Dr. Stan Waddell serves as the Vice President of Information Technology and Chief Information Officer at Carnegie Mellon University. In his role, Dr. Waddell provides vision, leadership and management for Carnegie Mellon's computing enterprise, including the development and implementation of a university-wide IT strategy. Before joining Carnegie Mellon, Dr. Waddell served as the Associate Vice President for Information Technology and CIO at the University of New Hampshire. He was the Assistant Vice chancellor and chief technology officer at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and spent nine years at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center. Stan also served in the U.S. Navy as an aviation electronics technician for nine years.
Sophie and Jenay talk with Mark McCormack and Stan Waddell live at the EDUCAUSE Annual Conference. They discuss the 2027 EDUCAUSE Top 10 to explore the top issues for higher education leaders in the “age of perpetual change.”
This conversation examines how higher education leadership is adapting to artificial intelligence, emphasizing the need to balance risk and experimentation while preparing institutions and students for rapid technological change.
Across campuses, conversations about artificial intelligence are sometimes being framed by unease rather than enthusiasm. Leaders, faculty and students are questioning how fast to move, what might break and who bears the risk.
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