Office of the Vice President for Information Technology: Biography

Bradley C. Wheeler, Ph.D.
Vice President for Information Technology & CIO, Professor of Information Systems, IU Kelley School of Business

Dr. Brad Wheeler, Indiana University's vice president for information technology and chief information officer, leads IT services for IU's eight campuses. These services include research, educational, administrative, networking, and other shared IT services. He has co-founded some of higher education’s most transformative software and service collaborations including the Sakai Project for teaching and learning software, Kuali for financial and other administrative systems, and the HathiTrust for digital copies of scanned books as part of the Google Book Project. These projects are a blend of both open source and traditional development models that have grown to an ecosystem encompassing over $60M of pooled investments from 50 institutions and 22 commercial firms. He is a professor of information systems in IU’s Kelley School of Business, and has taught executive programs for corporate and MBA audiences on six continents.

Selected Publications and Presentations

Publications

Leadership

Osborne, N., & Wheeler, B., (2012). Shaping the Path to Digital: The Indiana University eTexts Initiative. EDUCAUSE Game Changers: Education and Information Technologies, pp. 373-380.
Henry, C., & Wheeler, B., (2012). The Game Has Changed. EDUCAUSE Review, 47:2.
Wheeler, B., (2010). About that $1B Per Year. EDUCAUSE Review, 45:6
McRobbie, M.A., & Wheeler, B., (2010). Three Insights for Presidents and CIOs. EDUCAUSE Review, 45:3.
Waggener, S., Rowe, T., Rickards, J., Hites, M., Fischer, D., Bielec, J., Gonzales, G., Gonick, L., Wheeler, B., Jackson, G., Voss, B., Hogue, W., & Katz, R. (2007). The Organization of the Organization: CIO's Views on the Role of Central IT. EDUCAUSE Review. 42:6, pp. 24-53.

Community Source Software

DeStefano, J., & Wheeler, B., (2007). Mitigating the Risks of Big Systems. NACUBO Business Officer Magazine, July-August 2007
Wheeler, B., & Greenstein, D., (2007). Open Source Collaboration in Higher Education: Guidelines and Report of the Licensing and Policy Framework Summit for Software Sharing in Higher Education. Report of the 2006 Summit held in Indianapolis, Indiana
Wheeler, B., (2007). Open Source 2010: Reflections on 2007. EDUCAUSE Review
Gandel, P.B., & Wheeler, B., (2005). Of Birkenstocks and Wingtips: Open Source Licenses. EDUCAUSE Review .
Wheeler, B., (2004). Open Source 2007: How Did This Happen? EDUCAUSE Review. pp. 49-67
Wheeler, B., (2004). The Open Source Parade. EDUCAUSE Review, 39(6), 68-69.
Wheeler, B., (2004). The Inevitable Unbundling of Software and Support, Syllabus, March.
Wheeler, B., (2003). Aligning IT Strategy to Open Source, Partnering, and Web Services. EDUCAUSE Research Bulletin

Cyberinfrastructure/Cloud

Katz, R.N., Harel, E.C., Keehn, A.K., King, M., Kossuth, J., Wesemann, D., and Wheeler, B., (2010). Looking at Clouds from All Sides Now. EDUCAUSE Review, 45:3.
Stewart, C., Almes, G., McCaulay, S., Wheeler, B., (eds. 2010). Cyberinfrastructure Software Sustainability and Reusability: Report from an NSF - Funded Workshop Held 27 and 28 March 2009.
Wheeler, B., & Waggener, S., (2009). Above Campus Services: Shaping the Promise of Cloud Computing for Higher Education. EDUCAUSE Review. 44:6, pp. 52-66.
Wheeler, B. (2007). Leading Beyond the ICT Conundrums for Scholarship 2.0. Presented at EDUCAUSE Australasia 2007, Melbourne, Australia, May 2, 2007.
Wheeler, B. & Hacker, T. (2007). Making Research Cyberinfrastructure a Strategic Choice. EDUCAUSE Quarterly. 30:1, pp.

Other

Wheeler, B., (2008). In Search of Certitude. EDUCAUSE Review. 43:3, pp. 14-34.

Presentations

Thriving in the Era of (Rabid) Collaboration, Presented at the Matrix Integration 2010 Technology Expo, 2010.
Collaboration is Strategy, Presented at EDUCAUSE 2009 (Narrated slides).
Indiana University's Information Technology Portfolio, Presented to The IU Board of Trustees, 2008.
Evolution and Revolution in Scholarship in an Age of Open, Presented at The Open Forum 2008, 8 December 2008.

Selected International Leadership

Chairman and Co-Founder, Kuali Foundation, 2004-present
EDUCAUSE Board, 2009-2012, Treasurer 2010,2011
Chairman, Connexions Consortium, 2010-2011
IU Research and Technology Corporation, Secretary, 2007-
Vice-Chairman, The Sakai Foundation, 2005-2006; Board member in charge of commercial relationships.
Vice-Chairman, The Sakai Project Board of Directors, 2004-2005; Board member in charge of commercial relationships.

Selected Grants and Awards

Kuali Open Library Environment (2009), Co-Principal Investigator, The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, $2.5M.
Kuali Research Administration System (2006), Principal Investigator, The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, $1.5M.
Open Source Student Services System (2006), Planning Grant, Principal Investigator, The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, $38,000.
Acquisition of a High-Speed, High Capacity Storage System to Support Scientific Computing: The Data Capacitor (2005), Senior Investigator, $1.72M, National Science Foundation, #0521433, 2005-2008; C.A. Stewart, PI; R. Bramley, B. Plale, T. Hacker, and C. Pilachowski, Co-PIs.
The Kuali Project (2005), Principal Investigator, The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, $2,500,000 ($7.3M overall project).
The Twin Peaks Navigator (2004), Principal Investigator, Sun Microsystems, $32,000.
The Sakai Educational Partners Program (SEPP) (2004), Co-Principal Investigator, The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, $300,000 ($600k overall project for year 2004).
The ePortfolio Project (2003), Principal Investigator, The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, $518,000, ($1.1M overall project).
The Sakai Project (2003), Co-Principal Investigator & Vice-Chairman of the Sakai Board of Directors, The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, $2,400,000, ($6.8M overall project).