Purdue University trustees on Friday (June 11) approved the tuition and fee schedules for the 2022 and 2023 fiscal years and the university’s operating budget for the 2022 fiscal year.
Hyatt named Purdue’s chief information officer
WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. Purdue University announced Thursday (May 27) that Ian Hyatt will be the university’s next chief information officer, effective Tuesday (June 1).
As chief information officer, Hyatt joins the university leadership team and will oversee information technology throughout the Purdue system and head Information Technology at Purdue (ITaP), Purdue’s central IT organization. ITaP operates the Purdue System Cloud ‒ the IT infrastructure that spans three statewide campuses and offers a nationally recognized high-performance computing complex that supports Purdue’s computational research.
Hyatt will be charged with continuing to integrate software solutions – such as SAP, SuccessFactors and Brightspace – as well as building a robust information security strategy across the Purdue system. He will have responsibility for the annual systemwide IT spend of $160 million and staff of more than 1,100, and will
WEST LAFAYETTE – Purdue Trustees adopted five of Purdue s Next Moves Friday, ways for the university to continue forward as part of its five-year, $260 million strategic investment.
Those five next moves, which came with accompanying presentations Friday, include: Plant Sciences 2.0, National Security and Technology, Purdue Applied Research, Transformative Education 2.0 and the Purdue Equity Task Force, which has had several presentations and updates in previous Trustee meetings.
“We believe we ve been thoughtful about this, we believe we ve been strategic,” Purdue President Mitch Daniels said. There are so many possibilities that could have made this list, but again we wanted to excel, and that requires concentrating resources, management, attention and all our assets, all those things will make the most difference in advancing our missions.
Purdue trustees ratify faculty positions, approve new degree programs, award posthumous degree, honor friends of the university
Note to Journalists: Photos are available on Google Drive. Journalists visiting campus should follow visitor health guidelines. Barry Pittendrigh
WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. The Purdue University Board of Trustees on Friday (Feb. 5) ratified two faculty positions, approved three new degree programs and awarded a posthumous bachelor’s degree. Trustees also issued resolutions of appreciation for friends of the university.
The ratified faculty positions are Barry Pittendrigh as the John V. Osmun Chair in Urban Entomology and Margo Monteith as a Distinguished Professor of Psychological Sciences, both on the West Lafayette campus.
Lewisburg educator earns ‘Master Teacher’ role with digital library [The Daily Item, Sunbury, Pa.]
Feb. 2 Lewisburg Area School District’s Hannah Irion-Frake was named a Master Teacher Ambassador by Epic, a global digital reading platform that reaches 20 million children in grades 6 and under.
Irion-Frake teaches third grade at Kelly Elementary. She’s in her sixth year at Lewisburg Area. According to Irion-Frake, the Ambassador program will see her providing feedback through surveys, questionnaires and interviews to the teams of people that operate Epic.
According to Epic’s website, one million educators registered to use the platform. It’s free to teachers and librarians, allowing students and educators access to more than 40,000 titles. There are digital reading materials in core subject areas. Some are read-to-me books and others are full audio versions.