September 28, 2007

'Walking Into a River of Alligators'

By BROCK READ

Few campus officials have stepped into harder jobs this year than J. Brice Bible. In April he left the University of Tennessee at Knoxville to become chief information officer at Ohio University, whose information-technology department was reeling from a string of all-too-public security breaches and snafus that cost several staff members their jobs.

"I was literally walking into a river of alligators," says Mr. Bible in a new interview with Computerworld, "but that's not always a bad