Beth Rugg

Biography

Beth Rugg is the Chief Workplace AI Officer & Assistant Vice Chancellor for Client Engagement at UNC Charlotte. She is responsibile for spearheading university-wide initiatives to build AI literacy and fluency across the administrative community. She is responsible for user services including the Service Desk, desktop support, endpoint management, training, documentation and communication. 

She has more than 25 years of IT leadership and project management experience and is a graduate of Cornell University.

She champions service and support and, in addition to her current duties, has extensive experience with lab management, instructional support and design, digital media production, technology acquisition and vendor management. 

Beth gives back to the community in many ways. She partners with Educause, has serverd as faculty member for the Educause Executive Leaders Academy and the Senior Directors program as well as been on program committees and working groups.  She was an Executive Board member of the Association for Computing Machinery Special Interest Group for University and College Computing Services (ACM SIGUCCS), led their professional development program for many years and received the 2023 Penny Crane Award recipient for distinguished service.

Beth strives to design simple solutions to meet complex needs. She is passionate about stakeholder engagement, relationship building and usability.

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