School of Athens or Mr. Ford's Factory: IT in the Future of Higher Education. Richard Katz, VP of Educause

RICHARD N. KATZ has been vice president of EDUCAUSE since 1996 and in 2001, he founded the EDUCAUSE Center for Applied Research (ECAR). Before joining EDUCAUSE, Katz held a variety of management and executive positions spanning 14 years at the University of California (UC). At UC, Katz was awarded the Gurevich Prize, the Olsten Award, and was the 2nd recipient of that University's Award for Innovative Management and Leadership. Katz is the author, co-author or editor of six books, four major research studies, and more than 50 articles and monographs on a variety of management and technology topics. His book Dancing with the Devil was deemed one of the 10 most important education-related books of 1999 by Lingua Franca. He received his B.A. from the University of Pittsburgh, and his MBA from UCLA.

Opportunities and Challenges for New Administrative Systems. Richard Spencer, Senior IT Strategist, University of British Columbia

RICHARD SPENCER is Senior IT Strategist, a part-time position in the IT department at the University of BC . He is currently working on a project to develop a next generation, community source, student system which will use a service oriented architecture. Richard has a Ph.D. in Civil Engineering from the University of Auckland in New Zealand , and came to UBC as a faculty member in 1968. He became Registrar in 1988 and Registrar and Director, Student Services in 1993, and brought a strong focus on excellent service to students, supported by leading edge Web enabled systems, to these areas. As Registrar, Richard led the project that developed UBC's Student Self Evaluation and Self Admission system, which won the Educause Award for Administrative Information Systems in 2003. Richard joined the UBC IT department in 2000.