Feb 6, 2019

February 06, 2019 09:05 AM Eastern Standard Time Incoming steering committee members are: Brad Christ, associate vice president for information technology and chief information officer at Eastern Washington University. Chris Sedore, chief information officer at University of Texas at Austin. Close to 1,000 institutions across the U.S. benefit from InCommon’s secure, privacy-preserving trust fabric that enables institutions to make appropriate decisions about the release of identity information and the control of access to protected online resources. This includes single sign-on convenience, privacy protection, and access control to protected resources through the InCommon Federation; enterprise solution for server and web certificates through the InCommon certificate service; and the global federated wireless network access service, eduroam. “A common goal across all InCommon services and offerings is to help members of the research and higher education community work together whether their team is distributed around the state or across the globe,” said Kevin Morooney, VP of trust and identity at Internet2 . “The steering committee not only represents the diversity of users across the community, it provides strategic guidance on setting priorities and ensures that the needs of the community are addressed. I’m grateful to all our steering committee members who volunteer their time and expertise to support the mission of InCommon on behalf of their colleagues.” Taking on executive roles for the steering committee this year are Mike Erickson, chief information officer at Colorado School of Mines, who will serve as vice-chair; Ted Hanss, associate chief information officer at Yale University, who will serve as chair; and Laura Paglione, consultant at the Spherical Cow Group, who will serve as secretary. Outgoing steering committee members are Klara Jelinkova, vice president for international operations and IT and chief information officer at Rice University, and Michael Gettes, associate director of identity services at the University of Florida, who completed six-year terms each; and Celeste Schwartz, vice president of information technology & college services at Montgomery County Community College, who completed a three-year term. For more information about InCommon, see www.incommon.org .