Joel P. Cooper

Joel Cooper is the director of information technology services at Carleton College, where he is responsible for academic and administrative information technology services, system and network administration, and media services. Prior to Carleton he served as director of information technology at Saint Mary’s College (Indiana), as an assistant director at the University of Notre Dame, and in academic computing support at the University of Texas at Austin, where he began his IT career. He is currently involved with a number of national and regional organizations, including EDUCAUSE, NITLE, CLAC (Consortium of Liberal Arts Colleges), and InCommon.

In addition to presenting at several EDUCAUSE conferences, Cooper has served on the EDUCAUSE 2005 Program Committee as an adjunct member, the Midwest EDUCAUSE conference planning committee as chair and member, and as a member of the Network Award Committee and the Professional Development Committee. He has a long-standing interest and involvement in directory services and identity management, networked information, and library/IT partnership. Cooper holds a BA from Calvin College and an MA in Germanic languages from the University of Texas at Austin.