EDUCAUSE Welcomes New Board Members

EDUCAUSE is pleased to announce that three individuals—two elected and one appointed—will be joining the association’s board of directors for four-year terms beginning January 1, 2007. Tracy Mitrano and Scott E. Siddall were elected by primary representatives of member institutions during the board election that ended on September 11. Kathleen Curry Santora has been appointed by the current board. One appointed member is selected each year to add balance from a variety of sectors critical for advancing higher education. EDUCAUSE welcomes the perspectives and expertise these new board members will bring to the association’s governance. Brief profiles follow.

Tracy Mitrano is director of information technologies policy and the University Computer Policy and Law Program at Cornell University. In connection with her current responsibilities, she is the DMCA (Digital Millennium Copyright Act) registered agent and compliance officer for Cornell and co-director of the EDUCAUSE/Cornell Institute for Computer Policy and Law. She also holds an appointment as adjunct assistant professor in Cornell’s Information Science Department and has served as a faculty member with the EDUCAUSE Institute Leadership Program and the Frye Leadership Institute. Her extensive contributions to various higher education constituencies include service with Harvard University’s Berkman Center for Internet Law and Society; the Seminars on Academic Computing; the EDUCAUSE 2005 Annual Conference Program Committee; the InCommon/Internet2 Executive Committee for Shibboleth Technologies; the International Association of Privacy Professionals; the National Center on Disability and Access to Education Summit on Distance Education; the EDUCAUSE Security Task Force; and the Advisory Board of the Computer Incident Analysis and Factoriztion program at the University of Michigan School of Social Policy. Her extensive publications and invited talks have covered, among other topics, best practices in education security, copyright and civil rights, privacy in the electronic campus, and IT policy development. She holds bachelor’s degrees in English and history (with distinction) from the University of Rochester, a doctorate in American and women's history from Binghamton University, and a juris doctor degree from Cornell University.

Scott E. Siddall is assistant provost and director of instructional technology at Denison University. Previously, he served on the graduate faculties at the University of Miami and the State University of New York at Stony Brook in marine sciences, using technology throughout a career in oceanography. He has worked in technology management in higher education at both large (SUNY–Stony Brook) and small (Kenyon College, Denison University) institutions. In addition to leadership roles in the National Shellfisheries Association and the Consortium of Liberal Arts Colleges, he founded a regional freenet in Central Ohio. His broad service to the profession includes leading the EDUCAUSE CIO Constituent Group and contributing to such EDUCAUSE bodies as the Research Task Force, the 2005 Annual Conference Program Committee, the Advisory Committee on Teaching and Learning, the Student Guide Advisory Group, the IT Funding Task Force, and the Learning Spaces Focus Session Planning Group. He has also spoken extensively at regional and national conferences on technology in the curriculum, media services, learning space design, and digital asset management. He holds a bachelor’s degree with honors from Case Western Reserve University and a doctorate in biological oceanography from the Rosensteil School of Marine and Atmospheric Science of the University of Miami.

Kathleen Curry Santora has been chief executive officer of the National Association of College and University Attorneys since February 2001. Prior to this appointment,  she was vice president and chief operating officer of the American Association for Higher Education. She previously served in various positions at Georgetown University—as secretary of the university, assistant to the president for external relations, and assistant to the president. She has also worked for the National Association of Independent Colleges and Universities as vice president for operations and counsel, executive director and counsel for state relations, associate director of government relations and associate general counsel, and legislative representative. In addition, she has served as director for public policy and external relations at the Association of Governing Boards of Universities and Colleges. She holds a bachelor’s degree in political science from the University of Scranton and a juris doctor degree from the Columbus School of Law at The Catholic University of America. She is a member of the Pennsylvania Bar and currently serves on the Policy Board that oversees the .edu Internet domain that EDUCAUSE administers, the board of the American Council on Education, and the board of the Academic Search Consultation Service, as well as chairing the Washington Higher Education Secretariat Steering Committee.

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.