Building a Global University
Tracy Mitrano, Director of IT Policy at Cornell University
What gives meaning and definition to a global university? Tracy Mirano talked about the current brick and mortar efforts in comparison with what data networking offers in creating global learning, and the potential impact technology could have on rethinking undergraduate curriculum.
Tracy discussed these issues in her paper InCommon: Toward Building a Global University.
About Tracy
Tracy Mitrano is the director of IT Policy and Computer Policy and Law Programs for the Office of Information Technologies at Cornell. Elected to the EDUCAUSE Board in 2006, she took her seat as its Treasurer in January 2007. Mitrano is a 2002 graduate of the Frye Institute, and since then a member of its faculty, chair of Internet 2 InCommon Steering Committee and from 2004-2006 the co-chair of the Internet 2/EDUCAUSE Security Task Force, Law and Policy Team.
A member of the 2005 EDUCAUSE Program Committee, Mitrano is also faculty of the EDUCAUSE Leadership Institute and co-facilitator of the Seminars on Academic Computing. In 2003 the University of Iowa named her the Ada Stoflet Lecturer. In spring 2005, Mitrano taught an Internet Law class for the MiNE Program at the Universite Cattolica in Piacenza, Italy. At Cornell, Mitrano is an adjunct assistant professor in the Information Science Program where she teaches Information Science 515, "Culture, Law and Politics of the Internet."