Office of the Chief Information Officer (CIO)

The focus of the Office of the Chief Information Officer (CIO) is to provide campus-wide IT strategies that will contribute to the success of the university as an intellectual community and facilitate pre-eminence in research, education, and outreach. Often the CIO’s role takes the form of coordination at the institutional level. The CIO-moderated Council of Academic CIOs is one avenue for identifying common needs and solutions to challenges that can be met more effectively in collaboration than in isolation.

• The Associate Provost and Chief Information Officer (CIO) for the Urbana campus is Sally Jackson, who also holds a professorship in the Department of Speech Communication. The CIO is part of the Provost’s Cabinet and the Council of Deans, and serves on standing campus committees in areas such as e-learning and capital review.
• The Executive Director of Campus Information Technologies and Educational Services (CITES) reports to the CIO. The CITES Executive Director is accountable for enterprise services to the academic community, including IT infrastructure, services for the common good, and IT “entitlements” needed by all members of the campus community.
• The members of the CIO’s staff have specific campus-wide areas of focus, reflecting the CIO’s responsibility to assimilate campus technology needs and match them with creative solutions from a variety of sources, whether central, shared, internal, or external.