Duhart appointed interim technology leader at University of Puget Sound Theresa Duhart, chair of the CIT Ministry and Webmaster for the official CME Website, www.c-m-e.org , was recently appointed the interim leader of the Office of Information Services at the University of Puget Sound in Tacoma, Washington.
The University of Puget Sound is a nationally ranked, liberal arts college in the Pacific Northwest with a strong commitment to teaching excellence, scholarly engagement and fruitful student-faculty interaction. The University is an independent, predominantly residential, undergraduate college with selected graduate programs building on a liberal arts foundation. Students come from 46 states and 13 countries with an undergraduate enrollment of 2,576 and 209 graduate students, and there are 960 faculty and staff members.
The primary mission of the Office of Information Services is to help faculty, students and staff use information technology to achieve their goals at the University. The chief technology officer leads the department which is comprised of 101 persons and 31 full-time staff members, and five teams - Technical Support Services, Network & Server Services, Database Services, Instructional Technology, and Operations & Administration.
Ms. Duhart has been on staff with the University of Puget Sound for 11 years serving as the director of Technical Support Services for the past eight years. Her new position will provide her with an opportunity to work on short and long-term strategic technology plans for the campus with other constituent groups, along with the daunting task of overseeing information services and administering the IT budget. Additionally, Ms. Duhart will serve as the University’s liaison to several area and regional higher education technology organizations. She will be supported by a team of consultants to assist her during the transitional period. Ms. Duhart is passionate about technology, and has worked in technology for over 25 years in the municipal government, K-12, and higher education fields. She is a part-time faculty member at Tacoma Community College. Ms. Duhart is a Microsoft Certified Professional and has numerous professional certifications in management, training and information technology. She has had several papers published through the premiere computing organization, the Association of Computing Machinery (ACM) and its Special Interest Group on University and College Computing Services (SIGUCCS). Recently, Ms. Duhart and a colleague, Heidi Wasem, wrote and presented an intricate technical paper that documented a three-year project to migrate to Microsoft Exchange Server 2003 at the ACM’s SIGUCCS Conference in Edmonton (Alberta), Canada. The paper was one of six selected for a first-ever Web cast and video production. Additionally, the University of Puget Sound, through the Duhart-Wasem team and the efforts of others, won a highly-touted second place communication award in the quick reference category; the first place winner was Northwestern University (Evanston, IL).
Ms. Duhart is active in all levels of the church. She is a member of Greater Love CME Church in Lakewood, WA and serves as the director of Christian Education, president of the Women’s Missionary Society, and a steward. Ms. Duhart is the director of young adult ministries for the Oregon-Washington District, under the leadership of the presiding elder, Rev. Dr. LeRoy Haynes, Jr. Under the leadership of Bishop Henry M. Williamson, Sr., presiding prelate of the Ninth Episcopal District, Ms. Duhart serves as the Alaska-Pacific Region’s treasurer and director of One Church One School, and is a member of the General Connectional Board. Additionally, Ms. Duhart serves as the Webmaster for the Ninth Episcopal District and the Women’s Missionary Council, and is a volunteer with several non-profit organizations in the Pacific Northwest.
A third generation member of the Christian Methodist Episcopal Church, Ms. Duhart hails from Cincinnati, Ohio and Metropolitan CME Church. She has two children, Andrea Lewis, a King County (WA) Housing professional, Kendall Lewis, a Lane College student, and a 10-year old grandson, Arris.
Submitted by Dr. Victor Taylor, General Secretary of the Department of Lay Ministry.