The people who provide IT services at UW‑Madison are working every hour of every day to help support the Wisconsin Idea so that the university can help improve people’s lives beyond the classroom.
Chief Information Officer & Vice Provost for Information Technology
Lois Brooks
Email:
lois.brooks
Lois Brooks joined UW–Madison in August 2018 as vice provost for information technology and chief information officer. Before that, she served as Oregon State University’s vice provost for information services and chief information officer.
She is active nationally in the higher education community, having served in leadership and governance roles with the Northwest Academic Computing Consortium, Unizin, Educause Learning Initiative, and Internet2. She received the 2022 ORBIE award for excellence in IT leadership in the large enterprise category.
She also served for many years at Stanford University, most recently as director of Academic Computing. During her tenure at Stanford, she co-founded the Sakai Foundation (now Apareo), serving on the board of directors and later as executive director.
View “From the CIO” — a collection of Lois’ presentations, articles and thought leadership, with links to regional and national organizations she serves and participates in.
Who does IT@UW–Madison?
Division of Information Technology
DoIT is a center of campus IT operations, providing IT services & support to faculty, staff and students as well as their schools, divisions, departments and units.
More campus IT providers
A variety of other IT providers are distributed across campus, performing IT functions and providing IT services for schools, divisions, departments and units.
Example of ongoing work
From large scale projects to everyday learning opportunities, UW–Madison IT professionals support the mission of teaching, research and service with innovative and creative solutions.
Interested in working at UW–Madison?
IT news
IT and CIO news
Learn@UW Newsletter, week of February 21
What’s happening? Canvas – Known Issue – “N/A” values appearing in the exported gradebook Earlier this week, Learn@UW–Madison was made aware of an issue that effects instructors who rely upon the gradebook export and import …
Accessibility in action: spring events & resources
Creating accessible digital experiences requires a shared commitment. Design for usability, refine your processes and put best practices into action to create more inclusive, accessible experiences online.
Tech made easy with Software Training for Students—for free!
Boost your tech skills with free STS workshops and 1-on-1 support. Learn programming, design, media production and web development—in person or online. Instructors can request custom workshops.
Study the relationship between digital course content & student success
Interested in learning how to use course data to better understand how students engage with your online content? Apply for a microgrant. Deadline: May 22.
Computing innovation to power tomorrow’s research
A message from Chief Information Officer Lois Brooks: In our continuing Envision the Future series, we explore how computing infrastructure advances will support UW–Madison’s ambitious research agenda.
