Khan Named New Vice Provost for Information Technology

Kamran M. Khan has joined Rice as the university’s first vice provost for information technology. He comes to Rice from Marist College in Poughkeepsie, New York, where he has served since 1998 as vice president of information technology/chief information officer.

Managing a staff of 100 full-time employees and a budget of $11 million, Khan will be responsible for Rice campus networking and security, campuswide systems infrastructure, Web services, and the Academic Computing Enterprise (ACE). ACE provides support and services to the language laboratories, online subscriptions, digital library initiatives, classroom technology, campus networking, student computer laboratories and workspaces, desktop computers and workstations, Web, audio/visual, and research. ACE also coordinates closely with the Computer and Information Technology Institute and its related information technology-oriented research centers.

“The world is changing rapidly and information technology plays an increasingly important role in the challenges we face in the 21st century,” says Khan.

“This position provides the opportunity to contribute to Rice’s mission of teaching and research and to assist the academic leadership at the forefront of the discovery and innovation that are taking place at the undergraduate and graduate levels, in research, and in Rice’s rich interdisciplinary areas.”

During Khan’s tenure at Marist, the college was ranked in Yahoo’s 100 Most Wired Institutions (Survey 2001). He is an active member of EDUCAUSE, a nonprofit association whose mission is to advance higher education by promoting the intelligent use of information technology, and is on the board of directors for NYSERNet for Advanced Network Technologies and Applications, a consortium of research universities and institutions in New York. He is the recipient of two National Science Foundation (NSF) awards and has served on three NSF panel reviews.

—Margot Dimond