Lucinda Lea

In 2002, Lucinda Lea was named Middle Tennessee State University Vice President for Information Technology and CIO. As a member of the president's cabinet, she has responsibility for strategic and tactical planning in all facets of IT. She leads the Information Technology Division in providing the services of academic and administrative computing, instructional technology, web applications, networking and telecommunications, and the campus ID system.

Ms. Lea has given presentations and papers, nationally and regionally, describing campus innovations in information technology, and she has served on numerous IT boards. In 1996, she founded the Instructional Technology Conference, held annually at MTSU. She was the recipient of the 2002 Distinguished Service Award in Tennessee Higher Education Computing, and she currently serves on the advisory board of the EDUCAUSE Learning Initiative.

Ms. Lea served on the Seminars on Academic Computing (SAC) Advisory Board (2002-2005) and as SAC Board Chair in 2004-2005. She was a member of the Research Task Force commissioned by EDUCAUSE to examine avenues for collection and dissemination of core institutional data for higher education institutions. The process culminated in the creation of the EDUCAUSE Core Data Service. She was program chair for the 2003 EDUCAUSE Southeast Regional Conference and served as program chair for the 2005 EDUCAUSE Conference.

Previous experience includes: MTSU Assistant Vice President for Information Technology; Director of the MTSU Office of Information Technology; MTSU Academic Computing Manager; and Systems Programmer, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA. She holds undergraduate and graduate degrees in mathematics.