UO Does Duo
About 1,800 UO employees are already using Duo, including IT staff and Banner users.
This project aims to enroll the remaining 12,000 or so employees—including faculty, staff, graduate employees, and student employees—during winter and spring terms. For now, Duo enrollment is voluntary, though we strongly encourage you to enroll as soon as possible. In the next couple of months, we will announce a date after which two-step login will become mandatory.
You can enroll yourself by following these
instructions. If you're contacted by IT staff in your area asking you to enroll in Duo during a particular time frame, please heed their recommendations.
Students who aren't UO employees will be enrolled in a future phase of the project.
Support Network
This effort is made possible by
strategic funding recommended by the university's Budget Advisory Group. In planning this rollout, we have worked with President Michael Schill, Provost and Senior Vice President Patrick Phillips, the Academic Leadership Team, the IT Steering Committee, and campus IT directors, and we'll be meeting with University Senate leadership in the coming weeks.
Because logging in to web services is such a fundamental aspect of nearly everything we do here, some people may be concerned about how two-step login will impact them. The university and Information Services are committed to working with IT staff throughout the UO to minimize any impacts and ensure a smooth rollout.
Enhancing IT Infrastructure
All of these strategic changes help us enhance IT infrastructure to ensure academic excellence—one of UO's institutional priorities—while efficiently stewarding limited resources. Fundamentally, IT is here to enable learning, teaching, and research—and to protect those endeavors from unnecessary disruption.
Thank you for your cooperation as we launch Duo. We look forward to taking this big step forward together.
Sincerely,
Jessie Minton
Vice Provost for Information Services and Chief Information Officer