About the Office of Academic Affairs
About the Office of Academic Affairs
Provost
- Joseph A. Alutto
Executive Vice President and Provost
Senior Leaders
- Javaune M. Adams-Gaston
Vice President for Student Life - William I. Brustein
Vice Provost for Global Strategies & International Affairs - Wayne E. Carlson
Vice Provost for Undergraduate Studies and Dean for Undergraduate Education - M. Dolan Evanovich
Vice President for Strategic Enrollment Planning
- Patrick S. Osmer
Vice Provost for Graduate Studies and Dean of the Graduate School - W. Michael Sherman
Vice Provost for Academic Planning - W. Randy Smith
Vice Provost for Academic Programs - Kathleen K. Starkoff
Chief Information Officer - Joseph E. Steinmetz
Vice Provost for the Arts & Sciences and Executive Dean of the Arts & Sciences Colleges - Mac A. Stewart
Vice Provost for Minority Affairs and Special Assistant to the President for Diversity - Caroline C. Whitacre
Vice President for Research
- Susan S. Williams
Vice Provost for Academic Policy and Faculty Resources
Senior Leaders
Kathleen K. Starkoff
Chief Information Officer
Kathleen Starkoff is the Chief Information Officer for The Ohio State University. As CIO, she is responsible for leveraging technology in innovative ways to advance and support the university's mission and goals and for guiding IT policy and security, emerging technologies, external affairs, strategic planning and communication, and project management services.
Ms. Starkoff has more than 20 years of information technology experience in the private sector. She came to Ohio State from Limited Brands, where she was group vice president and chief technology officer. Prior to her service at Limited Brands, she was senior vice president and chief technology officer for Banc One Corporation. Her financial services experience also includes technology leadership roles in application development and support for KeyCorp and National City Corporation. Her technology career began at IBM.
She earned a Master of Business Administration degree from Case Western Reserve University and a Bachelor of Science degree in mathematics from Kent State University with minors in business administration and chemistry.
Primary responsibilities
- Learning technologies
- Information technology
- Technology Enhanced Learning and Research (e-learning)
- IT policies
- IT security
- Emerging technologies
- Core university applications and data systems
- Common university infrastructure
Support Staff
Susan Hatfield
Linda Keith
