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2012 EDUCAUSE Award Recipients

The Leadership Award

Earving L. Blythe

For advancing the interlocking systems of technical, financial, professional, social, and political processes that brought about fundamental and disruptive change.

Retired Vice President for Information Technology and CIO, Virginia Tech

The Rising Star Award

Melissa Woo

For demonstrating excellence in cyberinfrastructure and support for the research enterprise, IT organizational development and effective practices, and IT infrastructure deployment and management.

Vice Provost for Information Services and CIO, University of Oregon

David G. Swartz

For advancing best practices in IT service management, strategic planning, project management, information security, technology operations, and enterprise infrastructure life-cycle planning.

Assistant Vice President and CIO, American University

Thank you to

Moran Technology Consulting, Silver Partner, is proud to sponsor the recognition of the future IT leaders who will transform the meaning of information technology at our institutions, while also recognizing the strong foundation that our current IT leaders have created for this future.

About EDUCAUSE Awards

The EDUCAUSE Awards Program, under the guidance of the Recognition Committee, brings peer endorsement and distinction to professional accomplishments in higher education IT.

The Leadership Award is our highest recognition for individual achievement and is awarded annually. This award acknowledges and celebrates exemplary leadership that has a significant and positive impact on advancing the theory and practice of information technology in higher education.

The Community Leadership Award, new in 2013, recognizes members for their roles as community leaders and active volunteers in professional service to the broader higher education information technology community.

The Rising Star Award, introduced in 2011, recognizes an information technology professional who, while early in his or her career, demonstrates exceptional leadership and accomplishment in the area of information technology in higher education.

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