Leadership Awards 2005 Winners

Excellence in Leadership

Ronald Bleed
Vice Chancellor for Information Technologies
Maricopa Community College District

Professional Background

This year's award for Excellence in Leadership goes to Ronald Bleed, vice chancellor for Information Technologies for the Maricopa Community College District. Bleed's distinguished career has provided leadership and service to a variety of constituencies for over 39 years. At the Maricopa Community Colleges, through his executive role as vice chancellor he raised the bar for technology implementation and utilization to the point that Maricopa is nationally recognized as a leader in this arena and an exemplar among community colleges. He was a founder of the League for Innovation's computer conference, which became one of the largest-attended in the field. He has served his profession as chair of the EDUCAUSE Board of Directors for two terms, board chair of CAUSE and vice-chair of Educom, and an important facilitator of the merger of those two organizations.

Bleed has brought vision and expertise to the international consulting community, including serving as a visiting scholar for the Salzburg Seminar, and to many corporate advisory councils including those of Microsoft, Apple, HP, and Oracle. His interests in the teaching and learning space extend to original research on large-enrollment courses as the focus for strategies for instructional innovation, serving on the advisory board of MERLOT (the Multimedia Educational Resource for Learning and Online Teaching), supporting library transformations, and introducing new ideas into building architectures. His writings and presentations are many and varied. His leadership is marked by a focus on individuals, especially students, as evidenced in his challenge to "build into our systems and our personal and professional behavior the mentoring capability that supports the making of meaning by the students of this new era."

EDUCAUSE is making a $5,000 contribution in Ron Bleed's name to the Maricopa Colleges Foundation for tuition scholarships for students enrolled in digital storytelling courses.

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

Leadership in the Profession

Annie Stunden
Chief Information Officer
University of Wisconsin–Madison

Professional Background

The 2005 award for Leadership in the Profession goes to Annie Stunden, chief information officer of the University of Wisconsin–Madison. She has demonstrated strong and ground-breaking leadership in the information technology business since her first IT management position 37 years ago. For the past 15 years she has been providing that leadership to higher education IT organizations, serving at the University of Rochester, Northwestern University, and Cornell University before taking on her current role at Wisconsin in 2000. A co-founder and executive director of the Northern Tier Network Consortium, she has also been instrumental in making UW–Madison expertise and resources available to other system campuses through supporting the creation of shared facilities such as Learn@UW, a UW system-wide utility providing course management software for 26 campuses, and IAA, a central identification, authentication, and authorization service for all UW institutions.

Stunden has contributed volunteer leadership to such organizations as CREN and CAUSE (serving on the boards of both), the SIGUCCS Management Institute, the Seminars on Academic Computing, the CIC-CIO group, NYSERNet, and the Internet2 Network Planning and Policy Advisory Council, as well as to numerous advisory committees of vendors serving higher education. She has been a popular faculty member of the CAUSE and EDUCAUSE Institutes, and her many presentations receive high marks for her perceptive, colorful, and articulate insights into issues of institutional, organizational, and national importance. Throughout her career, Stunden has aimed to strike the right balance between organizational goals and individual concerns, innovative technologies and ease of use, with a focus on the community and how best to serve the client. A role model and mentor for many who have emerged as leaders in our profession, she has dedicated her higher education career to fostering collaborations among colleagues and leading efforts to provide the best IT environment possible in support of teaching, research, and service. She attributes much of her success as a leader to her candor and commitment to truth telling.

EDUCAUSE is making a $2,000 contribution in Annie Stunden's name to the Information Technology Academy (ITA) sponsored by the University of Wisconsin–Madison Division of Information Technology. ITA is a four-year pre-college technology access and training program for talented students of color and economically disadvantaged students attending Madison public schools.

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

Leadership in Public Policy and Practice

Clifford A. Lynch
Executive Director
Coalition for Networked Information

Professional Background

This year's award for Leadership in Public Policy and Practice goes to Clifford A. Lynch, executive director of the Coalition for Networked Information, an organization dedicated to supporting the transformative promise of networked information technology for the advancement of scholarly communication and the enrichment of intellectual productivity which is co-sponsored by the Association of Research Libraries and EDUCAUSE. Lynch is a leading analyst of technology trends in education, libraries, publishing, and cultural arenas, and an advisor to organizations and leaders involved in those fields. Prior to joining CNI in 1997 he spent 18 years at the University of California Office of the President, the last ten as director of library automation. For well over 20 years he has been at the leading edge, developing studies, practices, and policies that have helped library and IT professionals understand and employ significant innovations in making networked information available to faculty, students, and the general public, with particular attention to the policy implications of technical issues.

A prolific writer and speaker, Lynch has worked with leading boards on digital preservation, national and international networking, and intellectual property issues. He is an adjunct professor at UC Berkeley's School of Information Management and Systems, a past president of the American Society for Information Science, and a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and the National Information Standards Organization. He serves on the National Digital Preservation Strategy Advisory Board of the Library of Congress, and has been a member of U.S. National Research Council committees addressing copyright in the digital environment, broadband deployment, and most recently digital archiving at the National Archives and Records Administration. The Vionovich Award for Information Innovation recently recognized him as "an individual who develops and champions solutions to the problem of connecting people and information effectively and efficiently."

EDUCAUSE is making two $1,000 contributions in Cliff Lynch's name, to the School of Information Management and Systems at the University of California, Berkeley, and to the Paul Evan Peters Fellowship administered by the Coalition for Networked Information. The Peters fellowship assists students pursuing graduate studies in the information sciences or librarianship who demonstrate intellectual and personal qualities consistent with those of Paul Evan Peters, CNI's founding executive director.

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

Professional Development Professional Development Mentoring Information Kit Management and Leadership Offerings Conferences, Seminars, and Institutes Jane N. Ryland Fellowship Program EDUCAUSE Awards Higher Education IT Events Calendar Job Opportunities Volunteer Opportunities		Leadership Awards 2005 Winners Excellence in Leadership Ronald Bleed Vice Chancellor for Information Technologies Maricopa Community College District Professional Background This year's award for Excellence in Leadership goes to Ronald Bleed, vice chancellor for Information Technologies for the Maricopa Community College District. Bleed's distinguished career has provided leadership and service to a variety of constituencies for over 39 years. At the Maricopa Community Colleges, through his executive role as vice chancellor he raised the bar for technology implementation and utilization to the point that Maricopa is nationally recognized as a leader in this arena and an exemplar among community colleges. He was a founder of the League for Innovation's computer conference, which became one of the largest-attended in the field. He has served his profession as chair of the EDUCAUSE Board of Directors for two terms, board chair of CAUSE and vice-chair of Educom, and an important facilitator of the merger of those two organizations. Bleed has brought vision and expertise to the international consulting community, including serving as a visiting scholar for the Salzburg Seminar, and to many corporate advisory councils including those of Microsoft, Apple, HP, and Oracle. His interests in the teaching and learning space extend to original research on large-enrollment courses as the focus for strategies for instructional innovation, serving on the advisory board of MERLOT (the Multimedia Educational Resource for Learning and Online Teaching), supporting library transformations, and introducing new ideas into building architectures. His writings and presentations are many and varied. His leadership is marked by a focus on individuals, especially students, as evidenced in his challenge to "build into our systems and our personal and professional behavior the mentoring capability that supports the making of meaning by the students of this new era." EDUCAUSE is making a $5,000 contribution in Ron Bleed's name to the Maricopa Colleges Foundation for tuition scholarships for students enrolled in digital storytelling courses. This award is sponsored by SunGard SCT, An EDUCAUSE Platinum Partner. Leadership in the Profession Annie Stunden Chief Information Officer University of Wisconsin–Madison Professional Background The 2005 award for Leadership in the Profession goes to Annie Stunden, chief information officer of the University of Wisconsin–Madison. She has demonstrated strong and ground-breaking leadership in the information technology business since her first IT management position 37 years ago. For the past 15 years she has been providing that leadership to higher education IT organizations, serving at the University of Rochester, Northwestern University, and Cornell University before taking on her current role at Wisconsin in 2000. A co-founder and executive director of the Northern Tier Network Consortium, she has also been instrumental in making UW–Madison expertise and resources available to other system campuses through supporting the creation of shared facilities such as Learn@UW, a UW system-wide utility providing course management software for 26 campuses, and IAA, a central identification, authentication, and authorization service for all UW institutions. Stunden has contributed volunteer leadership to such organizations as CREN and CAUSE (serving on the boards of both), the SIGUCCS Management Institute, the Seminars on Academic Computing, the CIC-CIO group, NYSERNet, and the Internet2 Network Planning and Policy Advisory Council, as well as to numerous advisory committees of vendors serving higher education. She has been a popular faculty member of the CAUSE and EDUCAUSE Institutes, and her many presentations receive high marks for her perceptive, colorful, and articulate insights into issues of institutional, organizational, and national importance. Throughout her career, Stunden has aimed to strike the right balance between organizational goals and individual concerns, innovative technologies and ease of use, with a focus on the community and how best to serve the client. A role model and mentor for many who have emerged as leaders in our profession, she has dedicated her higher education career to fostering collaborations among colleagues and leading efforts to provide the best IT environment possible in support of teaching, research, and service. She attributes much of her success as a leader to her candor and commitment to truth telling. EDUCAUSE is making a $2,000 contribution in Annie Stunden's name to the Information Technology Academy (ITA) sponsored by the University of Wisconsin–Madison Division of Information Technology. ITA is a four-year pre-college technology access and training program for talented students of color and economically disadvantaged students attending Madison public schools. This award is sponsored by SunGard SCT, An EDUCAUSE Platinum Partner. Leadership in Public Policy and Practice Clifford A. Lynch Executive Director Coalition for Networked Information Professional Background This year's award for Leadership in Public Policy and Practice goes to Clifford A. Lynch, executive director of the Coalition for Networked Information, an organization dedicated to supporting the transformative promise of networked information technology for the advancement of scholarly communication and the enrichment of intellectual productivity which is co-sponsored by the Association of Research Libraries and EDUCAUSE. Lynch is a leading analyst of technology trends in education, libraries, publishing, and cultural arenas, and an advisor to organizations and leaders involved in those fields. Prior to joining CNI in 1997 he spent 18 years at the University of California Office of the President, the last ten as director of library automation. For well over 20 years he has been at the leading edge, developing studies, practices, and policies that have helped library and IT professionals understand and employ significant innovations in making networked information available to faculty, students, and the general public, with particular attention to the policy implications of technical issues. A prolific writer and speaker, Lynch has worked with leading boards on digital preservation, national and international networking, and intellectual property issues. He is an adjunct professor at UC Berkeley's School of Information Management and Systems, a past president of the American Society for Information Science, and a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and the National Information Standards Organization. He serves on the National Digital Preservation Strategy Advisory Board of the Library of Congress, and has been a member of U.S. National Research Council committees addressing copyright in the digital environment, broadband deployment, and most recently digital archiving at the National Archives and Records Administration. The Vionovich Award for Information Innovation recently recognized him as "an individual who develops and champions solutions to the problem of connecting people and information effectively and efficiently." EDUCAUSE is making two $1,000 contributions in Cliff Lynch's name, to the School of Information Management and Systems at the University of California, Berkeley, and to the Paul Evan Peters Fellowship administered by the Coalition for Networked Information. The Peters fellowship assists students pursuing graduate studies in the information sciences or librarianship who demonstrate intellectual and personal qualities consistent with those of Paul Evan Peters, CNI's founding executive director. This award is sponsored by SunGard SCT, An EDUCAUSE Platinum Partner.
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