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Buffalo, NY-based Buffalo State College has Appointed David Demers as Chief Information Officer
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Buffalo State is committed to the intellectual, personal, and professional growth of its students, faculty, staff, and alumni. The college`s mission is to empower students to succeed and to inspire a lifelong passion for learning. Buffalo State is dedicated to excellence in teaching, research, service, scholarship, creative activity, and cultural enrichment.
About the Person
David Demers, who will assume his new role at Buffalo State on July 1, is currently the chief operating officer of the American Women’s College, an all-online degree program for women managed by Bay Path University in Massachusetts. As the chief operating officer of the American Women’s College since its inception in 2013, Demers has served as the principal designer and architect of an innovative online learning environment, Social Online Universal Learning (S.O.U.L.), which combines robust learning analytics with student demographic data to inform adaptive, social learning opportunities for students as well as proactive advising and early intervention strategies. The S.O.U.L. initiative was recently awarded $3.5 million in funding through the Fund for the Improvement of Postsecondary Education (FIPSE) First In The World competition through the U.S. Department of Education. Prior to his appointment as COO of the American Women’s College, Demers was the vice president for academic and administrative technology at Bay Path from 2009 to 2013, where he provided strategic vision and oversight of technology resources to support teaching and learning, student information systems, telecommunications and business systems. As Buffalo State’s chief information officer, he will serve as a member of the President’s Cabinet and oversee the areas of Computing and Technology Services, Instructional Technology, and E. H. Butler Library. From 2005 to 2009, Demers was the director of instructional technology and online learning at Sacred Heart University. He also held administrative posts at the University of Connecticut Health Center (2001–2005) and the University of Hartford (1999–2001). Additionally, Demers was an assistant professor of biology at Springfield Technical Community College from 1996 to 1999. Demers has a long history of scholarship having published articles in the International Journal on E-Learning, Family Medicine, and Gene, as well as textbooks and electronic resource guides for W.W. Norton & Co. and Allyn & Bacon. Demers completed his B.S. (1989) and Ph.D. (1995) at the University of California at Riverside where he pursued research interests in the field of cell and molecular biology.
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