Webinar: Is Information and Knowledge Becoming a Commodity that Higher Education Cannot Afford?
Learn from the Director of IT Policy and Law at Cornell University about prominent government regulations affecting higher education information technology.
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Held on: December 6, 2007
Duration: 1 hour
Moderator:
M. Kevin Robinson, President of ACUA
Presenter:
Tracy B. Mitrano, Director of IT Policy and Law, Cornell University
Higher education is at risk of losing its relative autonomy because of the encroaching influences of government regulation, copyright law, and the trend towards commercialization of IT services (such as email outsourcing.) Tracy will provide you with a 100,000 foot view of prominent government regulations affecting higher education information technology. She will discuss copyright law as well as provide a big picture synopsis of where higher education is in American society and what impact government regulations may have on your institution's risk appetite.
Learning Outcomes:
- Identify emerging areas of risk in higher education
- Understand the correlation between government regulation and higher levels of risk
- Expand their perspective of what higher education is evolving to in American society with information and knowledge as a commodity
- Become more aware of regulations that shape information technology requirements
Presenter's Bio:
Tracy Mitrano is the director of IT Policy and Computer Policy and Law Programs for the Office of Information Technologies at Cornell. Elected to the EDUCAUSE Board in 2006, she took her seat as its Treasurer in January 2007. Mitrano is a 2002 graduate of the Frye Institute, and since then a member of its faculty, chair of Internet 2 InCommon Steering Committee and from 2004-2006 the co-chair of the Internet 2/EDUCAUSE Security Task Force, Law and Policy Team. A member of the 2005 EDUCAUSE Program Committee, Mitrano is also faculty of the EDUCAUSE Leadership Institute and co-facilitator of the Seminars on Academic Computing. In 2003 the University of Iowa named her the Ada Stoflet Lecturer. In spring 2005, Mitrano taught an Internet Law class for the MiNE Program at the Universite Cattolica in Piacenza, Italy. At Cornell, Mitrano is an adjunct assistant professor in the Information Science Program where she teaches Information Science 515, "Culture, Law and Politics of the Internet."
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