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Highlight a Woman: Mary Lou Hines Fritts
By Brenda Bethman My institution is rare in having a female CIO (nationally, only 23% of CIOs in higher education are female, according to Campus Technology) — her name is Mary Lou Hines Fritts and she was kind enough to agree to answer my questions for this month’s “highligt a woman in tech” post. I’ve [...]
IT: Gatekeepers or Visionaries?
by Kristen Abell Yesterday during the #satech chat, the topic came up of the role of IT folks in implementing new technologies on campuses. One of the things that continues to be a struggle for many of us is the fact that we are woefully behind in the IT world – not just behind other [...]
Student Affairs Women and Technology: Embracing the Fear
How do you see student affairs as a whole encouraging women in technology? In what ways do we NOT do a good job encouraging women in technology? When I saw the blog prompt for today, I was excited to have the opportunity to respond. I have been working with technology for the entire decade I [...]
Technology: An Individual and Collective Journey
By Meghann Martinez As I venture into student affairs technology with a lot of passion and support I can’t help but run into processes and policies. Yup, you guessed it, politics within higher education. I’ve worked at two universities in the past which had very decentralized social media and web policies. This included no university-wide [...]
Why Don’t We See More Women Working in Technology in Higher Education?
By Kathryn Magura This past July, I was sent to a training on the door access system we use on our campus. I was prepared to spend four full days learning the intricacies of this system, but what I was not prepared for was being the sole female in the 20-person training group. The shock [...]
