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Bellingham, WA-based Western Washington University Appointed Greg Smith as Interim Chief Information Officer
About the Company
Western Washington University is the state’s third-largest higher education institution. Consistently ranked the top master’s-granting public university in the Pacific Northwest by U.S. News and World Report. FACULTY: Faculty in fall 2012: 784. Full-time faculty: 517, 90.1 percent with terminal degrees. Student-faculty ratio: 20.8 to 1. STUDENTS: Fall 2012 enrollment: 14,833 full- and part-time students. Students of color: 21.3 percent. First-year students: 2,688 freshmen and 1,045 transfers. 2011 full-time freshmen returning: 85.1 percent. Six-year graduation rate: 67.2 percent.
About the Person
Greg Smith, hired to a one-year interim appointment, will begin work at Western on June 20, 2016. Smith has a bachelor’s degree in chemistry and master’s degree in bioinformatics from Indiana University. Previously he served as chief information officer at Missouri University Science and Technology in Rolla, Missouri.; CIO at George Fox University in Newberg, Oregon.; and as director of Computer Network Center and Information Technology at Purdue School of Engineering and Technology at Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI). He served as an adjunct professor at George Fox and Purdue universities. Smith’s private sector experience includes as manager of computer operations for Best Lock Corp., in Indianapolis; as a systems engineer for Hewlett-Packard Engineering, and as director of Computer Services for ACZ (now Montgomery Watson) of Steamboat Springs, Colorado. Smith, who is now working as a CIO consultant and lives in Hillsboro, Oregon, also has been backpacking sections of the Pacific Crest Trail. His tech/backpacking blog is here.
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