Winner: 1998 CAUSE ELITE Award

John W. McCredie
Associate Vice Chancellor
Information Systems and Technology
University of California, Berkeley

Jack McCredie's professional career spans more than three decades of university, association, and corporate leadership. His achievements are characterized by extraordinary organizational management skills, personal creativity and productivity, and contributions to endeavors that have reflected turning points in the history of technology.

As vice provost for information services and planning at Carnegie Mellon University in the 1970s, Dr. McCredie was one of the first to unify computing, planning, and libraries into an integrated research, library, instruction, and administrative information processing environment. His efforts to bring computing to every student and staff member resulted in a model for many other higher education institutions.

During his four-and-a-half year presidency of Educom, from 1980 to 1984, Dr. McCredie emphasized resource and information sharing among institutions, with particular attention to computer networks, consulting services, and evaluating new technologies for teaching and learning. He initiated a Campus Strategies series of monographs and helped to develop the Educom conference from a small specialty meeting into a major national education event. Instrumental in arranging for the IBM grant to operate the BITNET Network Information Center, a catalyst for rapid development of worldwide networking, he helped to focus Educom on emerging networking initiatives.

In the corporate world from 1984 to 1992, Dr. McCredie chaired the committee that coordinated Digital Equipment Corporation's global relationships with higher education. His work as director of Digital's External Research Program was crucial in supporting the transfer of results from hundreds of university technology research projects throughout the world to a broader community, including Digital's own research and development groups and products. Perhaps the most influential of these activities were the ideas and software that came out of MIT's Project Athena, a program to integrate computing into the undergraduate educational experience, which yielded such innovations as X Windows, Kerberos, and a scalable distributed computing architecture.

When Jack joined the Berkeley campus in 1992, he initiated a complete review of the campus's use of information technology. Under his leadership the campus has rapidly moved forward in using educational technology and electronic information resources while absorbing significant reductions in state budgetary support, and now has more than 36,000 network connections, more than four times the number in 1992. Internally, the Berkeley information technology organization has invested in a cycle of activities to improve its own work environment and become more productive: planning, focusing on customer service, restructuring, measuring staff morale, and developing shared values and change management skills. It is also the technical partner in a large campus-wide program to replace and rebuild the financial and human resources management systems.

His activities are not limited to the Berkeley campus. In addition to service on CAUSE committees and presentations at CAUSE and Educom conferences and the Seminars on Academic Computing, he is a founding member of the board of directors of the Corporation for Education Network Initiatives in California, the state's regional network. He chairs the Yale University Council Committee on Information Technology, and is a member of computing review committees for both Carnegie Mellon and the University of California, Davis. He is a charter member of the PeopleSoft Higher Education Strategic Advisory Council, a member of the Academic Advisory Council of the California Virtual University Foundation Board, and a Berkeley representative to the University of California Systemwide Library and Scholarly Information Advisory Committee. Recently he was appointed to a three-year term on the Panel for Information Technology of the National Research Council.

Jack McCredie has been able to bring insights and experiences from each of his many roles and apply them wisely in new settings, to the benefit of our profession and the people who have the pleasure of working with him.

Jack's Personal Web Site
Including Professional Biography

As part of this award, $5,000 has been contributed in Jack McCredie's name to the Incentive Awards Program at the University of California, Berkeley--a program to bring a Berkeley education within reach for high school students who, despite great socioeconomic hardship, exhibit exceptional academic promise and leadership potential

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As vice provost for information services and planning at Carnegie Mellon University in the 1970s, Dr. McCredie was one of the first to unify computing, planning, and libraries into an integrated research, library, instruction, and administrative information processing environment. His efforts to bring computing to every student and staff member resulted in a model for many other higher education institutions. During his four-and-a-half year presidency of Educom, from 1980 to 1984, Dr. McCredie emphasized resource and information sharing among institutions, with particular attention to computer networks, consulting services, and evaluating new technologies for teaching and learning. He initiated a Campus Strategies series of monographs and helped to develop the Educom conference from a small specialty meeting into a major national education event. Instrumental in arranging for the IBM grant to operate the BITNET Network Information Center, a catalyst for rapid development of worldwide networking, he helped to focus Educom on emerging networking initiatives. In the corporate world from 1984 to 1992, Dr. McCredie chaired the committee that coordinated Digital Equipment Corporation's global relationships with higher education. His work as director of Digital's External Research Program was crucial in supporting the transfer of results from hundreds of university technology research projects throughout the world to a broader community, including Digital's own research and development groups and products. Perhaps the most influential of these activities were the ideas and software that came out of MIT's Project Athena, a program to integrate computing into the undergraduate educational experience, which yielded such innovations as X Windows, Kerberos, and a scalable distributed computing architecture. When Jack joined the Berkeley campus in 1992, he initiated a complete review of the campus's use of information technology. Under his leadership the campus has rapidly moved forward in using educational technology and electronic information resources while absorbing significant reductions in state budgetary support, and now has more than 36,000 network connections, more than four times the number in 1992. Internally, the Berkeley information technology organization has invested in a cycle of activities to improve its own work environment and become more productive: planning, focusing on customer service, restructuring, measuring staff morale, and developing shared values and change management skills. It is also the technical partner in a large campus-wide program to replace and rebuild the financial and human resources management systems. His activities are not limited to the Berkeley campus. In addition to service on CAUSE committees and presentations at CAUSE and Educom conferences and the Seminars on Academic Computing, he is a founding member of the board of directors of the Corporation for Education Network Initiatives in California, the state's regional network. He chairs the Yale University Council Committee on Information Technology, and is a member of computing review committees for both Carnegie Mellon and the University of California, Davis. He is a charter member of the PeopleSoft Higher Education Strategic Advisory Council, a member of the Academic Advisory Council of the California Virtual University Foundation Board, and a Berkeley representative to the University of California Systemwide Library and Scholarly Information Advisory Committee. Recently he was appointed to a three-year term on the Panel for Information Technology of the National Research Council. Jack McCredie has been able to bring insights and experiences from each of his many roles and apply them wisely in new settings, to the benefit of our profession and the people who have the pleasure of working with him. Jack's Personal Web Site Including Professional Biography As part of this award, $5,000 has been contributed in Jack McCredie's name to the Incentive Awards Program at the University of California, Berkeley--a program to bring a Berkeley education within reach for high school students who, despite great socioeconomic hardship, exhibit exceptional academic promise and leadership potential
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