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About EDUCAUSE
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EDUCAUSE Honors Outstanding Higher Education Information Technology Achievements
The EDUCAUSE Leadership AwardsOne of the most important priorities of EDUCAUSE awards is to encourage and reward individual growth within the profession of higher education information technology management. This program honors prominent leaders in that field for significant achievement and broad influence. The program is sponsored by SCT, An EDUCAUSE Platinum Partner. Excellence in Leadership— for extraordinary effectiveness, influence, statesmanship, and lifetime achievement, on both individual campuses and the wider higher education community Polley Ann McClure McClure has been called one of the strongest leaders within her profession in higher education today. She has managed university information technology organizations since the early 1980s, at three major academic institutions: Indiana University, the University of Virginia, and Cornell University. Trained as a scientist, she taught ecology and evolutionary biology and conducted research on animal life-history traits at Indiana University, and has continued to hold faculty appointments throughout her career. Her academic experience has honed the communication and collaboration skills, capacity to find exciting possibilities for institutional improvement, focus on staff career development, and high sense of ethics that characterize her work in the information technology community. McClure's contributions to the institutions she has served are profound. At Indiana, she built one of the first institution-wide network infrastructures and led one of the first mergers of administrative and academic technology organizations in the United States, helping staff from both widely differing cultures understand the strength of the consolidated organization. At Virginia, she successfully merged the academic, administrative, and voice communications activities into a single organization that provides a model of how IT in higher education can more effectively support a research university's mission. Her name is synonymous with forward-thinking approaches to building both a platform of technology to support the academic enterprise, and the staff expertise to maintain and strengthen that infrastructure. On the national level, McClure has been an extremely important and influential leader of EDUCAUSE and its predecessor associations. While on the boards of both CAUSE and Educom she guided strategic analyses that catalyzed the merger of the two organizations in 1998. As the first elected chair of the EDUCAUSE board, she helped define policy directions that gave substance to the new organization and was widely respected for her sensitivity to individual and organizational concerns about the change. Other volunteer commitments include consulting work for numerous universities and service on the boards of the Snowmass Seminars on Academic Computing, SIGUCCS, and the Institute for Academic Technology, and on corporate advisory councils. Her many publications and speeches, in both biological literature and IT management, reflect her thoughtfulness, good sense, and perceptiveness, as well as her trademark ability to identify connections among seemingly isolated problems and develop a holistic response. She recently edited the newest volume in the EDUCAUSE Leadership Strategies series, Organizing and Managing Information Resources on Your Campus. McClure holds a B.A. in zoology and a Ph About EDUCAUSE
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