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@wisc.edu
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
Upcoming Network Maintenance to Impact IT Services
Network Services will perform maintenance on datacenter hardware May 9 and 16. The scope of impact on IT services will be more significant than recent maintenance windows due to the nature of the work. Continue Reading Upcoming Network Maintenance to Impact IT Services
Has Your LinkedIn Account Been Exposed?
More than 500 million LinkedIn profiles have been recently scraped, including accounts with @wisc.edu email addresses. Learn what this means and find out if your account was exposed in this or other security breaches. Continue Reading Has Your LinkedIn Account Been Exposed?
Join Us For “CommunITea”
Thursdays at 3:30pm via Zoom. In addition to the usual breakout room conversations, join us for these topics: Apr 15, developers talk APIs, home automation; Apr 22, open to suggestions. Continue Reading Join Us For “CommunITea”
Gartner Research And Expertise At Your Fingertips
Make data-driven project decisions with help from resources and guidance provided through our partnership with the worldwide advisory firm Gartner. Continue Reading Gartner Research And Expertise At Your Fingertips
UW–Madison Zoom Implementation Roadmap Update
From outreach to documentation, here is the latest news from the UW–Madison Zoom implementation team at DoIT, with support of the Zoom advisory group. Continue Reading UW–Madison Zoom Implementation Roadmap Update