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There’s nothing particularly unusual about forgetting a university password. What makes the University of Utah’s Campus Information Services portal frustrating is that a password isn’t always the problem. You might enter the correct credentials and get stuck waiting for Duo. You might reset your password successfully, only to discover that another university application keeps rejecting…

There’s a particular kind of frustration that comes with college administration. You spend an hour planning next semester’s classes. You find the right sections, avoid scheduling conflicts, and arrange everything around work. Then registration opens. You sign in to Utah CIS, try to enroll, and discover there’s a hold on your account. Suddenly, the schedule…

Getting paid is one thing. Understanding exactly what happened to your paycheck is another. You know your salary. You know how many hours you worked. And you have a rough idea of how much money should arrive in your bank account. Then payday comes, and the deposit is smaller than expected. Maybe federal withholding increased….

Changing the bank account where your paycheck arrives sounds like a five-minute administrative task. You open your employee portal, update the account information, save the changes, and move on. Except payroll systems don’t necessarily work that quickly. At the University of Utah, employees can manage direct deposit information through Campus Information Services, better known as…

The University of Utah has plenty of online systems, and figuring out which one handles a particular task isn’t always obvious. You have Canvas for coursework, UMail for university communications, separate tools for timekeeping, and various departmental applications that seem to have their own rules. Then there’s Campus Information Services, usually called CIS. For students,…