Michael Olesen, a
technology and grant administrator with over 33 years of experience in higher
education, has been appointed Director of the Rural Information Technology
Alliance (RITA) Consortium at Pine Technical College. He will begin Monday,
Feb. 10.
Back in September it was announced that Pine Technical
College has received an $18.3 million four-college, multi-state consortium
grant in part of an effort to expand demand-driven skills training, and
strengthen employer partnerships. These grants are the third installment of a
nearly $2 billion community college initiative, and the four-year grant began Oct. 1, 2013.
Over the past five years Olesen was the Director of
Information Technology, Biosciences, and Research for the University of
Minnesota Rochester (UMR). With UMR's transition to a system campus and the
introduction of a Biomedical Informatics and Computational Biology Research and
Academic program and the launching of BS in Health Science in fall 2009, Olesen
played the lead role in planning, developing, implementing, and managing UMR's
information technology infrastructure. This included facilitating the
development of UMR’s leading-edge Minnesota High Tech Associate (MHTA) TekNe
award winning learning management system iSEAL (intelligent System for
Educational Assessment and Learning) and implementing active learning
classrooms at UMR. In addition, he was responsible for research administration
and research programs of the Biomedical Informatics and Computational Biology
(BICB) program.
Prior to joining UMR, Olesen was Associate Director of the
University of Minnesota Digital Technology Center where he was involved in
building university-industry research consortia and Assistant Director of the
Minnesota Supercomputer Institute where he implemented high performance
computing solutions.
Michael has a B.A. in History from Hamline University and a
MS in Higher Education Administration from Saint Cloud State University.
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