Ellen J. Waite-Franzen, vice president for information technology and chief information officer, oversees Dartmouth's IT services, including:
Waite-Franzen has worked for more than a decade in information and technology services. Waite-Franzen joined Dartmouth after working as the vice president for Brown's computing and information services, where she implemented a major upgrade of Brown's campus network and e-mail system, and established a security infrastructure.
Before joining the administration at Brown, she was the vice president for information services at the University of Richmond, Va., and the vice president for academic services at Loyola University in Chicago.
She also served as associate director of libraries and university librarian at Loyola. Waite-Franzen is a member of the EDUCAUSE board of directors and is currently the treasurer. She has served as a consultant to numerous higher education advisory committees concerning information technology (IT) and library operations.
She holds a B.A. from the University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh and an M.A. in library and information science from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.