2023 Recipient

• Cynthia Golden
  Senior Advisor and Former Associate Provost, University Center for Teaching and Learning, University of Pittsburgh

2022 Recipients

• Michael Berman
  Former CIO, California State University
• Sue B. Workman
  Former Vice President/CIO, Case Western Reserve University, and Leadership Coach

2021 Recipient

• Michele Norin
  Senior Vice President and Chief Information Officer, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey

2020 Recipient

• Jack Suess
  Vice President of Information Technology and Chief Information Officer, University of Maryland, Baltimore County

2019 Recipient

• Linda Jorn
  Associate Vice Provost for Learning Technologies & DoIT Director of Academic Technology, University of Wisconsin–Madison

2018 Recipients

• Richard N. Katz
  Founder and Principal, Richard N. Katz and Associates
• Celeste M. Schwartz
  Vice President for Information Technology and Chief Digital Officer at Montgomery County Community College

2017 Recipient

• Susan Metros
  Founder and Principal, Metros Consulting
  Retired Deputy CIO/Associate Vice Provost for Technology-Enhanced Learning, University of Southern California

2016 Recipients

• William Graves (posthumous)
  Formerly VP at Ellucian and Founder and Director, Institute of Academic Technology
• Donald Z. Spicer
  Associate Vice Chancellor and CIO, University System of Maryland

2015 Recipient

• James Hilton
  Dean of Libraries and Vice Provost for Digital Education and Innovation
  University of Michigan–Ann Arbor

2014 Recipient

• Gordon Wishon
  Chief Information Officer
  Arizona State University

2013 Recipient

• Brad Wheeler
  Vice President for IT, CIO, and Professor of Business
  Indiana University

2012 Recipients

• Earving L. Blythe
  Retired Vice President for Information Technology and CIO
  Virginia Tech


• David G. Swartz
  Assistant Vice President and CIO
  American University

2011 Recipients

• Marilyn A. McMillan
  Vice President for Information Technology and Chief Information Technology Officer
  New York University


• Robyn M. Render (posthumous)
  Former Vice Chancellor for Information Technology and iNtegrate Project Director
  Nevada System of Higher Education

2010 Recipient

• Ira H. Fuchs
  Former Vice President and Program Officer for Research in Information Technology
  The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation

2009 Recipient

• Seminars on Academic Computing (1970–2007)
  Snowmass, Colorado

2008 Recipient

• Joel L. Hartman
  Vice Provost
  Information Technologies and Resources
  University of Central Florida

2007 Recipient

• Gregory A. Jackson
  Vice President & CIO
  University of Chicago

2006 Recipients

• Daniel A. Updegrove
  Vice President for Information Technology
  University of Texas at Austin
• Howard J. Strauss
  (posthumous award)
  former Manager of Academic Outreach
  Princeton University

2005 Recipients

Excellence in Leadership

• Ronald Bleed
  Vice Chancellor for Information Technologies
  Maricopa Community College District

Leadership in the Profession

• Annie Stunden
  Chief Information Officer
  University of Wisconsin?Madison

Leadership in Public Policy and Practice

• Clifford A. Lynch
  Executive Director
  Coalition for Networked Information

2004 Recipients

Excellence in Leadership

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

Leadership in the Profession

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

2003 Recipients

Excellence in Leadership

• Polley Ann McClure
  Vice President, Information Technologies
  Cornell University

Leadership in the Profession

• Martin Ringle
  Chief Technology Officer
  Reed College

Leadership in Information Technologies

• Kenneth J. Klingenstein
  Project Director, Internet2 Middleware Initiative
  and Chief Technologist, University of Colorado at Boulder

2002 Recipients

Excellence in Leadership

• Douglas Van Houweling
  President and CEO
  Internet2

Leadership in the Profession

• Diane P. Balestri
  (posthumous award)
  Former Vice President, Computing and Information Services
  Vassar College

Leadership in Public Policy and Practice

• Kenneth C. Green
  Director
  The Campus Computing Project

2001 Recipients

Excellence in Leadership

• J. Gary Augustson
  Vice Provost for Information Technology
  The Pennsylvania State University

Leadership in Information Technology

• Carl F. Berger
  Director, Advanced Academic Technologies
  University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
• Carl W. Jacobson
  Director, MIS
  University of Delaware

2000 Recipients

Excellence in Leadership

• Ira H. Fuchs
  Vice President for Research in Information Technology
  The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation

Leadership in the Profession

• Jerry Niebaum
  Assistant Vice Chancellor for Information Services
  University of Kansas
• David L. Smallen
  Director, Information Technology Services
  Hamilton College

Leadership in Information Technologies

• Jeffrey I. Schiller
  Network Manager
  MIT

1999 Recipient

Excellence in Leadership

• Michael M. Roberts
  Interim President and CEO
  Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN)

CAUSE ELITE Award (for Exemplary Leadership and Information Technology Excellence)

1998 Recipient

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

1997 Recipient (posthumous award)

• Paul Evan Peters
  Executive Director
  Coalition for Networked Information

1996 Recipient

• Patricia Battin
  Consultant

1995 Recipient

• Carole A. Barone
  Associate Vice Chancellor for Information Technology
  University of California, Davis

1994 Recipient

• Robert C. Heterick, Jr.
  President
  Educom

1993 Recipient

• Albert L. LeDuc
  Director of Computer Services
  Miami-Dade Community College

1992 Recipient

• Bernard W. Gleason
  Executive Director, Information Technology
  Boston College

1991 Recipient

• Brian L. Hawkins
  Vice President, Academic Planning and Administration
  Brown University

CAUSE Recognition Awards

1990 Recipient

• Thomas W. West
  Assistant Vice Chancellor, Information Resources and Technology
  California State University System

1989 Recipients

Institutional Leadership

• David P. Roselle
  University of Kentucky

Distinguished Service

• Charles R. Thomas
  NCHEMS

1988 Recipient

Institutional and National Levels

• Joseph A. Catrambone
  Loyola University

1987 Recipients

Institutional Level

• Frank B. Campanella
  Boston College

National Level

• James I. Penrod
  The California State University/Los Angeles

1986 Recipients

Institutional Level

• Charles H. Naginey
  The Pennsylvania State University

National Level

• Douglas E. Van Houweling
  University of Michigan

1985 Recipients

Institutional Level

• Erwin M. Danziger
  University of North Carolina/Chapel Hill

National Level

• William E. Lavery
  Virginia Tech

1984 Recipients

Exemplary Leadership

• James L. Morgan
  State University System of Florida

Professional Excellence

• Wayne O. Ostendorf
  Iowa State University

1983 Recipients

Exemplary Leadership

• Vinod Chachra
  Virginia Tech

Professional Excellence

• Patricia C. Skarulis
  Duke University

1982 Recipients

Exemplary Leadership

• Joe B. Wyatt
  Vanderbilt University

Professional Excellence

• Carl Gochenour
  University of Iowa

1981 Recipients

Exemplary Leadership

• David J. Lyons
  The Rockefeller University

Professional Excellence

• John F. Chaney
  Higher Education Consultant

1980 Recipients

Exemplary Leadership

• Ronald W. Brady
  University of Illinois

Professional Excellence

• Michael M. Roberts
  Stanford University