The people who provide IT services at UW‑Madison are working every hour of every day to help support the Wisconsin Idea so that the university can help improve people’s lives beyond the classroom.
Chief Information Officer & Vice Provost for Information Technology
Lois Brooks
Email:
lois.brooks
Lois Brooks joined UW–Madison in August 2018 as vice provost for information technology and chief information officer. Before that, she served as Oregon State University’s vice provost for information services and chief information officer.
She is active nationally in the higher education community, having served in leadership and governance roles with the Northwest Academic Computing Consortium, Unizin, Educause Learning Initiative, and Internet2. She received the 2022 ORBIE award for excellence in IT leadership in the large enterprise category.
She also served for many years at Stanford University, most recently as director of Academic Computing. During her tenure at Stanford, she co-founded the Sakai Foundation (now Apareo), serving on the board of directors and later as executive director.
View “From the CIO” — a collection of Lois’ presentations, articles and thought leadership, with links to regional and national organizations she serves and participates in.
Who does IT@UW–Madison?
Division of Information Technology
DoIT is a center of campus IT operations, providing IT services & support to faculty, staff and students as well as their schools, divisions, departments and units.
More campus IT providers
A variety of other IT providers are distributed across campus, performing IT functions and providing IT services for schools, divisions, departments and units.
Example of ongoing work
From large scale projects to everyday learning opportunities, UW–Madison IT professionals support the mission of teaching, research and service with innovative and creative solutions.
Interested in working at UW–Madison?
IT news
IT and CIO news
UW IT professionals take top spot in university-wide satisfaction rankings
With a stellar 4.08 rating on a 5-point scale, IT not only topped the charts but also showed steady improvement from its already strong performance of 3.98 in 2022.
Virtual Office Hours With CIO Lois Brooks
Fridays, 9:15am via Zoom. Unscripted conversations with our chief information officer. We’re taking a break May 23 for Memorial Day weekend. And no Office Hours May 30, either—all are encouraged to attend the IT Professionals Conference instead.
Cybersecurity Awareness Training registration closes June 14
Cybersecurity Awareness Training will be unavailable between Jun 14 and Aug 15. If your annual training requirement falls within that window, plan to take the training now.
New Webex service: Webex Events
A new Webex service, Webex Events, is coming to the campus community in June. Learn more about the service and its key features.
Enhancing your login security: Important MFA-Duo updates coming soon
Starting Jun 2: UW–Madison will implement 3 important updates to our Duo multi-factor authentication (MFA) service to better protect your NetID account while improving your login experience.
