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Ellen J. Waite-Franzen, the vice president for computing and information
services at Brown University, has been named vice president for information
technology at Dartmouth. Waite-Franzen will bring more than 10 years of
information and technology services experience to her new post, which she will
assume on October 15.
Ellen Waite-Franzen
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Waite-Franzen will lead Dartmouth's computing services, which encompasses
all computing infrastructure and architecture, applications development, and
instructional and research support.
"Dartmouth's heritage and ambition is to take a leadership role in
developing and providing technology that advances the work of our students,
faculty, and staff," says President James Wright. "I
look forward to working with Ellen Waite-Franzen to maintain this ambitious and
energetic pace."
As the vice president for Brown's computing and information
services, Waite-Franzen was responsible for the university's technology
environment, including academic and scholarly technology services and support,
network services, telecommunications, administrative systems, and technology
training and support. 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.
"This is an exciting time for IT professionals as this realm enjoys
tremendous advances," says Waite-Franzen. "I'm eager to begin working
with the professionals at Dartmouth to take advantage of the latest technology
in the spirit of Dartmouth's mission: delivering a top notch education to all
students enrolled."
Dartmouth Provost Barry
Scherr says, "Ellen has exceptional experience in higher education
computing that will certainly benefit Dartmouth. We look forward to her
leadership in meeting the challenges that face this complex and ever-evolving
area and in assuring that Dartmouth's technology environment is among the very
best of any educational institution."
"Ellen's ability to see the big picture and understand how information
technology can be used to enable all aspects of the College's mission is very
impressive," says Martin
Wybourne, vice provost for research and chair of the search committee for
the vice president for information technology. "With her leadership and
national stature, I look forward to Dartmouth remaining at the forefront of IT
use in higher education."
Dartmouth's legacy of
leadership in computing began in the late 1940s, when the College
demonstrated the first remote access to a digital computer. In 1955,
mathematician John McCarthy, then at Dartmouth, coined the term
"artificial intelligence" and hosted a two-month summer conference on
the subject in 1956. In 1964, mathematicians John Kemeny and Thomas Kurtz
developed the time-sharing prototype and the popular and widely used computer
language, BASIC.
More recently, the College has deployed one of the nation's leading campus
network infrastructures. In 2001, Dartmouth was the first Ivy League
institution to have a fully wireless campus, and Dartmouth's Class of
2009 was the first generation of Dartmouth students to experience a totally
"converged" campus environment that supplies Internet (both wired and
wireless), cable television (DarTV), and phone service (VoIP) through the
Dartmouth computer network.
By SUSAN KNAPP
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