Some weeks back I noted that I was serving on the search committee for a new Chief Technology Officer for the university. I was pleased to hear that the university has secured Molly Tamarkin for the position. In our search Ms. Tamarkin was an impressive candidate, and I was personally taken by the way in which she had come to technology through a liberal arts education. We also had some fun emails back and forth joking about Second Life, which as you've seen is my latest running joke (see comment from her in my SL post just below). Here's part of the email from Vice President for Finance and Administration Sherry Mondou:
Molly comes to Puget Sound from Duke University, where she currently serves as associate dean of Arts & Sciences Information Science & Technology. At Duke University, Molly led and developed information technology services for a community of more than 20,000 faculty, students, and staff. She previously served as director of information technology at the Graduate Center of Marlboro College in Vermont, where she held a faculty appointment in the Teaching and Technology program. Prior to her career in information technology, Molly served as Marlboro’s library director, and held positions with Welles-Turner Memorial Library in Connecticut, Brooklyn Public Library in New York, St. Louis Public Library in Missouri, and the University of Chicago Libraries.
Molly has a national profile in her field, having published several papers and frequently participating on panels discussing information technology issues in higher education at conferences throughout the country. She earned a bachelor’s degree in behavioral sciences from the University of Chicago in 1986, a master’s degree in library science from the University of Missouri-Columbia in 1990, and master of fine arts degree in English from the University of Florida in 1992.
Here's a podcast with Ms. Tamarkin from 2005 where she talks about technology, organization, and leadership.
A final note is the Duke is known for a recent initiative where they distributed ipods to encourage podcasting. Ms. Tamarkin, I'll take mine in black, please.
