Please be cautious when responding to phone calls from the 809, 876 or 284 area codes. These area codes are associated with fraudulent pay-per-call operators. The email messages circulating on this topic are not entirely accurate as they exaggerate the per minute rate charge of calling these area codes.

Additional information on this topic is available at the AT&T website

ITS is pleased to welcome Charles Murray as the new Director of the Administrative Systems team starting on September 1st.

Charles comes to us with a strong background in applications development, enterprise Oracle databases, project management, data warehousing and reporting. The breadth of his experience is impressive -- along the way he has variously served as an Oracle trainer, database administrator, developer/programmer and manager of software development projects and teams. In his current position as Director of Software Development at the Odyssey Logistics and Technology Corporation he leads a team of seven developer/programmers and four testers in Charlotte and Kiev, Ukraine. Charles' love of and commitment to higher education and the liberal arts spans his entire career and was quite evident during his campus interviews.

As part of introducing Charles to the campus we will be stopping by campus offices for a more personal introduction. In the meantime, please join us in extending a warm Davidson welcome to Charles.

This Saturday morning (8/30) beginning at 12:01 a.m. our Internet Service Provider, NC-REN (the North Carolina Research and Education Network) is performing major maintenance on the communications equipment into which all Charlotte area colleges and universities connect.

Because of this maintenance, we expect the campus to be without Internet access on August 30, between 12:01 a.m. and 6:00 a.m.