Organization

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 Chief Information Officer and Associate Vice President, 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.
	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. 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.
	Dr. Mark Nelson is an ECAR Fellow and Digital Content Specialist at the National Association of College Stores (NACS). As an ECAR fellow, Mark has contributed to numerous major research studies including studies on IT leadership, IT alignment, and IT networking, the ECAR 2005 Study of Students and IT. Mark has authored several research bulletins. He is a noted scholar in the area of higher education and information technology and is a specialist in qualitative research methods. Before joining NACS, Mark was Assistant Professor in Management Information Systems and Information Technology at the Lally School of Management and Technology at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.
	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.
	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 recently contributed a chapter to The Wired Tower: Perspectives on the Impact of the Internet on Higher Education. He will advise on ECAR research on networking and integrated communications services, will join a team studying the relationship between process innovation and IT investment, and will be the principal investigator of an ECAR research study.
	Dr. Ron Yanosky until May 2005 was a principal analyst at Gartner Research, focusing on issues of higher education information technology. As a member of Gartner's higher education team for six years, Ron published over 100 reports and research notes on a wide range of IT issues, with special emphasis on e-learning, ERP, and enterprise portals. His academic career includes six years as assistant professor of history at Harvard University, 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.

Former Fellows

• Mary Beth (O'Connor) Baker, 2001–2003
• Robert Bender, 2003–2005
• Harvey Blustain, 2005–2006
• Sandra Braman, 2005–2007
• Paula King, 2002–2003
• Robert B. Kvavik, 2002–2006
• Dewitt Latimer, 2003–2005
• Ed Lightfoot, 2002–2002
• Diana Oblinger, 2000–2001
• James Penrod, 2002–2005