Technology Magazine March 2019 | Page 354

BOISE STATE UNIVERSITY
354 fair amount of chaos .” To solve this , over the past year Bolt and his committee co-chair , Boise ’ s Dean of Extended Studies , have put together a list of large development projects . The system has added structure , Bolt explains that “ getting that framework put into place has been a good thing . It ’ s been a year-long process to get that set up and I think we ’ ll benefit from that . So will the university . Because we ’ re working on their goals . Not necessarily our goals . And that ’ s hugely beneficial to all parties .”
“ It ’ s great that we have a scope for what we want to deliver , an area we want to deliver to , and a partner in a particular school on campus that ’ s willing to work with us ,” he says . Bolt ’ s team is currently in the procurement phase . Hoping to learn from their experiences with AWS , Bolt estimates “ we ’ ll shorten that process from 18 months down to a four-or-five-month process . We ’ ve learned a lot , and I think we ’ ve learned how to partner better with areas on campus to expedite things like this . So , we ’ re hoping to have a technology and a path chosen by early summer .
MARCH 2019