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
Cybersecurity Awareness Training has begun!
Faculty and Staff need to complete their Cybersecurity Awareness Training by June 30, 2021. All graduate and undergraduate employee and students will take the training in the fall. Continue Reading Cybersecurity Awareness Training has begun!
Virtual Office Hours With UW–Madison CIO Lois Brooks
Join Lois in an unscripted conversation about a wide variety of subjects relevant to IT colleagues across the university. Special guest May 14: Vice Chancellor for Research & Graduate Education Steve Ackerman. Continue Reading Virtual Office Hours With UW–Madison CIO Lois Brooks
Join Us For “CommunITea”
Thursdays at 3:30pm via Zoom. In addition to the usual breakout room conversations, join us for these topics: Apr 30, Q&A for IT Professionals Conference speakers. Continue Reading Join Us For “CommunITea”
Cybersecurity Forward 2021: Call For Proposals
Help others become more cyber secure by presenting at the 20th anniversary of Cybersecurity Forward! Submit your proposal by the May 21 deadline to showcase and share your knowledge. Continue Reading Cybersecurity Forward 2021: Call For Proposals
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