Leadership Awards 2004 Winners

Excellence in Leadership

M. Stuart Lynn
Associate Vice President (Retired)
Information Resources and Communications
University of California Office of the President

Professional Background
Stuart Lynn’s career has spanned nearly every generation of higher education technology from his early connection with computers as a graduate student at UCLA in 1958. In each era he made national contributions that reflected his transformative vision, intellectual integrity, breadth of knowledge, and ability to encourage and develop emergent leaders. In 2001, Dr. Lynn came out of retirement from academic life to lead the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) as president and CEO, retiring again in 2003. He earlier served as associate vice president for Information Resources and Communications at the University of California Office of the President, as vice president for Information Technologies at Cornell University, in academic and administrative positions at Rice University and the University of California at Berkeley, and as head of IBM’s Scientific Computing Center at Houston.

A catalyst and leader in the evolution of generations of higher education networking, Dr. Lynn contributed to such important infrastructure initiatives as Bitnet, NYSERNet, NSFNET, the vBNS, Internet2, Abilene. Most recently, he was a key energizing force and the first president and chair of the board of the Corporation for Education Network Initiatives (CENIC), the consortium of California universities responsible for advanced services networking in support of the Internet2 effort.

Throughout his career, Dr. Lynn focused on taking technology out of the control of technologists and into the hands of users. He played pioneering roles in the development of campus planning and organizational models and in adapting such models to evolving needs, including early models for distributed computing support; in spearheading software innovations such as Cornell’s Mandarin, Bear Access, and Cu-SeeMe projects to support easy information access and communications in the pre-Web era; in leading major initiatives in electronic publishing, the electronic library, and digital preservation, and in digital certification and authentication; and in shaping evolving intellectual property legislation. He orchestrated policy development across complex institutions, such as comprehensive institutional electronic mail and electronic communications policies for the then nine-campus University of California. His service on numerous boards, councils, and professional societies evidenced his wide-ranging interests. In 1994 he was elected a Fellow of the ACM.

Few leaders in higher education information technology have had such a broad influence on campuses and the Internet community, initiated as many new applications of technology, or mentored as many emergent leaders as Stuart Lynn.

Dr. Lynn holds B.A. and M.A. degrees from Oxford University and M.A. and Ph.D. degrees from the University of California at Los Angeles, all in mathematics.

EDUCAUSE is making a $5,000 contribution in Stuart Lynn’s name to the UCLA Foundation to provide sight-impaired students with computer technology to further their education.

This award is sponsored by SunGard SCT, An EDUCAUSE Platinum Partner.

Leadership in the Profession

Jacqueline Brown
Assistant Vice Provost, Information Technology Partnerships
University of Washington

Professional Background
During her professional career of more than two decades, Jacqueline Brown has served effectively at both Princeton University and the University of Washington while mentoring and helping to build a community of IT leaders across the United States and internationally. A strategic and clear thinker, she brings training as a scientist to her enthusiasm for the potential of information technologies. As director of Information Services at Princeton in the late 1980s and ’90s, she demonstrated her hallmark qualities: an ability to find creative solutions to nettlesome organizational problems, an eye for talented staff and commitment to mentoring them through the professional ranks, willingness to learn from and advise other institutions about better ways to evaluate and improve the level of user services throughout higher education.

At the University of Washington since 1999, Brown’s work has emphasized partnerships and collaboration, first (as director of technology outreach and partnerships) with public and corporate sectors in the region as well as nationally and internationally, then with building innovative teaching and learning partnerships facilitated by participation in advanced networks, and currently through the addition of biomedical and public health areas and international research opportunities to her earlier interests.

Over the years, Jacqueline has helped shape the collaborative processes for groups like Educom’s Educational Uses of Information Technology (EUIT), the Seminars on Academic Computing (SAC), CAUSE, and Educom. She was a major player in the early New Media Centers work and has contributed significantly to Syllabus, the Pacific Telecommunications Consortium, Asia-Pacific Advanced Networks, The Quilt coalition, and Internet2. Throughout her work, she has challenged colleagues to remember that investments in theory need to be borne out in practice, and to focus on the relevant as well as the interesting.

Ms. Brown holds holds degrees in astrophysics and library science.

EDUCAUSE is making a $2,000 contribution in Jacqueline Brown’s name to the Astronomy Department of the University of Washington.

This award is sponsored by SunGard SCT, An EDUCAUSE Platinum Partner.