DoIT director named to national board

Kathy Christoph, director of academic technology solutions at the Division of Information Technology, was elected chair of the board of directors of EDUCAUSE, a national nonprofit organization that advances higher education by promoting intelligent use of information technology.

Christoph will serve as chair during 2004. At DoIT, Christoph helps support about 40,000 students, and 3,500 faculty and instructional staff in using technology in teaching and research.

Christoph co-chaired the EDUCAUSE Advisory Committee on Teaching and Learning, chaired the Seminars on Academic Computing board, represents UW–Madison in the National Learning Infrastructure Initiative, and serves on the Syllabus magazine and The Technology Source editorial boards.

She is past chair of the Learning Technologies Initiative for the Committee on Institutional Cooperation and of the UW System Learning Technology Development Council. Christoph also serves on the Academic Advanced Distributed Learning Co-Lab Commission and is sponsor of the Learn@UW utility that delivers the Desire2Learn content management system to 14 University of Wisconsin institutions.

She notes that two other EDUCAUSE board members have Wisconsin ties: David Ward, former UW–Madison chancellor and now president of the American Council on Education, and Mark Luker, former chief information officer and director of DoIT at UW–Madison and now EDUCAUSE vice president.

“This shows UW–Madison’s leadership in the higher-education community,” Christoph says.