Announcing the appointment of Vice Chancellor for Information Technology

I am psyched to announce that Aisha Jackson will provide as our upcoming Vice Chancellor for Information Technologies. Her to start with day will be Aug. 1.

Aisha is a collaborative leader who provides to our campus and leadership staff a prosperity of working experience in higher-training details technology. She is at present the College of Colorado Boulder’s 1st-at any time Assistant Vice Provost and Assistant Vice Chancellor for Academic Know-how and Scholar Achievement. Her present-day position was established to make certain the ongoing improvement of campus know-how to serve both equally school and college students. It is a distinctive position in that it bridges the tutorial and administrative areas of the college, with operational oversight of educational technological innovation and student-achievement analytics as well as some administrative platforms. This working experience will be handy as Aisha continues work already underway to entail our Info Know-how division in initiatives to obtain our campus goals of advancing scholar results elevating our study profile fostering an inclusive campus local weather and strengthening the performance, efficiency, resilience, and sustainability of our operations.

Aisha has spent the past dozen years at CU Boulder, doing the job in various director and supervisor positions in the university’s Workplace of Data Technological innovation. She started her occupation in information and facts technological innovation at the College of the West Indies, St. Augustine Campus, Trinidad and Tobago. She acquired a doctorate in education and learning from the University of Colorado, Denver a master’s in training from the College of Florida, Gainesville and a bachelor of arts in elementary education from Flagler Faculty in Florida.

I am grateful to interim Vice Chancellor for Information Technological innovation Byron Walker, who has served as interim CIO because August, when previous VC-IT Van Williams was named main info officer and vice president for details technological know-how expert services for the College of California system. Byron has labored with management, college, employees and learners throughout campus on how finest to leverage technologies in means that aid training, learning, exploration and discovery, while also supporting all aspects of campus functions.

I am also grateful to the search advisory committee, chaired by College Extension Dean PK Agarwal and Vice Chancellor for College Relations Mark Delos Reyes Davis, for its do the job examining candidates and furnishing suggestions and feed-back at each stage of the lookup procedure.

Thank you, as effectively, to the many associates of our campus neighborhood who delivered useful responses throughout the stakeholder-engagement system ahead of we introduced the lookup, then again right after conference with our candidates. The enter was extremely handy.

Please be part of me in welcoming Aisha and congratulating her on joining our campus community!