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Tracy Mitrano (Cornell University)

Tracy Mitrano
Director of IT Policy
Ithaca, New York
UNITED STATES

Tracy Mitrano

Biography

Tracy Mitrano is the Director of IT Policy and Institute for Computer Policy and Law. Currently she is on the boards of the National Institute for Technology in Liberal Education, Teach Privacy, and Cornell Daily Sun (the independent student newspaper at Cornell University), the Tompkins County Broadband Committee and is co-chair of the Hawkins Leadership Roundtable for EDUCAUSE.

Mitrano writes a blog for Insider Higher Ed entitled "Law, Policy and IT?" This year she published a chapter in the U.K. publication Collection Development in the Digital Age, entitled: "Information Literacy for the Academic Librarian in the Digital Information Age: Supporting Users to Make Effective Use of the Collection." Last fall Mitrano gave the keynote address at a copyright conference at John Cabot University in Rome, Italy. This spring, she will speak at St. Lawrence University on privacy and security of social media.

In May of 2012, Mitrano teams up with the privacy scholar Dan Solove for the first Cornell University-George Washington Law School Forum on Privacy and Information Management. Together with Anne Geyer of UC Berkeley she will give a keynote at the EDUCAUSE Enterprise Conference on Cloud Computing and participate in a full-day session on the same topic at the University of Alaska at Fairbanks in June.

A graduate and faculty member of the Frye Institute, Mitrano served as faculty for EDUCAUSE's Seminars on Academic Computing, the Executive Leadership Institute and the Leadership Institute, and was a member of the EDUCAUSE Board 2006-2010. She served as a member of the InCommon Steering Committee for two terms, from 2004-2010 and has been a frequent speaker at conferences, colleges and universities on the subjects of Internet national and institutional policy, electronic surveillance and government regulation, social networking and privacy. Mitrano has a doctorate in American History from Binghamton University and a law degree from Cornell Law School. Holding an appointment in the Department of Computing Information Science at Cornell University, she sometimes teaches a course “Culture, Law and Politics of the Internet.”

Presentations

Upcoming Presentations
EventSessionDate
Enterprise Technology Conference 2012The Making of an Outsourced Contract: Law, Policy, and Process05/17/2012
Recent Presentations
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EDUCAUSE 2011 Face-to-Face MeetingIT Accessibility in Higher Education, Present and Future10/20/2011
EDUCAUSE 2011 Face-to-Face MeetingCampus IT Policy10/20/2011
EDUCAUSE 2011 Face-to-Face MeetingPrivacy, the First Amendment, and Common Decency Online: Striking a Balance10/19/2011
EDUCAUSE 2011 Face-to-Face MeetingLitigation or Equal Access: Where Are Your Disability-Related IT Policies and Practices Leading You?10/19/2011
EDUCAUSE 2011 Face-to-Face MeetingSeminar 17A - IT Accessibility Law, Policy, and Implementation
PLEASE NOTE: Separate registration and fee is required to attend this seminar.
10/18/2011
EDUCAUSE Live! July 6Topic: Campus IT Policy: Past, Present, and Future07/06/2011
NERCOMP 2011Seminar 02A - Therapeutic Relief for IT Policymakers: Exploration and Toolkit
PLEASE NOTE: Separate registration and fee are required to attend this seminar.
03/28/2011
EDUCAUSE 2010 Face-to-Face MeetingPolicy and Law (ICPL)10/13/2010
EDUCAUSE 2010 Face-to-Face MeetingInternational Privacy Laws for Global Universities10/13/2010
NERCOMP 2010Internet Governance: Federal Regulatory Agency, or a Nightmare Par Excellence?03/10/2010
EDUCAUSE 2009 Face-to-Face ConferenceA New World: Rules for Copyright Infringement and P2P File Sharing11/05/2009
EDUCAUSE 2009 Face-to-Face ConferencePolicy and Law (ICPL)11/04/2009
EDUCAUSE 2009 Face-to-Face ConferenceFederated Identity and InCommon: Making Sense for the Bottom Line11/04/2009
EDUCAUSE 2009 Face-to-Face ConferenceSeminar 03F - Developing an Information Literacy Faculty Institute on Your Campus11/03/2009
EDUCAUSE Live! October 23Throwing Open the Doors: Strategies and Implications for Open Access10/23/2009
Enterprise Technology Conference 2009Internet Policy in Uncertain Economic Times05/06/2009
EDUCAUSE 2008Policy and Law10/29/2008
EDUCAUSE 2008P2P War Stories: Tales from the Trenches10/29/2008
EDUCAUSE Live! April 4The Why and How of Web Accessibility04/04/2008
Western Regional Conference 2008Growing Up Tech: Beyond the Hype and Fear04/01/2008
EDUCAUSE 2007E-Discovery10/25/2007
EDUCAUSE 2007Policy and Law10/24/2007
EDUCAUSE 2007Cultivating an Agile Workplace: When Eight-to-Five meets the Net Gen Worker10/24/2007
Seminars on Academic Computing 2007Legal and Policy Issues in Technology Deployment08/06/2007
EDUCAUSE Policy Conference 2007The Year in Review05/16/2007
Midwest Regional Conference 2007From Soup to Nuts: Copyright, Social Networking Technologies, and Electronic Surveillance03/14/2007
Midwest Regional Conference 2007Leveraging Your Existing Campus Systems to Access Partner Resources: The InCommon Federation and Tales of Campus Participation03/13/2007
Midwest Regional Conference 2007Copyright, CALEA, and All Things Legal03/13/2007
ELI 2007 Annual MeetingYouth, Technology, and Privacy01/24/2007
ELI 2007 Annual MeetingA Wider World: Youth, Privacy, and Social Networking Technologies01/24/2007
EDUCAUSE Live! November 8Facing Facebook and Other Social Networking Technologies11/08/2006
EDUCAUSE 2006Leveraging Your Existing Campus Systems to Access Partner Resources: Federated Identity Management and Tales of Campus Participation10/12/2006
EDUCAUSE 2006Policy and Law10/11/2006
EDUCAUSE 2006Policy and Process for Security of Institutional Data10/10/2006
EDUCAUSE 2006Campus Perspectives on IT Accessibility10/10/2006
EDUCAUSE 2006Seminar 16A - Web Accessibility: What Your Campus Needs to Know
PLEASE NOTE: Separate registration and fee is required to attend this seminar.
10/09/2006
EDUCAUSE 2006Sem10F-Cancelled10/09/2006
Seminars on Academic Computing 2006Strategic Thinking for the IT Leader in Times of Change (con't)08/05/2006
Leadership Program 2006The Process and Substance of IT Policy: A Study in Leadership06/26/2006
Enterprise Technology Conference 2006Policy and Regulatory Issues05/24/2006
EDUCAUSE Policy Conference 2006Safety, Security, and Privacy: The Politics of Surveillance04/26/2006
Security Professionals Conference 2006Information Security and Privacy Policy Development04/10/2006
Security Professionals Conference 2006Data-Incident Notification Policies and Procedures04/10/2006
EDUCAUSE 2005Policy and Law10/20/2005
EDUCAUSE 2005Security and Privacy Issues10/19/2005
Leadership Program 2005The Process and Substance of IT Policy: A Study in Leadership06/27/2005
CUMREC 2005The Politics of IT Policies Is the Politics of Everything Digital05/18/2005
Western Regional Conference 2005Balancing Security and Privacy in Times of Cyberterror04/28/2005
Western Regional Conference 2005InCommon Federation: Is It Right for Your Campus?04/27/2005
EDUCAUSE Policy Conference 2005Managing Electronic Identity: Time to Get Serious04/07/2005
Security Professionals Conference 2005What Does Privacy Have to Do with IT? Privacy Risk Assessment04/04/2005
EDUCAUSE 2004Policy and Law10/21/2004
EDUCAUSE 2004Balancing Security and Privacy in Times of Cyberterror10/21/2004
EDUCAUSE 2004Seminar 03F - The Pieces and the Puzzle of IT Policy Development
PLEASE NOTE: Separate registration and fee is required to attend this seminar.
10/19/2004
Leadership Program 2004The Process and Substance of IT Policy: A Study in Leadership06/29/2004
Security Professionals WorkshopSecurity Policies for Institutions of Higher Education05/17/2004
Security Professionals WorkshopHow to Create an IT Security Program05/17/2004
EDUCAUSE 2003The Scales of Justice: Balancing Policy and Law Against Expectations in Real-Life Computer Abuse Cases11/06/2003
EDUCAUSE 2003Policy and Law11/06/2003
EDUCAUSE 2003Copyright Policies: Past, Present, and Future11/05/2003
EDUCAUSE 2003Seminar 14P - The Security Conundrum for Higher Education: How to Balance Securing Our Networks While Maintaining the Openness of the Academy
PLEASE NOTE: Separate registration and fee is required to attend this seminar.
11/04/2003
EDUCAUSE 2003Seminar 07F - Federal Legislation and IT Policy in Higher Education
PLEASE NOTE: Separate registration and fee is required to attend this seminar.
11/04/2003
Networking 2003Implementing New Laws: Meeting Expectations with Available Knowledge and Resources05/01/2003
NERCOMP 2003Tales from the Trenches: Stories of Security, Computer Policy, and Law03/17/2003
EDUCAUSE 2002Policy and Law10/03/2002
EDUCAUSE 2002Update & Information on the Frye Institute10/02/2002
EDUCAUSE 2002Introducing the EDUCAUSE/Cornell Institute for Computer Policy and Law10/02/2002
EDUCAUSE 2002Seminar 10A - The USA PATRIOT Act and Public Policy Implications of Electronic Surveillance
PLEASE NOTE: Separate registration and fee is required to attend this seminar.
10/01/2002
EDUCAUSE 2002Seminar 02P - Patriot Act: Procedures and Protocols for IT Systems
PLEASE NOTE: Separate registration and fee is required to attend this seminar.
10/01/2002
Networking 2002The USA-PATRIOT Act and Future Congressional Legislation's Impact on Higher Education04/17/2002
EDUCAUSE 2001Anti-Terrorism Legislation and Campus Computing10/30/2001

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