Lucinda Lea

Biography

In 2002, Lucinda Lea was named Middle Tennessee State University Vice President for Information Technology and CIO. As a member of the president's cabinet, she assumed responsibility for strategic and tactical planning in all facets of IT. She led the Information Technology Division in providing the services of academic and administrative computing, instructional technology, web applications, networking and telecommunications, and the campus ID system. In 2010, Ms. Lea retired from Middle Tennessee State University with 37 years of service to the institution. Upon retirement she was named Vice President for Information Technology and CIO Emeritus. Ms. Lea has given presentations and papers, nationally and regionally, describing campus innovations in information technology, and she has served on numerous IT boards. In 1996, she founded the Instructional Technology Conference, held annually at MTSU. She was the recipient of the 2002 Distinguished Service Award in Tennessee Higher Education Computing. Lucinda served as an elected member of the EDUCAUSE Board from 2006-2009. In 2008, she was elected vice chair of the Board, and, in 2009, she was elected and served as chair of the EDUCAUSE Board. She also served on the advisory board of the EDUCAUSE Learning Initiative. Ms. Lea served on the Seminars on Academic Computing (SAC) Advisory Board (2002-2005) and as SAC Board Chair in 2004-2005. She was a member of the Research Task Force commissioned by EDUCAUSE to examine avenues for collection and dissemination of core institutional data for higher education institutions. The process culminated in the creation of the EDUCAUSE Core Data Service. She was program chair for the 2003 EDUCAUSE Southeast Regional Conference and served as program chair for the 2005 EDUCAUSE Conference. Ms. Lea has served as a council member of the Hawkins Leadership Roundtable in 2010, 2011, and 2012. Other experience includes: MTSU Assistant Vice President for Information Technology; Director of the MTSU Office of Information Technology; MTSU Academic Computing Manager; and Systems Programmer, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA. She holds undergraduate and graduate degrees in mathematics.

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Memberships

EDUCAUSE ELI Primary Representative

EDUCAUSE Involvement

  • Hawkins Leadership Roundtable 2012 Council
    • Member: 2012
  • Hawkins Leadership Roundtable 2011
    • Member: 2011
  • Hawkins Leadership Roundtable 2010
    • Member: 2010
  • Nominations and Leadership Development Committee
    • Ex Officio: 2008
    • Member: 2009 - 2010
  • EDUCAUSE Board of Directors
    • Member: 2006 - 2009
    • Chair: 2009
    • Vice Chair: 2008
  • Teaching and Learning Advisory Committee
    • Member: 2006 - 2009
  • Broadband Policy Group
    • Member: 2005 - 2011
  • SAC Board of Directors
    • Member: 2002 - 2005
    • Ex Officio: 2005 - 2006
    • Chair: 2004 - 2005
  • SAC Exec
    • Member: 2005
  • SAC Facilitators
    • Member: 2005
  • SAC Program Committee
    • Member: 2004 - 2005
    • Ex Officio: 2004 - 2005
  • Balestri Memorial SAC Scholarship
    • Member: 2004 - 2006
  • EDUCAUSE 2005 Program Committee
    • Chair: 2004 - 2006
    • Member: 2004 - 2006
  • Southeast Regional Conference Program Committee
    • Ex Officio: 2003 - 2004
    • Member: 2002 - 2003
    • Chair: 2002 - 2003
  • EDUCAUSE 2004 Program Committee
    • Member: 2003 - 2005
    • Vice Chair: 2003 - 2005
  • Research Task Force
    • Member: 2001 - 2004
  • SAC 2002 Program Committee
    • Member: 2001 - 2002