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Gregory
A. Jackson
Biographical Note
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Chicago IL 60637
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Gregory A. Jackson is Vice President
and Chief Information Officer at the University
of Chicago. In this capacity he reports to the President, and manages the
University's central computing facilities, telephones, communications,
network services, administrative computing, academic computing, computer
store, and related entities.
The umbrella organization for these activities, Networking Services and Information
Technologies, spends about $70-million annually overall. It employs about
350 individuals (not counting students). Jackson also works closely with the
University's widely diverse academic and administrative units to frame and
guide more distributed information-technology activities, and to make sure
the University makes optimal use of information technology in its education,
research, and administration. He serves on University-wide committees,
councils, and boards including Budget, Computing Activities and Services,
Patents and Licensing, Research Infrastructure, Intellectual Property,
Provost Staff, Executive Staff, President’s Council, and various
others.
Jackson
has served on the Boards for EDUCAUSE, National LambdaRail,
and Internet2. He has served as a
member of the EDUCAUSE Recognitions
Committee, chaired the Internet2/UCAID
National Planning and Policy Council, and is an active participant in the
Common Solutions Group and the Ivy+
and CIC CIO
groups. Jackson was Conference Chair
for the 1993 EDUCOM conference in Cincinnati. He also has
served on the higher-education advisory boards for Dell,
Sun, Apple, Microsoft, and Gateway.
From 1991 to 1996 Jackson
was Director of Academic
Computing for the Massachusetts Institute
of Technology. He oversaw MIT's $6-million budget for instructional and
scholarly technology. He worked with his own staff, with academic departments
and faculty, and with information-technology organizations to make sure the Athena® Computing Environment and other Information Systems facilities served
the teaching and learning needs of MIT faculty and students. From 1989
through 1991 Jackson
was Director of Educational Studies and Special Projects in the Provost's
Office at MIT. Concurrently with his administrative work at MIT, Jackson was Adjunct
Lecturer in Harvard's Kennedy School of
Government, and Lecturer in the Harvard University Extension.
From 1981 through 1990 Jackson
was Associate Professor of Education
at Harvard University (and from 1979
through 1981 Assistant Professor), teaching in the University's doctoral and
management programs in higher education. Jackson
served as one of the founding Directors of Harvard University's Educational Technology Center, which
studied the use of technology to advance educational practice. He also served
as Assistant Director of the Joint Center for Urban Studies of MIT and Harvard University, a multidisciplinary
research organization then operated by the two universities. Before that he
was Assistant Professor of Education at Stanford
University from 1977 through 1979.
Trained as a statistician, Jackson
has taught analytic methods for clarifying decision making, including
statistical and qualitative research methods; policy analysis and evaluation,
especially in higher education; and computer programming. At MIT Jackson also
taught an MIT
freshman seminar on the scientific integrity of murder mysteries.
Jackson has worked extensively on evaluation and planning methods in
higher education; on research, instructional, and library computing in
universities; on admissions and college-choice issues including the
differential impact of financial aid on minority and majority college
applicants; and on the selection and use of comparison groups for colleges.
He is co-author of two books --Who Gets Ahead? and
Future Boston -- and of numerous articles,
reports, and teaching cases related to his research and administrative
work.
Born in Los Angeles and
raised in Mexico
City, Jackson
earned his bachelor's degree from MIT and
his doctorate from Harvard.
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