Warren Arbogast
Founder and President
Boulder Management Group LLC
An artist, writer, and communications expert, Warren Arbogast's career started at the University of Virginia's Darden Graduate School of Business, where he developed the visual-communications program and taught in the first-year MBA program. Since then, he has consulted more than 200 colleges and universities throughout the world. In an article in The Chronicle of Higher Education, Mr. Arbogast's clients described him as a technology therapist and translator, and a Dutch higher-education group dubbed him the "Dr. Phil for IT," which he eventually took as a compliment. It has often been said that the value Mr. Arbogast brings to audiences and clients is helping them see the world differently, more clearly, and more creatively. His talks are about far more than education and technology; they are about dreaming, doing, and developing a passion for change. Mr. Arbogast appears regularly on The Chronicle of Higher Education's Tech Therapy.
Goldie Blumenstyk
Senior Writer
The Chronicle of Higher Education
In her nearly 20 years as a reporter and editor at The Chronicle of Higher Education, Goldie Blumenstyk has covered topics touching every corner of higher education: distance education, the Internet boom and bust, state politics, finance and management, fund raising, for-profit higher education, and technology transfer. She earned a B.A. from Colgate University and an M.A. from the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism. Before joining The Chronicle, she covered politics and government at The Orlando Sentinel, including a stint as city hall reporter.
Sarah Hardesty Bray
Senior Editor
The Chronicle of Higher Education
Sarah Hardesty Bray is a senior editor of The Chronicle of Higher Education, where she works in the Review section, commissioning and editing opinion articles on a wide range of issues concerning higher-education policy. Before joining The Chronicle in 1999, she was vice president of communications at the Council for Advancement and Support of Education in charge of media relations, government relations, periodicals and publications, awards, and other programs. She has also been a vice president at Hill and Knowlton, an international public-relations firm; a reporter at Forbes magazine; and an account executive at the advertising agency J. Walter Thompson. She is the co-author of "Success and Betrayal: The Crisis of Women in Corporate America" (Simon & Schuster, 1986). A graduate of Duke University, Ms. Bray also received a master's in journalism from Northwestern University.
Scott Carlson
Senior Reporter
The Chronicle of Higher Education
Scott Carlson has been a writer at The Chronicle of Higher Education since 1999, where he has covered technology, libraries, facilities, sustainability, and architecture. He has also written for the City Paper of Baltimore, the Baltimore Sun, Dwell, Preservation, the Utne Reader, and the Minneapolis Star Tribune. Mr. Carlson is a graduate of the University of Minnesota.
Beth Cate
Associate General Counsel
Indiana University
Beth Cate is associate general counsel for Indiana University and practices in a variety of areas, with emphases on intellectual property law and the law and ethics concerning research and the use of information technologies. Beth is also an adjunct member of the faculty in the university's School for Public and Environmental Affairs. Before joining the university in 1998, Beth served as in-house counsel for Eli Lilly and Company, practicing in a variety of areas; clerked for the Hon. S. Jay Plager of the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit; and practiced with the law firm of McKenna & Cuneo (now McKenna Long & Aldridge) in Washington D.C., focusing on civil litigation and international trade. Beth holds a B.A. in economics from The George Washington University and a J.D. from Harvard Law School, both with honors. She is a member of the National Association of College and University Attorneys (NACUA) and has served on NACUA's Continuing Legal Education Committee. She is currently serving on the Educause Identity Management Task Force.
Beth spends much of her spare time working with the Indianapolis Zoo, both as a member of the board of trustees and as a weekend volunteer helping to care for the Zoo's African elephants, including her adopted elephant daughter, Tombi. Beth tries to refrain from comparing the university setting to a zoo, but frequently fails.
Rebecca S. Chopp
President
Colgate University
Rebecca S. Chopp was named president of Colgate University on July 1, 2002. Since coming to Colgate, Chopp has overseen the development and implementation of an ambitious strategic plan that builds on the university's traditions and amplifies its commitment to leading the liberal arts in the 21st century. A graduate of the University of Chicago, in recent years her research and publication have focused on changing structures and cultures of higher education, on the role of liberal arts in democratic society, and on religion and higher education. Chopp currently serves on the board of the Association of American Colleges and Universities and the executive committee of the Annapolis Group. She is also a member of the board of trustees of the Carnegie Foundation for Teaching and serves on the national advisory board of the National Survey of Student Engagement.
Sayeed Choudhury
Associate Dean of University Libraries and Hodson Director of the Digital Research and Curation Center
Johns Hopkins University
G. Sayeed Choudhury is the associate dean for library digital programs and Hodson Director of the Digital Research and Curation Center at the Sheridan Libraries of Johns Hopkins University. He serves as principal investigator for projects funded through the National Science Foundation, Institute of Museum and Library Services, and the Mellon Foundation. He has oversight for the digital library activities and services provided by the Sheridan Libraries at Johns Hopkins University. Choudhury has published articles in the International Journal of Digital Curation, D-Lib, the Journal of Digital Information, and First Monday. He has served on committees for the Digital Curation Conference, Open Repositories, Joint Conference on Digital Libraries, and Web-Wise. He has presented at various conferences including Educause, CNI, DLF, ALA, and ACRL.
Michael Dame
Director of Web Communications
Virginia Tech
Michael Dame has been the director of web communications at Virginia Tech since 2005. He is responsible for managing the content, organization, and structure of the university's public Web presence.
Dame has nearly 20 years experience in media and Web communications, specializing in product and content development, writing for the Web, strategic planning, and general reporting and editing. From 1997 to 2005, with Orlando Sentinel Communications, he filled myriad roles - editor, executive producer, product manager - and was responsible for programming, development, and day-to-day operations of four award-winning Web sites, including OrlandoSentinel.com.
Dame began his career as a sports reporter for the Orlando Sentinel, covering the Florida Gators, NFL, NASCAR, and more. He is a former Heisman Trophy voter and Associated Press college football poll panelist.
Dame earned a bachelor's degree in journalism from the University of Florida, and an MBA from Rollins College in Winter Park, Fla.
Mitch Davis
Chief Information Officer
Bowdoin College
Mitch Davis joined Bowdoin four years ago to be its first chief information officer. He is in the process of transforming Bowdoin into one of the most technically advanced liberal arts college in the nation. Before coming to Bowdoin, he was one of the executive directors of ITSS at Stanford University, an associate dean and CIO for Stanford Law School, and the assistant dean for information technology at University of Oregon School of Law. He specializes in change management and quickly building highly effective, motivated, and talented IT departments, systems, and services.
He started working in higher education with the goal of creating a generation of faculty members and students who could effectively use the latest information technology in their research, teaching, and learning. He has promoted organizational change and emerging technology in education for over 12 years by acting as a consultant to universities, researchers, and faculty; speaking at seminars; sitting on education technology committees and business and government advisory boards; and by working with venture capitalists and businesses to create the software and hardware to deliver next-generation solutions.
Richard A. DeMillo
Dean and Distinguished Professor of Computing
Georgia Tech
Rich DeMillo is an inventor at heart who never strays far from the action. As dean of Georgia Tech's College of Computing, one of the highest ranking computer-science programs in the country, DeMillo encourages a focus beyond basic computer science to include areas such as robotics, security, supercomputing, nanotechnology, artificial intelligence, and human-computer interaction. His interdisciplinary efforts reflect just how embedded computing is in all industries and fields of research. For instance, DeMillo is immersing the College of Computing into the health industry as a crucial area where computing will create major breakthroughs.
DeMillo's inclusive approach doesn't end with research. Under his direction, the College of Computing is also a national leader in faculty diversity, employing one of the largest percentages of women in a computer-science program. DeMillo continues to direct the College of Computing into growth, demonstrating increases in renowned faculty, student enrollment, funding, as well as the construction of the new Klaus Advanced Computing Building.
Before joining the college in 2002, DeMillo was chief technology officer for Hewlett-Packard (HP), where he had worldwide responsibility for technology and technology strategy. Prior to HP, DeMillo was in charge of information and computer-sciences research at Telcordia Technologies. DeMillo has also directed the Computer and Computation Research division of the National Science Foundation and continues to be active in many aspects of the IT industry. He is a fellow of the ACM and the American Association for the Advancement of Science.
Cheryl A. Elzy
Dean of University Libraries
Illinois State University
Cheryl Asper Elzy currently serves as dean of university libraries at Illinois State University in Normal, Ill., where she manages the operations, services, collections, and programs of the 1.6 million-volume Milner Library. She came to Illinois State in 1981 to teach in the library-science program after serving on the faculty of Quincy College as assistant director of its library. Dean Elzy also served as director of the Chenoa Public Library and Gridley Public Library in the 1980s as part of a unique shared staffing program funded by the Illinois State Library in Springfield to bring professional librarians to small libraries.
Dean Elzy joined Milner Library's faculty in 1984, where she has held a number of increasingly responsible positions including head of the Education/Psychology/Teaching Materials Center Division, associate university librarian for personnel, and associate dean of university libraries. Professor Elzy was named interim dean of university libraries in 1996, and dean in 1998. She is active in the American Library Association, the Library Administration and Management Association, the Illinois Library Association, and the Council of Directors of State University Libraries in Illinois.
Dean Elzy earned three degrees at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, including two advanced degrees from the Graduate School of Library and Information Science. She has published in the fields of reference-services evaluation, evaluation of collections, end-user studies of reference databases, and in children's-literature research. More recently, Dean Elzy's research has focused on issues surrounding the illegal downloading of copyrighted songs, movies, videos, and games on college campuses.
Josh Fischman
Senior Editor
The Chronicle of Higher Education
Josh Fischman supervises technology and science coverage for The Chronicle of Higher Education as a senior editor. He has written about attempts to reinvent the Internet, emergency-alert systems, and teaching classes using blogs, tablet PCs, and cellphones. Previously he was a senior writer and editor at U.S News & World Report, editor-in-chief at Earth, deputy news editor at Science, and a senior editor at Discover. He has won the Blakeslee Award for excellence in medical reporting, and has been a finalist for the National Magazine Awards. He is the author of the leading medical-education guidebook, "The U.S. News & World Report Ultimate Guide to Medical Schools" (Sourcebooks, 2006).
Jan I. Fox
Senior Vice President for Information Technology and CIO
Marshall University
As senior vice President for information technology and CIO, Jan Fox's responsibilities include the planning and integration of information technology into all aspects of education, administration and research at Marshall University. Her principal management responsibilities include computing services, telecommunications, libraries, distributed education, and technology outreach.
Her teaching and research interests include epidemiology, rural broadband deployment, and the promotion of technology in postsecondary education. As a special assistant to West Virginia Governor Wise, Dr. Fox consulted and assisted the Governor with important statewide technology issues that have contributed to the state's economic development, job creation, strategic planning, e-government, and statewide infrastructure development. She serves on several national committees including the Southern Region Electronic Campus Underserved Communities and the Southern Growth Policy Technology Committee.
Fox has a doctorate in higher-education administration from West Virginia University and is a tenured faculty member in the Marshall University School of Medicine.
Richard Garrett
Program Director and Senior Research Analyst
Eduventures
Richard Garrett is program director and senior analyst serving Eduventures' Learning Collaborative program for online higher education. Eduventures is a research and consulting company based in Boston, specializing in education. Prior to joining Eduventures, Richard was deputy director of the Observatory on Borderless Higher Education in the United Kingdom. His work has focused on higher-education trends worldwide, particularly online learning, internationalization, and commercial activity. Publications include "Understanding the National Online Higher Education Market" (Eduventures, 2007), "E-Learning in Tertiary Education - Where Do We Stand?" (OECD, 2005), and "The Global Education Index 2005" (OBHE, 2005).
Jim Gibson
Visiting Associate Professor of Law, University of Virginia
Associate Professor of Law, University of Richmond
Jim Gibson teaches intellectual property and cyberlaw at the University of Richmond and is currently visiting at the University of Virginia. His first encounter with the tension between intellectual property and the university came when he worked on a dispute between publishers and a copy shop that made course packs for college professors. He went on to become involved in the file-sharing wars, first as a litigator and then as a professor and author of two amicus briefs in the Supreme Court's Grokster case. As founder of Richmond's Intellectual Property Institute, he created IP-related educational materials for college students, most notably the short documentary "What Do You Think?." His research has been published in the Yale Law Journal and he is frequently quoted in the media, including The New York Times, The National Law Journal, and The Chronicle of Higher Education.
Lonnie Harvel
Vice President for Educational Technology and CIO
Georgia Gwinnett College
Lonnie Harvel is the vice president for educational technology and CIO at Georgia Gwinnett College. Prior to coming to Georgia Gwinnett College, Dr. Harvel was a senior research scientist in the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) at the Georgia Institute of Technology. He was the director of the Digital Media Lab in ECE, the associate director of the Center for Distributed Engineering Education at Georgia Tech, and an affiliate member of the Graphics, Visualization and Usability Center, also at Georgia Tech. His current research includes the development of distributed education architectures and applications, mobile interaction, telepresence, context-analysis systems, and context-based content filtering. He received his BFA in theater and his MS in computer science from the University of Georgia and his Ph.D. in computer science from Georgia Tech.
Henry Jenkins
Director of the Comparative Media Studies Program
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Henry Jenkins is the co-director of the MIT Comparative Media Studies Program and the Peter de Florez Professor of Humanities. He is the author and/or editor of 12 books on various aspects of media and popular culture, including "Convergence Culture: Where Old and New Media Collide," "Fans, Bloggers and Gamers: Exploring Participatory Culture," "The Wow Climax: Tracing the Emotional Impact of Popular Culture," Textual Poachers: Television Fans and Participatory Culture," "Hop on Pop: The Politics and Pleasures of Popular Culture," and "From Barbie to Mortal Kombat: Gender and Computer Games." Jenkins writes regularly about media and cultural change at his blog, henryjenkins.org. He is one of the principal investigators for The Education Arcade, a consortium of educators and business leaders working to promote the educational use of computer and video games, and of the Knight Center for Future Civic Media, a joint effort with the MIT Media Lab to use new media to enhance how people live in local communities. He is one of the principal investigators for GAMBIT, a lab focused on promoting experimentation through game design, and of Project nml, a MacArthur Foundation-funded project that develops curricular materials focused on promoting the social skills and cultural competencies needed to become a full participant in the new-media era. Jenkins has an M.A. in communication studies from the University of Iowa and a Ph.D. in communication arts from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Stephen J. Kopp
President
Marshall University
Dr. Stephen J. Kopp became the 36th president of Marshall University on July 1, 2005. Prior to his arrival at Marshall, he served as the founding dean of the College of Allied Health Professions at Midwestern University, the Herbert H. and Grace A. Dow College of Health Professions at Central Michigan University, and the provost of Ohio University.
In addition to serving as Marshall's president, Dr. Kopp also co-chairs the WV Vision Shared Intellectual Infrastructure Committee with West Virginia First Lady Gayle Manchin, and serves on the boards of the Huntington Chamber of Commerce, the Huntington Area Development Council, the Huntington Museum of Art, the Marshall Artists Series, Advantage Valley, the West Virginia Roundtable, and the Mid-Atlantic Technology, Research and Innovation Center (MATRIC).
President Kopp earned his B.S. at the University of Notre Dame majoring in Biology and his Ph.D. at the University of Illinois at Chicago (formerly the University of Illinois at the Medical Center) in the field of physiology and biophysics. He has published extensively in peer-reviewed journals, authoring more than 100 scientific papers and abstracts, and has been very proficient in acquiring grant funding. He has been a pioneer in technology-based, applied biomedical research and has successfully led the development of new grant-funded research programs.
Roderick J. McDavis
President
Ohio University
Roderick J. McDavis is the 20th president of Ohio University. A native of Dayton, Ohio, he received a bachelor's degree in social sciences in secondary education from Ohio University in 1970, making him only the second university alumnus to lead the university as president. He received a master's degree in student-personnel administration from the University of Dayton in 1971, and a doctorate in counselor education and higher-education administration from the University of Toledo in 1974.
Prior to joining Ohio University, Dr. McDavis served as provost and vice president for academic affairs and professor of education at Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond, Va. He has served as chair of the board of directors of the American Association of Colleges for Teacher Education (AACTE). He has authored or co-authored chapters in books, monographs, and articles in professional journals and other publications. He has served as a consultant and keynote speaker for universities, community colleges, public school systems, human-service agencies, professional associations, community organizations, and churches.
Steven J. McDonald
General Counsel
Rhode Island School of Design
Steven J. McDonald is general counsel at the Rhode Island School of Design and previously served as associate legal counsel at The Ohio State University. He has handled a number of Internet-related legal matters, ranging from alleged infringements of copyrighted materials on student Web pages to investigations of computer break-ins to an e-mail death threat to Socks the Cat. He began his legal career in private practice at Jones, Day, Reavis & Pogue, where he represented CompuServe in Cubby v. CompuServe, the first online libel case, and he also has taught courses in Internet law at Ohio State's College of Law and at Capital University Law School. He is a fellow and past member of the board of directors of the National Association of College and University Attorneys and is the editor of NACUA's "The Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act: A Legal Compendium." In State, ex rel. Thomas v. The Ohio State University, the Ohio Supreme Court ruled that he really is a lawyer. He received his A.B. from Duke University and his J.D. from Yale Law School.
Stewart McLaurin
Executive Vice President of Education Affairs
The Motion Picture Association of America, Inc.
Stewart McLaurin leads the education initiatives and outreach programs for the Motion Picture Association of America, Inc.
Prior to joining MPAA, McLaurin served as chief of staff to the president of Georgetown University and as chief of staff to Elizabeth Dole at the American Red Cross. In addition, McLaurin has considerable communications and public affairs experience, having served in positions across diverse sectors including the federal government, health care, and nonprofit organizations.
Mark David Milliron
President and CEO
Catalyze Learning International
Dr. Mark David Milliron is an award-winning leader, author, speaker, and consultant best known for exploring leadership development, future trends, learning strategies, and the human side of technology change. Mark works with universities, community colleges, K-12 schools, corporations, associations, and government agencies across the country and around the world. He serves as board chair for the Institute for the Study of Knowledge Management in Education and as a trustee for Western Governors University. He is also the founder and CEO of the private consulting and service group, Catalyze Learning International (CLI). In addition, he serves on numerous corporate, nonprofit, and education boards and advisory groups; guest lectures for educational institutions nationally and internationally; and authors and moderates the Catalytic Conversations Blog. Mark brings to this work broad experience, having previously served as an endowed fellow, senior lecturer, and director of the National Institute of Staff and Organizational Development in the College of Education at The University of Texas at Austin; vice president for education and medical practice with SAS, the world's largest private software company; president and CEO of the international education association the League for Innovation; and as vice president for academic and student services at Mayland Community College (NC).
Barry Mills
President
Bowdoin College
Barry Mills was inaugurated as Bowdoin's 14th president in October 2001 as the college was beginning its 200th academic year.
During his tenure as president, Mills has underscored the primacy of Bowdoin's academic program and has worked with the faculty to redefine a liberal-arts education for the twenty-first century. Mills has also emphasized sustainability efforts at the college and the need to build Bowdoin's endowment in support of the academic program and student financial aid.
President Mills, who holds a doctorate in biology as well as a law degree, previously served as the deputy presiding partner of Debevoise & Plimpton in New York City, one of the nation's preeminent international law firms.
Tracy Mitrano
Director of IT Policy and Computer Policy and Law Programs
Cornell University
Tracy Mitrano is the director of IT policy and computer policy and law programs for the Office of Information Technologies at Cornell. Elected to the Educause Board in 2006, she will take her seat as its treasurer in January 2007. Mitrano is a 2002 graduate of the Frye Institute, and since then a member of its faculty, chair of Internet 2 InCommon Steering Committee, and from 2004-2006 the co-chair of the Internet 2/Educause Security Task Force, Law and Policy Team.
A member of the 2005 Educause Program Committee, Mitrano is also a faculty member of the Educause Leadership Institute and co-facilitator of the Seminars on Academic Computing. In 2003 the University of Iowa named her the Ada Stoflet Lecturer. In spring 2005, Mitrano taught an Internet Law class for the MiNE Program at the Universita Cattolica in Piacenza, Italy.
At Cornell, Mitrano is an adjunct assistant professor in the Information Science Program where she teaches Information Science 515, "Culture, Law and Politics of the Internet."
Brian T. Nichols, CISSP, CISM, CISA, CIA
Chief IT Security and Policy Officer
Louisiana State University
Brian Nichols is the chief IT security and policy officer, reporting to the chief information officer, at Louisiana State University. Nichols advises the CIO and university administration on technology deployment, usage, and security issues, and directs the efforts of the IT Security and Policy Office. The IT Security and Policy Office is involved in university-wide technology and electronic information policy administration, data administration, incident response, disaster-recovery planning, security-standards administration, technical risk-assessment programs, forensics, and security reviews and consulting.
Nichols holds a BS and a masters of management information systems (MIS) from the Louisiana State University Ourso College of Business Administration. He holds key security certifications, including a CISSP (Certified Information Systems Security Professional) and CISM (Certified Information Security Manager) in addition to both CISA (Certified Information Systems Auditor) and CIA (Certified Internal Auditor) certifications. Nichols is a member of the Educause/Internet2 Computer and Network Security Task Force, and is involved in various other efforts to improve overall security in higher education.
Cinta Putra
CEO and Co-founder
3n National Notification Network
Cinta Putra is 3n's chief executive officer and one of the company's co-founders. In this role, Ms. Putra is responsible for the overall leadership and strategic direction of the company.
Ms. Putra brings 18 years experience in management, finance, and operations to 3n. She has a solid understanding of the issues, processes, and path to success for an early-stage company. Most recently, she co-founded and served as president of Game Units, a successful niche provider of customizable, demographically targeted video-game units to customers that included Fortune 500 companies. Her previous experience includes co-founding Abacus Energy Services, an electric service provider company, and working in various senior-level leadership positions for PMC Global, a billion-dollar manufacturing conglomerate where Ms. Putra was responsible for worldwide financial operations and spearheaded several key projects including certain acquisitions and corporate restructuring. Prior to PMC Global, she held management positions at Liner Health Products.
Ms. Putra holds a bachelor's degree in accounting and finance and an MBA in management from California State University. She is an expert resource and frequent contributor to a number of emergency-communication publications and was recently named the No. 1 expert to discuss the 2003 blackout in the northeast and the No. 2 expert to discuss the 2004 Asian tsunami.
Philip W. Semas
Editor in Chief
The Chronicle of Higher Education
Phil Semas has been editor in chief of The Chronicle of Higher Education, Inc. since 2002. He oversees all editorial and business operations of the company, including The Chronicle of Higher Education, The Chronicle of Philanthropy, their Web sites, and Arts & Letters Daily.
Before becoming editor in chief, he served for seven years as editor of new media for The Chronicle. He oversaw all online activities by both newspapers, including their Web sites and e-mail newsletters. The Chronicle of Higher Education's Web site has won numerous awards. The Chronicle and its Web site have also been nominated for nine National Magazine Awards.
He is the founding editor of The Chronicle of Philanthropy, which began publication in 1988. He edited the newspaper for its first seven years. He began his career at The Chronicle as a reporter in 1969 and served as managing editor from 1978 to 1988.
Jeffrey Selingo
Editor
The Chronicle of Higher Education
Jeffrey Selingo was named editor of The Chronicle of Higher Education in August 2007. Based in Washington, D.C., Jeff directs a staff of more than 70 editors and reporters, in print and online.
Previously, Mr. Selingo had been an assistant managing editor and senior editor at The Chronicle since 2002, overseeing coverage of higher-education policy, campus leadership, fund raising, as well as surveys of presidents and trustees.
Before that, he had been a reporter covering state politics. In his 10 years at The Chronicle, Mr. Selingo's work has been honored with a National Award for Education Reporting from the Education Writers Association, a Dateline Award from the Society of Professional Journalists, and finalist status for a Livingston Award in the national reporting category.
Prior to coming to The Chronicle, Mr. Selingo was the environmental reporter for the Wilmington (N.C.) Star-News. He was a member of the staff that won a North Carolina Press Association Award for its coverage of two major hurricanes in 1996, and was the recipient of the state's top Associated Press writing award.
Mr. Selingo also worked for The Ithaca (N.Y.) Journal, and as a recipient of the Pulliam Journalism Fellowship he covered business technology for The Arizona Republic.
He received his bachelor's degree in journalism from Ithaca College and a master's degree in government from Johns Hopkins University.
M. Lewis Temares
CIO & Vice President for Information Technology
University of Miami
Dr. M. Lewis Temares is CIO, vice president for information technology, and dean emeritus of the College of Engineering at the University of Miami. He was awarded degrees from City College of New York, Baruch College, Columbia University, and City University of New York. As the first officially designated chief information officer in any of the nation's 4,000 colleges and universities, he is responsible for the University of Miami's computing and telecommunications applications and infrastructure. He is a senior member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers and a fellow in the Academy of Marketing Science. He has written articles and spoken internationally on the implementation and management of technology. UM was selected as number two in Computerworld's Best Places to Work in IT 2007; UM was number one in 2002. This is the sixth year that UM has placed in the top 5 of Computerworld's Top 100.
Michael C. Witt
Interdisciplinary Research Librarian and Assistant Professor of Library Science
Purdue University
Michael Witt is the interdisciplinary research librarian and an assistant professor of library science at the Purdue University Libraries and its Distributed Data Curation Center (D2C2). His research interests lie at the intersection of computer science and library science in the development and application of new technologies to preserve and improve access to information. He has published and presented on a variety of topics including digital librarianship, scientific data curation, institutional repositories, and cyberinfrastructure. He works to better integrate librarians and the principles of library science into interdisciplinary research and e-Science. He is also the library's liaison to Discovery Park, a 40-acre mini-campus that is home to 10 of Purdue's interdisciplinary research centers.
Jeffrey R. Young
Senior Writer
The Chronicle of Higher Education
Jeffrey R. Young is a senior writer for The Chronicle of Higher Education, where he covers the impact of technology on campus life. In his 10 years at The Chronicle he has been involved with efforts to use new technology at the newspaper, most recently producing video reports and podcasts for the Web. His articles have also appeared in The New York Times, AARP The Magazine, and The Best of Technology Writing 2007. Mr. Young earned a bachelor's degree from Princeton University and a master's degree in communication, culture, and technology from Georgetown University.