DIXIE STATE COLLEGE
INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY & ACADEMIC COMPUTING

Information technology:

  • Information Technology Support Services: Mary Stubbs, SCC, (435) 652-7954
  • Administrative Computing Support: Rob Snow, LIB, (435) 652-7620
  • System Administration/Webmaster:  Chris Mosteller, SCC 107, (435) 652-7930
  • Campus Networking: Lane Clark, SCC 107, (435) 652-7938
  • Center of Excellence for Computer Graphics: Eric Pedersen, UHB 328, (435) 652-7804
  • Instructional Technology Webmaster: Jared Johnson, SCC, (435) 652-7950
  • Short-Term Intensive Training, Non-Credit Computer Courses:  Jill Elliss, (435) 652-7751
  • Telecommunications:  Ken Richmond, SCC 107, (435) 652-7936

Academic computing: 

Director: Mary Stubbs
Office: SCC     (435) 652-7854
Email: stubbs@dixie.edu

Information Technology Support Services work cooperatively with academic departments to provide necessary services and to assist in providing innovative learning resources for students, faculty, staff and the community.

Dixie State College of Utah provides two open access labs (library basement and Smith Computer Center) and several additional computer equipped special use labs and classrooms.  The open access labs contain approximately 210 networked and stand alone workstations.  Full access to the Internet is available on all machines.  Limited printing is available to students free of charge.  Lab hours average 80 hours per week during the course of the semester including evening, weekend and holiday hours.  A somewhat restricted schedule is followed between semesters and during holidays.

Benefits extended to students in the labs are: a high-speed internet connection, E-Mail accounts, lab assistants who are willing to answer questions, state of the art equipment and scanner and a photo-quality color printer.

Programs available for students include: Microsoft Office Suite and Corel Office Suite, various programming languages and course related software.

Smith Computer Center

The Smith Computer Center is a facility which provides an innovative approach to both computer instruction and homework support on the Dixie State College of Utah campus.  Located in the Avenna Center complex on 700 East, the center houses approximately 225 computers and allows a variety of instruction options.  It is one of the open access labs referred to under Academic Computing.  The Smith Computer Center provides:

  • Self-paced computer courses which allow students flexibility in scheduling and the ability to move at their own pace.  These courses are fully instructor-supported and contain a set curriculum.  In addition, the center can provide individualized curriculum to meet specialty needs.  Look for courses in the CIS and COMP areas labeled as TBA.
  • Traditional lecture format courses which are taught in a controlled time frame and provide instructor-directed class formats.
  • Computer availability for students who need technology services to complete homework assignments and research for any course on campus.
  • The Smith Computer Center is open year-round.  Check at the facility for time schedule.

Instructional Technology Center

Director: Jared Johnson
Office: SSC (435) 652-7950
Email: johnson@dixie.edu

The Faculty Assistance Center is an instructional technology lab where many kinds of information resources are available to promote the educational growth of the faculty and staff at Dixie State College and to encourage excellence in teaching. The purposes for the center are:

  • To increase faculty and staff knowledge of current educational technologies
  • To provide training in the use of educational technologies.
  • To encourage sharing of innovative and effective instructional techniques and media.
  • To provide access to multimedia production equipment and software that may be unavailable elsewhere on campus.
  • To provide assistance in designing and producing instructional materials.

Faculty and staff members may use the facilities in the center to develop curriculum materials and to improve their computer skills.  The center is available for faculty and staff use from 8:00 AM - 5:00 PM Monday-Friday and is equipped with high-end multimedia computers (IBM-compatible and Macintosh) and software for producing instructional media using the latest instructional technologies.  All PCs are networked and connected to the Internet.

Faculty and staff members may use the center resources for consultation on design and development of instructional materials, producing instructional media (multimedia presentations, computer-based training, internet web pages, graphics, digital video, etc.), computer training (workshops, interactive self-paced learning, one-on-one tutoring, etc.) And to access technology-related reference materials (books, magazines, etc.)

There is no cost for faculty members to use the faculty assistance center except for minimal charges to cover consumable supplies, such as printer toner, paper and transparencies.