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. Prior to 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 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
Virtual Office Hours with UW–Madison CIO Lois Brooks
Fridays, 9:15am. There will be no Office Hours Jul 1 because of the holiday weekend. The next special guest is Jul 15: Interim Chief Human Resources Officer and Associate Vice Chancellor Patrick Sheehan.
EDUCAUSE New Managers Institute starts Jul 25
Begins Jul 25: The New Managers Institute is an online 8-week institute offering interactive live sessions and small applied team projects designed to support networking and learning.
Join us for “CommunITea”
Join us for our last CommunITea before we go on summer hiatus! Today at 3:30pm via Zoom: open discussion.
In case you missed it: Watch sessions from the IT Professionals Conference
Missed a session? Want to watch a session again? Recordings of all the 2022 sessions are available on the IT Professionals Conference website! Also: Help us make next year's conference even better by taking our survey.
Meet the 2022 IT Recognition Award winners
Find out who was recognized in the following categories: Lifetime Achievement, Community Engagement, Rising Star, Team Achievement, Transformational Achievement, Unsung Hero and the Janet E. Plato Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Award. Congrats to the honorees!
