reports and surveys were aimed at addressing morale issues around campus. The Faculty Senate is tasked with creating a cascading plan to address these issues.
Pietrzak presented a brief overview of the differences between the 2016 and 2017 survey results and responses. Pietrzak noted a decrease in professional development from “good” to “fair.” According to Pietrzak, there was an increase regarding the responses to shared governance. Responses moved from “poor” to “needs attention.” Another increase Pietrzak said was in senior leadership, which shifted from “poor” to “needs attention.”
Faculty, administration and staff relations remained nearly the same between the two surveys, Pietrzak said. Hrdlicka noted there were stark differences between faculty and staff’s responses to questions compared to the responses of the administration. Hrdlicka said the difference in responses was disappointing and a wakeup call.
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