What Happened?
Bellingham, WA-based Western Washington University Retired John Lawson as 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
John Lawson currently serves at Western Washington University as Vice Provost for Information Technology / Chief Information Officer and Professor of Computer Science. His duties encompass the usual gamut of technology areas. Prior to Western he served as CIO at Tulane University and Pepperdine University respectively. John has degrees in education, geography and computer science and has served as faculty member in computer science, director of academic computing, and researcher in a center for advanced technology in education. His passions outside academe include his family, camping and fishing, and flailing at little white spherical objects.
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