Thursday, September 20, 2001

Educause to Present 2001 Awards By MICHAEL BLASENSTEIN Educause, an association dedicated to promoting information technology as a means to improve higher education, will present its annual awards in October to individuals who have contributed to higher education through technology. The awards are in five categories: individual leadership, campus networking, teaching and learning, information-technology systems, and professional writing. INDIVIDUAL LEADERSHIP AWARDS (As part of these awards, Educause makes contributions to scholarship funds of the winners' choices in the amount of $5,000 for the Excellence in Leadership Award and $2,000 for Leadership in Information Technology.) Excellence in Leadership J. Gary Augustson, vice provost for information technology at Pennsylvania State University Leadership in Information Technology Carl F. Berger, director of advanced academic technologies at the Collaboratory for Advanced Research and Academic Technologies (CARAT) at the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor Carl W. Jacobson, director of management-information systems at the University of Delaware CAMPUS NETWORKING AWARDS Excellence in Campus Networking Bentley College, Waltham, Mass. (winner) Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Worcester, Mass. (honorable mention) TEACHING AND LEARNING AWARDS Systemic Progress in Teaching and Learning George Mason University, Fairfax, Va. State University of New York (all campuses) INFORMATION-TECHNOLOGY-SYSTEMS AWARDS Exemplary Practices in Information-Technology Solutions Interactive University Project at the University of California at Berkeley Student Technology Services at the University of Wisconsin at Milwaukee PROFESSIONAL WRITING AWARDS (The recipients share a $1,000 stipend.) Contribution of the Year An article featuring George Mason University's Technology Across the Curriculum program by Anne Scrivener Agee, executive director of instructional technology at George Mason, and Dee Ann Holisky, associate dean for academic programs of the College of Arts and Sciences at George Mason Easy-to-print version E-mail this article

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