Organization | EDUCAUSE

ECAR is the research organization within EDUCAUSE. The work of ECAR is conducted by a network of paid and volunteer fellows. ECAR was established in 2001 by approval of the EDUCAUSE Board of Directors.

The ECAR research agenda is shaped through ongoing discussion with a variety of EDUCAUSE member committees and leaders. This agenda is influenced on an regular and ongoing basis by five existing bodies:

The EDUCAUSE Board of Directors
The EDUCAUSE Executive Team
The EDUCAUSE Learning Initiative
The Net@EDU Steering Committee
The EDUCAUSE Advisory Group on Enterprise Information Systems and Service

In addition, ECAR works through a network of scholars, analysts, practitioners, and partners to collect and analyze meaningful information about the use and management of information technology in higher education. Its goal is to provide decision makers with reliable, data-driven analysis in the form of full-scale studies, case studies, research bulletins, and roadmaps.

Director

EDUCAUSE Vice President Richard N. Katz is the founding director of ECAR. Katz has served EDUCAUSE (and its predecessors) since 1996, following a 14-year career at the University of California. He has been responsible for educational programs as well as member and corporate relations at EDUCAUSE. As executive director of business planning and practices at the University of California, he was responsible for design and implementation of many of the UC System's strategic management initiatives.

Research Fellows and Staff

	Dr. Robert Albrecht began his academic career on the faculty at the University of Chicago. Moving to the Department of English at the University of Oregon, he taught American literature courses and became Dean and ultimately Vice Provost. In 1982 he was appointed Vice President for Academic Affairs at the University of Northern Colorado. In 1987 he became Deputy Commissioner for Academic Affairs in the Montana University System, returning to Colorado in 1989 to become Associate Vice President at the University of Colorado. In 1996 he assumed the leadership of Western Governors University until his retirement as Chancellor Emeritus in 2000. He has written extensively on distance learning and technology supported learning.
	Judith B. Caruso is an ECAR fellow and is Director of Policy and Planning at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, having previously served as Director of Applications Technology. She served on the IT Directors Advisory Board to the Wisconsin Department of Employee Relations and the EDUCAUSE Current Issues Committee. She has delivered papers and presentations on IT staffing, policy, and security for CAUSE, EDUCAUSE, and CUMREC. She chaired the EDUCAUSE Quarterly Editorial Committee in 2002, and was a CUMREC Vice President and board member. As an ECAR fellow, she writes case studies, key findings, and research bulletins, and she provides project management support for major ECAR studies.
	Dr. David A. Damassa is an ECAR Fellow and Dean for Information Technology and Professor of Anatomy and Cellular Biology at the Tufts University School of Medicine. He has actively promoted the use of IT to support medical education and research for more than two decades. He oversees the Tufts University Science Knowledgebase (TUSK), a multimedia knowledge management system built on open source software and currently used by medical schools in the U.S., Africa, and India. He also oversees the development of a Tufts simulation technology center and network. As an ECAR Fellow, Damassa studies the use of simulation in Australian medical education. With Richard Katz and Ted Dodds, he also conducts research into how universities in Australia, New Zealand, and select parts of Asia integrate information technology into their missions.
	Ted Dodds is an ECAR Fellow and Vice Provost—Information Technology, at the University of British Columbia. Dodds is responsible for institutional IT strategy and services at UBC. He is active in Canadian national IT efforts and has served as chair of the board of CANARIE, Canada’s advanced Internet development organization. As an ECAR Fellow, Dodds studies how European universities are addressing information technology (IT) security, identity management, e-scholarship, and academic analytics. He also conducts research into how universities in Australia, New Zealand, and select parts of Asia integrate IT into their missions.
	Susan Foster is an ECAR senior fellow. Her 46 years in IT in higher education culminated with her appointment, in 1989, as the first CIO at the University of Delaware. She retired from that university in 2008. Susan became active in Educom and CAUSE, rising to chair the board of CAUSE and to co-chair the founding board of EDUCAUSE. She served as a member of the State of Delaware Governor's Commission on Administrative Restructuring and on of the board of directors of the State of Delaware's Center for Educational Technology.
	Dr. Milton Glick is an ECAR senior fellow and President of the University of Nevada, Reno. Glick has served as Executive Vice President and Provost of Arizona State University where he also held a faculty appointment in the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry. Formerly, he was provost at Iowa State University and served there as interim president. Glick has also served as dean of the College of Arts and Science at the University of Missouri, and was the chemistry chair at Wayne State University. He encourages innovative and appropriate use of computers and programs to support learning, research, and administration, and has published over 100 articles on structural chemistry, trends in higher education, and information technology. At ECAR, Glick will study relationship between institutional process performance and IT investment, leadership, and culture.
	Phil Goldstein has served higher education as a consultant and administrator for over 14 years. He held leadership positions in the education consulting practices of both PricewaterhouseCoopers and Cap Gemini Ernst and Young, where his work blended together the fields of operations and information technology. Phil also served in an administrative capacity at the University of Pennsylvania where he focused on new revenue generation and industry relations. He has been a frequent speaker and author on topics including outsourcing, process reengineering, and the changing competitive landscape in higher education.
	Dr. Marilu Goodyear holds a faculty appointment in the Stene Graduate Program in Public Administration at the University of Kansas (KU), where she teaches and conducts research on electronic information policy development. Previously, Goodyear served as Vice Provost and chief officer for libraries and information technology services at KU. As a Fellow of the National Academy of Public Administration, Goodyear currently serves on a review panel for the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. At ECAR, Goodyear focuses on issues related to IT leadership and, in particular, the role that mentoring plays in the development of information technology leaders.
	Dr. Joshua Kim is a senior learning technologist at Dartmouth College and an adjunct faculty member in the Department of Sociology at Dartmouth and the School of Business at Quinnipiac University. Prior to coming to Dartmouth in 2008, Kim worked as a program manager/learning designer at Quinnipiac University. He was also a senior producer for Britannica.com Education and was on the faculty at West Virginia University.
	Dr. Jack McCredie is an associate vice chancellor emeritus and CIO emeritus for the University of California, Berkeley. From 1992 through 2005 he led all central computing and communication activities including the campus data and voice network and support for academic and administrative programs. Previously he directed the External Research Program at Digital Equipment Corporation, and before that he served as president of EDUCOM and vice provost for computing and planning at Carnegie Mellon University. McCredie is a member of the Internet2 Board of Trustees, chairs the Internet2 Network Planning and Policy Advisory Council and was, for five years, a founding member of the board of the Corporation for Education Networking Initiatives in California (CENIC).
	*Dr. Bruce Metz* brings to ECAR over 20 years of experience as a senior information technology executive and Chief Information Officer in higher education. Most recently, he served as Vice President for IT and CIO at Tufts University. Under his leadership, Tufts received multiple national awards for technology innovation, including becoming the first university to win the prestigious CIO Magazine Enterprise Value Award. Metz is currently consulting and teaching at Tufts in the areas of leadership and organizational development. Prior to joining Tufts, Metz was CIO at Rider University and held senior management positions at Princeton University and Stevens Institute of Technology. He is a frequent speaker at national and regional conferences on topics related to IT, organizations, and their interactions. As an ECAR fellow, Metz will work on an investigation of IT support for research in higher education.
	Judith A. Pirani is an ECAR research fellow and president of Sheep Pond Associates. Her expertise focuses on educational technology issues. Sample research includes the use of e-learning to improve employee efficiencies and sales demand, the marketability of course management systems for corporate training applications, and Web site development strategies in higher education and government institutions. She has co-authored several ECAR studies including Wireless Networking in Higher Education, and Supporting E-Learning in Higher Education. Among other things, Ms. Pirani will work on ECAR studies of IT security in higher education and IT leadership. Previously she was Vice President at Lyra Research and Giga Information Group, where she managed worldwide research practices in digital imaging technologies.
	Dr. Gail Salaway was former director of Administrative Computing and Communications at UCLA where she was responsible for campus-wide administrative information systems and telecommunications services and management of academic and general computing initiatives. As an ECAR fellow, she has been co-principal investigator of research studies on IT networking, IT alignment, and IT leadership in higher education and author of several research bulletins and case studies.
	Dr. Mark Sheehan served from 1996 until 2006 in executive IT leadership positions at Montana State University's flagship campus in Bozeman. Prior to joining the administrative staff at Montana State, he was a member of the Indiana University IT organization's management team for 13 years. Dr. Sheehan served for six years on the Board of the NorthWest Academic Computing Consortium, recently completing a two-year term as chair. In 2006 he completed his fourth and final season on the faculty of the EDUCAUSE Institute Leadership Program. Between 1990 and 2006 he contributed numerous book reviews, articles, and commentaries to EDUCAUSE publications and several commercial trade publications. He has made conference presentations, led roundtable discussions, and conducted workshops at EDUCAUSE and SIGUCCS conferences. He served on the EDUCAUSE Current Issues Committee from 1995 to 1998.
	Toby Sitko most recently served as Director of Policy and Planning for Information Technology Services at New York University. In addition to guiding the evolution and implementation of IT policy, plans, and strategy at NYU, she was project leader for university-wide initiatives related to e-learning, regulatory policy, copyright, IT architecture, and global IT services. Prior to her role at NYU, she held appointments at other major universities, including Deputy Executive Director for Information Resources at the City University of New York Graduate Center, Director of Information Technology Customer Services at the University of Houston, and Assistant Director for User Support at Indiana University Bloomington. She has co-authored several publications, chaired the EDUCAUSE Publications Advisory Committee, and has served on the EDUCAUSE Leadership Institute faculty and the Current Issues Committee.
	Shannon Smith began her career in 1983 at Electronic Data Systems and subsequently specialized in business intelligence systems. In 2000, she returned to the University of Nebraska to pursue a doctorate in American History and has taught at Oglala Lakota College on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota since 2002. As chair of the college’s distance learning committee, she advocated for and oversaw the implementation of policies and technologies to support the economically disadvantaged student body. In addition to her research on learning technology and non-traditional students, she has also published extensively on Western and American Indian History.
	Dr. Donald Z. Spicer is an ECAR senior fellow, and CIO and associate vice chancellor for Information Technology for the 13-institution University System of Maryland. He has considerable experience as a faculty member and academic administrator, and previously held the CIO position at the University of Notre Dame and Vanderbilt University. He has made significant contributions to EDUCAUSE, serving as chair of the Current Issues Committee, program chair of the inaugural Mid-Atlantic Regional Conference, and as a member of the Core Data Service Research Task Force and the 2005 Annual Conference Program Committee. He has co-authored ECAR case studies on a wide variety of topics and has co-authored several Research Bulletins.
	Niran Subramaniam is an ECAR fellow focusing on European practices in enterprise systems. He is conducting doctoral research in the information systems group at the Warwick Business School in England, and his work there focuses on the influence of social computing on enterprise systems. Prior to pursuing his doctorate, Niran was director of management information systems at the University of British Columbia, where he led EnableIT, a program launched to upgrade and implement the web-based PeopleSoft ERP systems. He was a member of the EDUCAUSE Advisory Group on Enterprise Systems and Services.
	John Voloudakis has served the higher education and healthcare industries as a consultant and administrator for over 18 years. He has held leadership positions in the education practices of Cap Gemini Ernst & Young, BearingPoint, and Huron Consulting Group, where he focused on helping institutions get the most from their investments in information technology. John also led an information technology department at Harvard University. John has co-authored or contributed to several ECAR studies and research bulletins, and he is a frequent speaker and author on enterprise systems, security, and IT organizational effectiveness.
	Dr. Ron Yanosky has been with ECAR since 2005 and currently serves as deputy director and senior fellow. As one of ECAR's principal investigators, he has published major studies on identity management, business continuity, and IT governance. Before joining ECAR, he was a principal analyst at Gartner, Inc., focusing on issues relating to higher education information technology. Trained as a historian, Ron was an assistant professor of history at Harvard University in the 1990s, where he taught American history. Prior to his academic career, he led development work on financial and HR systems as a programmer/analyst for the Kaiser-Permanente Medical Care Program.