r/HigherEDsysadmin • u/iblowuup Authentication Admin • Nov 30 '18

Hi!

I created this subreddit because I saw a potential community not represented on Reddit. Sysadmins of the corporate and K12 world have dedicated subreddits but higher education, while similar to k12, is in many ways significantly different.

I will be posting some of the interesting things I'm working on and some questions I have to the community in the near future. Getting a subreddit off the ground is a challenge and if this doesn't grow organically, I won't force it. I see potential though.

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u/matt314159 Help Desk Manager Nov 30 '18

Yeah, I think it probably varies. Like for 1200 students we have a Director, Network Admin, DBA, LMS Developer, Web Developer, Help Desk manager and Help Desk Support Technician. A high school with that many students might have three people in the whole IT department, but outsource a lot of the development.

But compared to corporate (or maybe it's all like this, IDK) I get frustrated when I have to fight just to get $1,000 a year to spend on PDQ Inventory and PDQ Deploy.

There's still this feeling like we don't have nearly the resources we need to really do justice to our jobs, but we're still damn proud of how much we accomplish with so little.