Vice Provost for Digital Education and Learning Technology Applications (DELTA) Donna Petherbridge has been appointed to the EDUCAUSE Board of Directors for a four-year term effective October 1.
EDUCAUSE is a nonprofit organization dedicated to the strategic use of technology and data science to further the promise of higher education. The organization accomplishes this through professional development opportunities, open-access publications and the cultivation of a community of technology, industry and academic leaders.
Petherbridge is an active member of the EDUCAUSE community, regularly serving as a program proposal reviewer in addition to her membership on the EDUCAUSE Review Advisory Committee and the EDUCAUSE Digital Learning Leaders Institute faculty. She will be presenting with two panels at the EDUCAUSE annual conference Oct. 21—24.
“I am delighted about this opportunity to serve on the EDUCAUSE board, along with my fantastic UNC System colleague Dr. Hector M. Molina,” Petherbridge said. “I care deeply about student success, and in particular how technology can support that success. At the instructional level, I support the empowerment of technology professionals with knowledge, skills, opportunities and a voice at their institutions as well as in their communities of practice.”
In her role with DELTA, Petherbridge provides strategic organizational leadership to foster the understanding and implementation of innovative technologies and pedagogies that provide effective and impactful digital learning experiences for the NC State community.
An experienced and collaborative leader in academic technology, Petherbridge is well-situated for her position on the EDUCAUSE board. Her involvement with various NC State committees, task forces and IT strategic planning endeavors allows her to facilitate conversations around academic technology innovations, opportunities, challenges and governance in support of student success.
“I bring to the board a proven ability to work across multiple IT and IT-adjacent disciplines to think broadly and strategically about academic technology,” she wrote in her board platform statement, “as well as an appreciation of the complexity of the multi-faceted ecosystem of higher education institutions, vendor partners and stakeholders.”
Petherbridge has been involved with DELTA since its inception in 2000. Prior to her appointment as vice provost of the unit in January 2022, she served for five years as associate vice provost for academic technology innovation. For the preceding decade, she served DELTA as an associate vice provost.
“I am excited about the opportunity to lift up the work we are doing at DELTA and across NC State’s IT divisions to a national level through my continued engagement with EDUCAUSE,” she said. “I intend to really lean into the national conversations about teaching, learning and technology and the support models around how to really innovate in this space.”
Petherbridge also serves as an adjunct teaching assistant professor in the Educational, Leadership, Policy & Human Development (ELPHD) in the NC State College of Education. In this role, she teaches online courses, mentors graduate students and serves on dissertation committees. She has been an associate member of the graduate faculty since 2008.
She earned her Bachelor of Arts in English from Elon University, her master’s degree in information science from North Carolina Central University, her Ed.D. in adult and community college education from NC State, and an Executive Women in Leadership Certificate from Cornell University.
Interested in learning more about how EDUCAUSE can help you to elevate the impact of IT? Take advantage of NC State’s EDUCAUSE membership to create an account and explore their resources, research and sponsored events, including a comprehensive annual conference.
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