Biography

R. J. Clougherty, Jr. is the CIO at Drew University as part of Campus Works, a managed service provider.  Previously he led his own consulting comany--2tothe6thpower.  Before that he was Vice President for Technology, Design and Innovation at Felician University.  He served as Provost for Glasgow Caledonian New York College. Previously he served as Acting Vice Provost for Research, Innovation, and Open Education and Dean of the School for Graduate Studies at SUNY Empire State College. He was the Founding Director of the Institute for Technological Scholarship and the Director of the Tennessee Advanced Computing Technologies Institute, both at Tennessee Tech University, where he also founded and directed the Web Design program. He was a tenured full professor in the English department where he spent seven years directing the graduate programs. As a scholar, Dr. Clougherty was a Fulbright Hayes Senior Scholar to the University of Uppsala in 1997, and his work, both his academic writing as well as his poetry, has been translated into multiple languages. He has also published in many disciplines including literature, engineering, chemistry, web design, and online learning.