Art St. George, manager of Advanced Communications Technologies for UNM’s Computer Information Resource Technology (CIRT), was recently named chair of EDUCAUSE’s Evolving Technologies Committee. The Evolving Technologies Committee is charged with the identification of developing technologies and the evaluation of their impact on higher education for the EDUCAUSE community.
Members of this committee are generally responsible for technology development and implementation on their campuses, especially from a research and development perspective.
EDUCAUSE is a nonprofit association with a current membership comprised of more than 2,000 colleges, universities and educational organizations, including 200 corporations, with more 15,000 active members. Its mission is to advance higher education by promoting the intelligent use of information technology.
St. George has been a member of the Evolving Technologies Committee since 2004 and will oversee a number of responsibilities as chair including the approval of reports of committee meetings before distribution; reporting to the committee on decisions of the Board or of executive staff that affect the committee's work; guide the committee in proposing new activities and service that will further the mission and goals of the association; and make policy recommendations to the president for transmission to the Board when appropriate.
Some of EDUCAUSE’s major initiatives include: ECAR, a Center for Applied Research that provide subscribers with timely research and analysis to help higher education leaders make better decisions about IT; NET@edu, which promotes the development of advanced networking in higher education through member activities spanning the spectrum of academic networking; ELI, the EDUCAUSE Learning Initiative which supports new collegiate learning environments that use IT to improve the quality of teaching and learning, contain or reduce rising costs and provide greater access to higher education; and .edu Administration, which covers policies and processes for managing the .edu Internet domain.
Media Contact: Steve Carr, (505) 277-1821; e-mail: scarr@unm.edu