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 is the recipient of 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
Complete your Cybersecurity Awareness Training by Dec 1!
Complete this mandatory training by the deadline to be eligible for pay adjustments and bonuses.
Pilot of Quest Binary Tree Migrator Pro
Over the next 5 months, the Campus Active Directory (CAD) team will pilot a tool that would simplify domain migrations to CAD.
Digital Publishing & Printing Services holds open house
DPPS invites you to celebrate the completion of our new state-of-the-art print facility at 2109 S Stoughton Road. See how we do what we do for you! Thu, Nov 17, 1-3pm.
Virtual Office Hours with UW–Madison CIO Lois Brooks
No Office Hours Fri, Nov 25. Next special guest Dec 2: Beth Meyerand, PhD, vice provost for faculty and staff affairs, Office of the Provost.
2023 IT Professionals Conference calls for volunteers
Join the 2023 conference committee to grow your professional network and help strengthen the IT culture that makes UW–Madison a great place to work. Learn more: Nov 17 & Dec 8, 3:30pm via Zoom.
