Special Event
Speaker(s): Roger Schonfeld
Friday, April 4, 2008, 1:30pm-2:30pm
202 South Hall

Abstract

Roger Schonfeld from Ithaka.org will be conducting an informational session on April 4 (Friday) from 1:30 - 2:30 pm regarding possible career opportunities and internships with their organization.

Currently available positions include Research Analyst & Summer Intern (Research).

For more information regarding the event, please contact Shirley A. Salanio at

About Ithaka.org:
Ithaka promotes innovation in higher education by helping pioneering initiatives thrive. Leaders of new not-for-profit projects and their funders - must navigate a challenging path from early-stage funding to long-term viability. At the same time, long-established institutions are finding that they must fundamentally rethink the way they serve their constituents in a changing world. Ithaka supports entrepreneurial leaders in higher education with a range of services:

• Research on trends and lessons learned to help the higher education community understand, and manage, the transition to an electronic environment.
• Strategic Services to help organizations and initiatives address pressing strategic issues and develop sustainable models.
• Administrative support services - in finance, human resources, and information technology - to strengthen organizational infrastructure and enable projects to focus on core mission activities. Ithaka offers the full suite of its services and resources to selected incubated entities, promising initiatives with the potential for system-wide impact. Ithaka's current incubated projects are Aluka, Portico, and NITLE.

Bio

Roger Schonfeld leads the research group at Ithaka, where he studies how new technologies are affecting academia and how the changes they bring can best be managed. His recent work has focused on the transition to an electronic-only journals environment, changing faculty attitudes and practices, knowledge dissemination practices in the emerging environment, and the history and future of preservation and book survivability. Roger currently serves as a member of the NSF Blue Ribbon Task Force on Sustainable Digital Preservation and Access. He is the author of JSTOR: A History (Princeton University Press, 2003), which examines business models for the shift to an online environment for scholarly texts by focusing on how JSTOR developed into a self-sustaining not-for-profit organization. Previously, Roger was a research associate at The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.