Cynthia Golden is a senior advisor to the University Center for Teaching and Learning (UCTL) at the University of Pittsburgh. She most recently served as Associate Provost and as Executive Director of the UCTL and a center associate in the Learning Research and Development Center at Pitt. She came to Pitt in 2009 after serving for over eight years as vice president of EDUCAUSE. She previously held CIO and senior IT leadership roles at Duquesne University, MIT, and Carnegie Mellon University.
Along with UMBC CIO Jack Suess, she currently co-hosts the EDUCUASE podcast "The Integrative CIO." In recent years she has been active in professional leadership development and directed the Senior Directors Seminar and the Senior Leadership Roundtable at EDUCAUSE, was a faculty member in the EDUCAUSE New IT Mangers program, and was a faculty member in the OLC Institute for Engaged Leadership in Online Learning (IELOL.)
She is a frequent presenter at conferences, author of numerous articles and monographs, and author and editor of the book Cultivating Careers: Professional Development for Campus IT. She served on the Board of Directors of the New Media Consortium, the IMS Global Learning Consortium, the Seminars on Academic Computing, the Northeast Regional Computing Consortium, and CAUSE, and served as a member of many professional and association committees throughout her career. She is a proud alumna of the University of Pittsburgh, where she earned a Master of Science in Information Science. (updated 7/2023)
Hosts Cynthia and Jack welcome University of Hawaii President David Lassner, as well as his Chief Information Officer, Garret Yoshimi. They discuss the relationship between President and CIO.
Hosts Cynthia and Jack talk with Vince Kellen, CIO at the University of California, San Diego.
Hosts Cynthia and Jack talk with Lois Brooks, CIO and Vice Provost for Information Technology at the University of Wisconsin, Madison about using professional relationships to accomplish more goals.
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