July 4, 2003

U. of Maryland Technology Chief Resigns as Campus Shifts Priorities

By BROCK READ

Donald R. Riley, the University of Maryland at College Park's first and only chief information officer, has resigned after a review of his office's five-year record suggested that his involvement in several national information-technology efforts was obscuring the university's internal needs.

Mr. Riley will remain at Maryland as a professor of business and an adviser to the university's president, C.D. Mote Jr., on national technology issues. He will receive the salary of a chief