I was fortunate to be invited to be in a panel titled “Evolution of the CIO: IT leadership for the smart, sustainable campus” along with Klara Jelinkova from Harvard and Lev Gonick from Arizona State University. Unfortunately Lev could not join us, so it was just Klara and me. It was moderated by Sara Custer.

I want to share some of the things we discussed and possibly things I really wanted to say but may not have. Bottom line, whether it is Harvard or Wellesley, there is so much similarity in terms of what the CIOs have to manage. However, the scale and some of the details are distinctly different.

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