EDUCAUSE Welcomes New Board Members

EDUCAUSE is pleased to announce three individuals—two elected and one appointed—who will be joining the association’s board of directors for four-year terms beginning January 1, 2006. Lucinda T. Lea and Marilyn A. McMillan were elected by primary representatives of member institutions during the board election that ended on September 20. Jerry D. Campbell has been appointed by the current board. One appointed member is selected each year to add balance from the variety of IT sectors critical for advancing higher education. Brief profiles follow.

Jerry D. Campbell is CIO and dean of university libraries at the University of Southern California. His previous appointments include, at Duke University: vice provost for library affairs, university librarian, professor of theological bibliography, and vice provost for computing; at Southern Methodist University: director of Bridwell Library and associate professor of theology; and at the Iliff School of Theology: director of library and bookstore operations, director of the Ira J. Taylor Library, associate and assistant librarian, and director of technical services. He has served the IT profession as a member of several EDUCAUSE committees: Policy Conference Program Committee, Western Regional Conference Founding Program Committee, and the Recognition Committee. In addition, among his extensive contributions to other professional organizations, is service on the Sun Microsystems Academic Advisory Council, Center for Telecommunications Management Board of Trustees, California Virtual University Board of Trustees, Council on Library and Information Resources Board of Trustees, North Carolina Information Highway Library Team, National Humanities Center Board of Trustees, Digital Library Federation Policy Committee, and Research Library Group Board of Directors. In addition, he has served as president and board member of the Association of Research Libraries, on the executive committee of InCommon, as commissioner of the Western Association of Schools and Colleges, and on visiting review committees for university libraries and theology schools. Campbell has spoken widely and published extensively on topics ranging from scholarship in a networked world to organizational transformation, digital libraries, copyright issues, federation and research libraries, and library management. He holds a BA from McMurry College, a MDiv from Duke University, an MSLS from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and a PhD in American History from the University of Denver.

Lucinda T. Lea is vice president for information technology and CIO at Middle Tennessee State University, having previously served there as assistant vice president for IT and as director of the Office of Information Technology. She began her computing career as a systems programmer at the Louisiana State University Computer Center. Her extensive contributions to the profession include serving as program chair for the 2005 EDUCAUSE Annual Conference; program chair for the EDUCAUSE Southeast Regional Conference; chair of the Seminars on Academic Computing (SAC) Advisory Board and SAC Instructional Technology Track Program Chair; member of the research task force that developed the EDUCAUSE Core Data Service; founder and chair of the Instructional Technology Conference; editorial board member of The Technology Source; and member of the Syllabus Advisory Board and Campus Technology Advisory Board. She has given numerous presentations and papers nationally and regionally describing campus innovations in information technology, and has received the Distinguished Service Award in Tennessee Higher Education Computing. Lea holds a BS from Tennessee Technological University and an MS from Middle Tennessee State University in mathematics.

Marilyn A. McMillan is associate provost and chief information technology officer at New York University, where she inaugurated the CITO position. Previously, she served as director of applications assembly and integration at Stanford University, and held several positions at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, including director of administrative systems, director of architecture and strategic technology, director of information systems planning, and project manager. Her earlier IT experience was in government and private industry. McMillan’s broad professional background includes serving as a member of the CAUSE Board of Directors and Recognition Committee; founding faculty member and director of the CAUSE Management Institute Directors Program; member of the Internet2 Network Policy and Planning Council; board member of the New York State Education and Research Network; member of the steering committee of the Tri-State (NY, NJ, CT) CIO Forum; and member of the New York City chapter of the Society of Information Management. She has been a featured speaker at EDUCAUSE annual conferences and others, and has coauthored two research bulletins for the EDUCAUSE Center for Applied Research (ECAR) and a chapter on business continuity in the EDUCAUSE Leadership Strategies series book Organizing and Managing Information Resources on Your Campus. In addition, she has served on an accreditation team for the Middle States Commission on Higher Education and on other teams assisting universities in IT assessment and planning. She holds a BS in political science from Rutgers University and has done graduate work at Virginia Tech, Boston University, and the University of Pennsylvania, where she is a doctoral candidate.

About EDUCAUSE

EDUCAUSE is a nonprofit association whose mission is to advance higher education by promoting the intelligent use of information technology. The current membership comprises more than 2,200 colleges, universities, and educational organizations, including 250 corporations, with 17,000 active members. Learn more about EDUCAUSE at www.educause.edu.