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Claremont, CA-based Pomona College Appointed William Morse as Chief Information Officer
About the Company
Pomona College, founded in 1887, offers a comprehensive program in the arts, humanities, social sciences and natural sciences. The College is known for the close relationships between students and faculty, and its range of opportunities for student research leadership. Pomona is the founding member of The Claremont Colleges, a unique consortium of five undergraduate and two graduate institutions in Southern California.
About the Person
William Morse, associate vice president and chief information officer at University of Puget Sound in Tacoma, Washington, has been appointed vice president and chief information officer at Pomona College. As chief information officer, Morse will provide strategic leadership for the College as its technology needs expand and evolve, paying attention to both academic and administrative functions, and supporting the needs of faculty, students and administrative staff. Morse will oversee client services, information systems, instructional services, media and classroom services, network and infrastructure services. He also will be a voting member of the faculty. At University of Puget Sound, Morse led a successful two-year, multi-million dollar project to replace the institution’s legacy administrative system with a new enterprise system; established a project management office for the IT department (one of the few of its type at small liberal arts colleges); unified and streamlined support; as part of a green computing initiative, replaced individual servers with high-density virtual server technology, cutting electrical usage in half; and in close collaboration with Pomona College, deployed a ground-breaking disaster recovery partnership that will protect both institutions in the event of an emergency. His past work also includes serving as chief information officer and director of technology at both Oglethorpe University and the Rollins School of Public Health at Emory University in Atlanta. He also was adjunct faculty at Emory, teaching students management information systems (MIS) within a public health context as part of its Public Health Informatics Program, one of the first programs of its type in the country. At Oglethorpe, his accomplishments included redesigning and consolidating the university’s technology infrastructure into a modern, integrated environment. While at Emory, his achievements include co-founding and designing the Public Health Employment Connection, the first—and to this day—largest public health jobs database in the world. He was also a key participant in generating large technology-based education and research grants, which together funded approximately $10 million in projects. He received a doctor of law degree at Emory University School of Law and his undergraduate degree was a double major in history and political science at Emory University.
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