EDUCAUSE Honors Higher Education IT Achievements

released August 26, 2003

At its annual conference this November in Anaheim, Calif., EDUCAUSE will recognize outstanding contributions in the use of information technology to support and advance higher education.

EDUCAUSE will honor three individuals with Leadership Awards: Polley Ann McClure, vice president of information technologies for Cornell University (Excellence in Leadership); Martin Ringle, chief technology officer of Reed College (Leadership in the Profession); and Kenneth J. Klingenstein, chief technologist at the University of Colorado at Boulder and project director of the Internet2 Middleware Initiative (Leadership in Information Technologies).

The EDUCAUSE Quarterly Contribution of the Year Award will be given to Ali Jafari, professor of computer and information technology and director of CyberLab at Indiana University-Purdue University, Indianapolis, for the publication of "Conceptualizing Intelligent Agents for Teaching and Learning" (vol. 25, No. 3, 2002).

Two programs will be granted the Award for Systemic Progress in Teaching and Learning: the ATLAS (Alliance for Technology, Learning, and Society) Institute at the University of Colorado at Boulder and the 361 Degree Program at DePauw University. ATLAS provides interdisciplinary educational and research programs in digital media, educational technology, and societal impacts that are designed to make information technology relevant and accessible to all people and communities. The DePauw program is designed to guarantee that all of the university's students, faculty, and staff will be equipped for the digital age.

The Award for Excellence in Networking also has two winners. Indiana University and Purdue University share the award for I-Light, a cross-state fiber optic network linking Indiana University at Bloomington, IUPUI in Indianapolis, and Purdue University in West Lafayette, to each other, the Internet, and Internet2. The second winner is the State University of New York at Cortland for the construction of a converged IP voice/video/data layer-3 network.

The two winners of the Award for Excellence in Administrative Information Systems are the University of British Columbia for an innovative program that allows qualified students to admit themselves over the Internet and George Washington University for its online housing selection program. For more information on the 2003 award winners, see http://www.educause.edu/news/2003/08/awards.asp.

For more information on EDUCAUSE, go to http://www.educause.edu/.

 

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