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Allentown, PA-based Muhlenberg College Appointed Allen Chen as Chief Information Officer
About the Company
Founded in 1848, Muhlenberg is a highly selective, private, four-year liberal arts college located in the beautiful Lehigh Valley of eastern Pennsylvania. The College took its present name in 1867 from Henry Melchior Muhlenberg, patriarch of the Lutheran Church in the American Colonies. Muhlenberg aims to help students become independent critical thinkers who are intellectually agile, characterized by a zest for reasoned and civil debate, knowledgeable about the achievements and traditions of diverse civilizations and cultures, able to express ideas with clarity and grace, committed to life-long learning, equipped with ethical and civic values and prepared for lives of leadership and service. The College offers 40 majors in the humanities, fine arts, social sciences and natural sciences, in addition to strong pre-professional programs in such areas as pre-health, pre-law, pre-theology, business and education. Muhlenberg affords its students an unusual degree of freedom and responsibility, both within the academic program and in campus life. The Muhlenberg experience is characterized by a deep sense of community and connection, intense student-faculty relationships and collaboration; small classes; passionate teaching and active learning; and powerful outcomes in terms of graduate school and entry-level career placement.
About the Person
Allan Chen is currently the Chief Information Officer at Menlo College in Atherton, Calif. Prior to Menlo College, Allan was the Assistant Dean for Law Technology & Academic Computing at the School of Law at Santa Clara University. He has also filled roles within the Academic Computing department at Stanford University. He has spent his entire career in higher education and Information Technology. As CIO at Menlo, Allan is responsible for the full breadth of information technology services. He manages the development and long-term strategic role of technology across all of campus. Along with handling traditional services such as user support, media, telecommunications and administrative systems, the Office of Information Technology also works with other departments on business process management. Several new systems have been implemented since his arrival to improve efficiency and increase collaboration between groups. Allan has made numerous presentations and regularly writes on technology and leadership in higher education. Along with EDUCAUSE, Allan has been involved with the Special Interest Group for University and College Computing Services (SIGUCCS), part of ACM. He has been a member since 2005 and has made multiple presentations at both the Management Symposium and the Service and Support Conference. He served as Treasurer for the 2012 and 2013 conferences. Allan has also been on the Information Services Advisory Group for the Law School Admission Council. Allan is a graduate of the Leadership Institute and the Learning Technology Leadership Institute (both summer 2013) from EDUCAUSE, and will be attending the Leading Change Institute in summer 2014. Allan has a BA from Stanford University and an MBA from the Leavey School of Business at Santa Clara University.
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