Donna Tatro

Biography

Donna has been at Princeton University since 1995 in various roles, progressively increasing her scope of responsibilities. She became Associate Chief Information Officer for Enterprise Infrastructure in 2014. Donna is passionate about the mission of higher education and working at Princeton. She fosters teamwork and collaboration and takes pride when success is achieved by members of the team. She is highly focused and fully committed to helping Princeton achieve its mission through the work with campus stakeholders to shape the University's technological infrastructures to meet the needs of the university community. In 2024, Donna began work with key campus colleagues to consider and evaluate the use of AI/generative AI in administrative departments. In March 2025, she began serving in the role of interim Chief Information Security Officer. Before Princeton, she worked in the central IT organization at Cornell University as Assistant Director for User Services and Departmental Computing. Every day she looks forward to early, early mornings on the water rowing (or on the “erg” when the weather turns cold) and then walks with her Labrador Retriever. Donna holds an MS from Cornell University and an MBA from Drexel University.

EDUCAUSE Publications

  • Lessons Learned--and To Be Learned
    • Article
    • Author

    If you've ever thought that learning more about how your organization operates might help you become more successful in your role, I recommend pursuing an MBA.

  • Strategizing About Change
    • Article
    • Author

    Some years ago the communications director at my institution gave a presentation on the keys to good communications and the ways to make sure your message is heard: Keep your message short and simple.

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Membership with EDUCAUSE

Status: Yes, current member

EDUCAUSE Involvement

  • ECAR Total Cost of Ownership for Cloud Services Group
    • Member: 2013 - 2016
  • CIA Community Group Steering Committee
    • Member: 2013 - 2014
  • ACTI Optimizing Computing Infrastructure Working Group
    • Member: 2011 - 2012
  • ACTI Communication, Collaboration, & Mobility Working Group
    • Member: 2011 - 2013