Presentation at 10 AM Jones Auditorium,
“Integrating Tradition and Technology”

(Presentation Handout)

Question and Answer, 1:00 PM in Harris 110

Reception in SMB atrium at 2:00 PM
(Sponsored by Center for Women in Science and Mathematics)

Dr. Diana G. Oblinger, as Vice President for EDUCAUSE, is responsible for the association’s teaching and learning activities to promote the intelligent use of information technology in the learning environment. Membership in the organization comprises nearly 2,000 colleges, universities and education organizations, including 200 corporations.

Previously, Dr. Oblinger has been the Vice President for Information Resources and the Chief Information Officer for the University of North Carolina system, responsible for strategic planning and policy development for information technology. On the faculty at the University of Missouri-Columbia and at Michigan State University, she served as an academic dean and was recognized for her work in student recruitment, retention, faculty development and student computing. At Microsoft she served as the Executive Director of Higher Education, and at IBM, she was Director of the Institute for Academic Technology. She is co-author of What Business Wants from Higher Education and has co-edited six books including The Learning Revolution, and Educating the Net Generation.

She serves on the National Science Foundation’s Directorate of Education and Human Resources, the NSF Advisory Committee on Cyberinfrastructure, and the editorial board of Open Learning. She chairs the National Visiting Committee for the National Science Digital Library project for National Science Foundation.