Student Services

For Day Students

Academic Outreach

The Academic Outreach (AO) department provides comprehensive services that support Indiana Tech students’ academic achievement from the point of their admission through degree completion. Among the services offered are: tutoring programs and academic skills development, TRiO program services, support for students with disabilities and academic coaching with special emphasis on advising services for first year students.

Academic coaches work in conjunction with program faculty advisors to assist students in making decisions about major areas of study. First-year students are assigned an academic coach who will offer personalized, one-on-one support in areas such as course selection, choice of major and understanding the program curriculum. Each student will develop an academic plan that will guide their academic journey from enrollment to graduation. Coaches will also provide the following services:

General education advising
Academic resources and services
Major and minor options
Intended major changes
Graduation requirements
Academic probation advising

Tutoring

Indiana Tech provides peer to peer tutoring in a variety of subjects and is free of charge to registered students. Students utilizing the tutoring services are asked to bring their books are encouraged to bring their books, notes, and laptops (if needed) to their tutoring appointments. Students are invited to study in the tutoring center and if they need study strategy assistance a staff member is available to assist them. Tutoring is available Monday through Thursday, 9 a.m. to 9 p.m., Friday from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., and Sunday 7 to 9 p.m. The tutoring center is located in the Academic Outreach Office in the Andorfer Commons.

Library Services

The McMillen Library is located in the west wing of the Academic Center. The two story facility includes a main reading room, library offices and technically enhanced spaces for collaborative learning. It is named after Dale W. McMillen, who donated the first library building on the campus in 1962. McMillen Library provides convenient access to resources for faculty/ student instruction and research. The library contains about 15,000 books, media and periodicals supporting the academic programs. Access to electronic books, databases and subject guides is provided. The Ray E. Broshar Career Resource Center is also housed in the library. Open seven days a week, professional librarians and paraprofessional staff are available to assist people at each stage of research via email, phone or in-person.

Career Services

The Career Center prepares students and alumni for professional and personal success by providing advising, programs and activities related to self-assessment, career exploration and job search preparation. Services include personal skills/interest inventory assessment and counseling, career exploration, internships, professional development guidance, job fairs, etiquette training, networking events and an on-campus interviewing program. Employment opportunities are posted for full-time, internship, part-time and summer job openings.

The Career Center provides extensive guidance and assistance in job search strategies and resources, resume preparation, interviewing skills, mock interviews and assessing job offers. Guiding students in appropriate professional business practices is an underlying theme for all Career Center services and is designed to provide a foundation for lifelong career strategy skills.

Visit careercenter.IndianaTech.edu, call 800.937.2448, ext. 2217, or email careercenter@IndianaTech.edu.

Information Technology Services

Indiana Tech is committed to providing students a level of technological competency that will meet or exceed the needs of employers who hire our graduates. By graduation, depending on the degree program, a student will have competency on various types of computers and software. Due to the changing nature of technology, our curriculum emphasizes becoming productive with common hardware and software concepts rather than a particular brand of computer or software package.

In order to support this integration and to encourage the use of technology, Indiana Tech provides a variety of computing facilities for its faculty and students. With approximately 434 student computers at 16 locations, our primary facilities are well equipped for the utilization of technology both in and out of the classroom. Our continuing commitment to technology improvements is an important piece of our academic programs.

Information Technology Services (ITS) is responsible for computers, phones, networks and classroom technology at all Indiana Tech sites. Your student network account is administered and maintained through this service area. To retrieve your network account for the first time, reset your password, submit a technology support request, or to just learn more about the services provided, please visit ITS.IndianaTech.edu.

Activate your student account - its.IndianaTech.edu/self-help/
Retrieve lost password - its.IndianaTech.edu/self-help/
Student email - outlook.office365.com
Access Your Academic Records - my.IndianaTech.edu
Blackboard - blackboard.IndianaTech.edu

For assistance with technology matters, please contact the ST@T Help Desk at 260.399.2858 or 800.937.2448, ext. 2369

Indiana Tech’s Office 365 Services

Indiana Tech provides software and cloud-based services using Microsoft’s Office 365. This subscription provides services which may be useful across all facets of your academic career. Please review the summary of services below to see how they can assist with your academic success at Indiana Tech.

Email/Calendar/Contacts: If you have ever used Outlook, this will look very familiar. Nearly all the same functions are available, including being able to schedule meetings with other students for projects, keeping a list of your contacts and keeping your personal and class schedules readily available in one place. Of course, all these items will synchronize with smartphones, iPhones, iPads and other mobile devices.
Cloud Storage (OneDrive): OneDrive is a file hosting service which allows students to upload and sync files to cloud storage and then access them from a web browser or their local device. In addition, this product allows users to keep the files private, share them with contacts, or make the files publicly available. The service offers 25 GB of free personal storage for students.
Microsoft Office Online: These are online companions to Microsoft PowerPoint, Word, Excel and OneNote. It provides a smart way to get work done outside of class with basic functionality available in the above products. Even better, with office web apps and OneDrive working together, you can work collaboratively with group projects since you can share these documents with your classmates.
Microsoft Office ProPlus: This is the full office suite of software available to all students who are taking a class at Indiana Tech. Once your account is activated, log into the Microsoft Office 365 website, download and install the software on your personal computer. With the current licensing plan, students can install Microsoft Office on up to five computers. Licenses expire upon graduating from the university or when you are no longer taking classes at Indiana Tech.

Campus Acceptable Use Computing Policy

Access to Indiana Tech’s computer systems and network is a privilege and not a right. As such, access to computer systems and a network owned or operated by Indiana Tech imposes certain responsibilities and obligations and is granted subject to university policies, as well as local, state, and federal laws. Acceptable use is always ethical, reflects academic honesty, and shows restraint in the consumption of shared resources. It demonstrates respect for intellectual property, ownership of data, system security mechanisms, and individuals’ rights to privacy and to freedom from intimidation and harassment.

Guidelines

In making acceptable use of resources you must:

Use resources only for authorized purposes.
Protect your username and system from unauthorized use. You are responsible for all activities on your username or that originate from your system.
Access only information that is your own, that is publicly available, or to which you have been given authorized access.
Use only legal versions of copyrighted software in compliance with vendor license requirements.
Use only legally obtained versions of sound recordings and movies downloaded from the network or internet.
Be considerate in your use of shared resources. Refrain from monopolizing systems, overloading networks with excessive data, degrading services, or wasting computer time, connect time, disk space, printer paper, manuals, or other resources.

In making acceptable use of resources you must not:

Use another person’s system, user ID, password, files, or data without permission.
Use computer programs to decode passwords or access control information.
Attempt to circumvent or subvert system or network security measures.
Engage in any activity that might be purposefully harmful to systems or to any information stored thereon, such as creating or propagating viruses, disrupting services, or damaging files or making unauthorized modifications to university data.
Use university systems for commercial or partisan political purposes, such as using electronic mail to circulate advertising for products or for political candidates.
Make or use illegal copies of copyrighted materials or software, store such copies on university systems, or transmit them over university networks.
Use mail or messaging services to harass or intimidate another person, for example, by broadcasting unsolicited messages, by repeatedly sending unwanted mail, or by using someone else’s name or username.
Waste computing resources or network resources; for example, by intentionally placing a program in an endless loop, printing excessive amounts of paper, or by sending chain letters or unsolicited mass mailings.
Use the university’s systems or networks for personal gain; for example, by selling access to your username or to university systems or networks, or by performing work for profit with university resources in a manner not authorized by the university.
- Engage in any other activity that does not comply with the General Principles presented above.

Enforcement

The university considers any violation of acceptable use principles or guidelines to be a serious offense and reserves the right to copy and examine any files or information residing on university systems or systems attached to the university network allegedly related to unacceptable use, and to protect its network from systems and events that threaten or degrade operations.

Violators are subject to disciplinary action as prescribed in the student handbook, Techniques. Offenders also may be prosecuted under laws including (but not limited to) the Communications Act of 1934 (amended), the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act of 1974, the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act of 1986, the Computer Virus Eradication Act of 1989, or Interstate Transportation of Stolen Property.

Information disclaimer

Individuals using computer systems owned by Indiana Tech do so subject to applicable laws and university policies. Indiana Tech disclaims any responsibility and/or warranties for information and materials residing on non-university systems or available over publicly accessible networks. Such materials do not necessarily reflect the attitudes, opinions, or values of Indiana Tech, its faculty, staff, or students. These guidelines should not be construed as a limit on any individual’s right under the Constitution of the United States.

For CPS (Evening and Online) Students

Warrior Information Network

The Warrior Information Network consolidates administrative services into one convenient resource. A phone call to 888.832.4742 will take care of most of your needs at the university, including:

Registrations
Class withdrawals
Tuition payments
Updates of personal information (name, address, e-mail, shipping address, etc.)
General financial aid information

There are three ways to contact the WIN:

E-mail: WIN@IndianaTech.edu
Telephone: 888.832.4742, from 8:30 a.m. to 7 p.m., Monday through Thursday; 8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m., Friday; and 8:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m., Saturday, with the exception of holidays
Fax: 260.424.4831 or toll-free 888.832.4844