A moderated polemic on the demise of the Canadian Higher Education CIO
Bo Wandschneider
Queen's University
Bo Wandschneider is the CIO and Associate Vice Principal of Information Technology at Queen's University. Bo has spent close to 30 years working in Higher Education Information Technology, beginning with providing Statistical Computing support in an Academic unit, to working with OCUL on various data management projects, to his current role as CIO at Queen's University. Bo currently sits on the CUCCIO Board, is active in various collaborative projects, is a frequent presenter at various professional forums and occasionally writes a blog at http://www.queensu.ca/connect/cio/home.
Mark Roman
Simon Fraser University
Mark Roman serves as the Chief Information Officer at Simon Fraser University and he is also the President of the Canadian University Council of Chief Information Officers (CUCCIO). Most recently, Mark served as the Associate Vice-President of Information and Communications Technology and Chief Information Officer for the University of Saskatchewan (USask). He was also previous Chair of the Board of Saskatchewan Research Network Inc. (SRNET), and previous Chair of the Board of BCNET. Prior to his position at uSask, Mark was the owner of 22over7, a higher education IT management consulting organization, and was previously CIO at the University of Victoria, and Executive Director of Enterprise Systems at Carleton University. He holds a B.Math (Computer Science) from the University of Waterloo, an MBA (Finance) from Queen’s University, and is a Project Management Professional (PMP). Mark is married with three children, five computers, and seven guitars. He is an occasional author writing about management and IT and has had a lifelong interest in military history. His other hobby is cycling and he looks forward to riding up Burnaby Mountain as soon as he can summon up the courage.
Art Exner
University of Regina
Art Exner presently holds a position as Director in the central IT department of the University of Regina. Art's current responsibilities include IT infrastructure and facilities, research computing support, and information security for the IT organization. Art has considerable experience in higher ed personnel classification and compensation models, serves on the Boards of CUCCIO and SRNet, is a member of the CIO Advisory Committee to CANARIE, and is the CIO liaison for the CUCCIO Information Security Special Interest Group.
Abstract
Over the last year and a bit almost 25% of the active CIO’s in CUCCIO, and around half of the CIO’s at U15 schools have left their positions for a variety of reasons. Some have retired, some have changed schools, some... [ view full abstract ]
Authors
- Bo Wandschneider (Queen's University)
- Mark Roman (Simon Fraser University)
- Art Exner (University of Regina)
Topic Area
IT in Higher Education: Other
Session
CAN1.2M » IT Leadership (11:15 - Monday, 20th June, CCIS L2-190)
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