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Sandra L. Miller, Deputy Chief Information Officer and Director of Instruction and Research Technology at William Paterson University, Receives 2015 NJEDge.Net Award for Excellence and Innovation

Sandra L. Miller

Sandra L. Miller, deputy chief information officer and director of instruction and research technology (IRT) at William Paterson University, is a recipient of this year’s Charles McMickle Award for Excellence and Innovation from NJEDge.Net. Edward J. Yaw, president of the County College of Morris, was also a recipient of the 2015 award.

Miller provides leadership and vision for the University’s Center for Teaching and Learning with Technology (CTLT) which provides professional development for faculty, media services, classroom technology support, and broadcast, video production and support services. In 2007-2011, she was principal investigator for the Institute of Museums and Library Services (IMLS) grant which created NJVID with NJEDge.Net’s technological expertise.  In June, 2013, she taught a MOOC (Massive Open Online Course) on online pedagogy for NJEDge.Net and in June 2015, she conducted an Instructional Design Symposium with Gayle Stein from Rutgers University for NJEDge.Net.  

The award was established in memory of Charlie McMickle, who was instrumental in the deployment of the NJEDge.Net Regional Network.

NJEDge.Net is a non-profit technology consortium of academic and research institutions in New Jersey. Through its deployment of advanced Internet technologies and digital communication, NJEDge.Net supports its members in their institutional teaching and learning; scholarship; research and development; outreach programs; public service, and economic development. In providing broadband statewide network, NJEDge.Net creates an environment for interoperability to facilitate productive use of technology across the academic enterprise. NJEDge.Net introduces emerging technologies and state-of-the-art networking to its partners in academia, government and industry for inter-institutional collaboration, scholarship and research.