He has been with UAB since 2015
and, under his leadership, the university
has had over 420 ‘wins’. Carver defines
a ‘win’ as a concern raised by the
community, which is met with solutions
that are validated as successful by staff
and students, while in line with the
strategic plan. Averaging around 100
wins a year, Carver could not begin to
list all of the achievements, but shared
with us some from the 2017 and 2018
reports. This year marks the university’s
50th anniversary, which has seen the
University of Alabama at Birmingham
ranked number one amongst young—
Dr Curtis Carver,
Vice President and Chief Information Officer“ When I started
in 2015, it took
us about 800
minutes to close
out a phishing
attack. Today
we do it in 11”
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