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
LACE recognized in inaugural 2022 Horizon data and analytics report
The new HORIZON report profiles “important trends and key technologies and practices shaping the future of data and analytics, and envisions a number of scenarios and implications for that future.”
Zoom app minimum version update effective Aug 29
Zoom recently released another update. Starting Aug 29, all UW–Madison Zoom accounts and individuals attending UW–Madison Zoom hosted meetings will be required to use version 5.11.3 or later. Double check your Zoom version to make sure you're prepared!
New school year, new features in Canvas
Learn about changes in roles and permissions, and introduce yourself to NameCoach, a tool that allows Canvas users to audio record the proper pronunciation of their names.
Kick start your search engine optimization
Did you miss the July UW Design Community session? We focused on making your content easier to find and more appealing when it's shared. Get tips about metadata, page structure and SEO tools.
Canvas, Zoom, Kaltura: Training available this summer for faculty, instructors
Teaching this fall? DoIT’s Academic Technology department has you covered with an extensive schedule of tech training sessions this summer.
