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EDUCAUSE Live! November 5, 2007 1:00 p.m. ET (12:00 p.m. CT, 11:00 a.m. MT, 10:00 a.m. PT); runs one hour Lessons Learned from the April 16, 2007, Tragedy at Virginia TechSpecial Guest
Erv Blythe is the vice president for information technology for Virginia Tech, where he has served in a number of roles since 1977. He oversees a budget of over $45 million and over 400 professional staff, faculty, and part-time employees. Blythe's research interest is on the technological and market structure obstacles to the emergence of regional and national advanced communications network infrastructure. In 1997, he led the creation of Network Virginia, a statewide broadband network. Blythe is involved in a number of collaborations focused on the planning and development of the next-generation Internet. . He is one of the founding principals driving the development of the National LambdaRail initiative and cochair of the EDUCAUSE Broadband Policy Group. Blythe serves on a number of committees, task forces, and boards of directors. He has given numerous presentations and was the editor of the New Horizons department in EDUCAUSE Review. Blythe has a bachelor’s in English and a master’s in environmental design and planning from Virginia Tech. SummaryYour host, Steve Worona, will be joined by Erv Blythe, and the topic will be "Lessons Learned from the April 16, 2007, Tragedy at Virginia Tech." On April 16, 2007, a Virginia Tech student shot and killed 32 faculty and students and wounded 25 others before killing himself in an academic building on campus. The university is still dealing with the aftermath of the incident and expects it to be an ongoing concern for the foreseeable future. This session will encapsulate summaries of the IT-related lessons learned including the impact on the university's communication system; the notification issue; radio communications interoperability; the sheer logistics of accommodating the communications infrastructure and control center needs for a variety of emergency responders and law enforcement; identity management and privacy; and data preservation and computer forensics. Overriding all of these issues is the question of federal, state, and local policies and ways in which policy issues were encountered, confronted, and managed. Related EDUCAUSE Resources
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