Lucinda T. Lea
Assistant Vice President for Information Technology
Middle Tennessee State University

Lucinda Lea is Assistant Vice President for Information Technology at Middle Tennessee State University (MTSU), Murfreesboro, TN, where she has responsibility as the chief information officer for strategic and tactical planning in all facets of information technology. She directs the services of academic and administrative computing, instructional technology and online course development, web applications, networking and telecommunications, and the campus ID system.

She has promoted the concept that technology can be employed as a valuable tool in classroom instruction and has guided MTSU to a position of leadership in this area. MTSU, a regional university with 19,000 students, has 77 technology equipped classrooms for faculty and student use in instruction. The MTSU Office of Information Technology under her leadership has provided, over a five year period, $300,000 in grants to faculty to promote the development of technology-based instructional materials.

Lucinda has given numerous presentations and papers nationally and regionally describing campus innovations in information technology. She served on the 1998 Syllabus Advisory Board; Syllabus Press is an education media company serving educators. She has been involved with the TLT Group since 1995, participating as a facilitator, cluster leader, and speaker in several of the project's state-wide and regional workshops and the Summer Institutes.

She founded and sponsors the Mid-South Instructional Technology Conference which yearly attracts hundreds of faculty and administrators from across the nation to share knowledge and gain expertise in technology-based education. Lucinda currently serves on the Tennessee Board of Regents System-wide Technology Advisory Committee.

She has degrees in mathematics, a B.S. from Tennessee Technological University and an M.S. from Middle Tennessee State University.