EDUCAUSE Live! Spotlight Series June 11, 2008 1:00 p.m. ET (12:00 p.m. CT, 11:00 a.m. MT, 10:00 a.m. PT); runs one hour

Spotlight On Identity Management

Special Guests

Thomas Black
Associate Vice Provost for Student Affairs and University Registrar
Stanford University

Thomas Black is the associate vice provost for student affairs and university registrar at Stanford University. He has worked in higher education for over 30 years in various administrative positions including the registrar offices of the University of Chicago, Duke University, and the University of North Carolina. He is an honorary member of the Southern Association of College Registrars and Admissions Officers (SACRAO) and the Carolinas Association of Collegiate Registrars and Admissions Officers (CACRAO), and he frequently presents at the American Association of Collegiate Registrars and Admissions Officers (AACRAO) national conferences. Black is also a member of the National Student Clearinghouse Advisory Board. Most recently, he has worked on perfecting electronic transcripts and a safe means of delivery via the Internet. He is interested in increasing the exchange of student data using national standards while ensuring only authorized access to those data. Black received his bachelor’s and master’s degrees from Pennsylvania State University.

Bruce Vincent
Chief IT Architect and Strategist
Stanford University

Bruce Vincent is strategist and IT architect at Stanford University, where he sets the long-term technology direction for central IT infrastructure and enterprise services. He is responsible for network access control, online web services, collaboration tools, standards of systems design, and service-oriented architecture. Vincent is a member of the Faculty Senate Committee on Academic Computing and co-chair of the identity and access management governance group for Stanford University. He joined Stanford University from Barclays Capital in London, where he was the associate director of web engineering and information security with responsibility for web applications design as well as global web and security infrastructure. Prior to Barclays, he was the director of IT and bioinformatics systems at the Institute for Genomic Research in Rockville, Maryland. He has more than 15 years of applied computing experience in support of basic research. Vincent holds a bachelor’s of science in mathematics from the University of Maryland and did his master’s of science work in systems engineering at Johns Hopkins University’s Applied Physics Laboratory.

Summary

Your host, Steve Worona, will be joined by Thomas Black and Bruce Vincent, and the topic will be "How Today's Registrar Demands More from Identity Management Policy and Infrastructure."

Stanford University's registrar and IT strategist discuss their vision of the future of identity management in higher education. Tom Black and Bruce Vincent will give some progressive perspectives on how their roles complement each other in supporting not only admissions processes but a lifelong relationship between students and universities.

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• Identity Management
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