Rob Lowden, Indiana University’s vice president for information technology and chief information officer, is leaving the university for a new position at The Ohio State University in August.
IU announced Lowden’s departure via an IU Today story on July 16. Lowden has been involved in IT services at IU since 1998. He’s served as the university’s chief information officer since July 2020.
Lowden’s departure follows a weekslong, university-wide “security incident” that shuttered many critical university websites. University Information Technology Services said the outages were caused by a “security vulnerability” in an internal email obtained by the Herald-Times in June. IT administrators said they would likely never explain the cause of the outage, WFIU reported in July.
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Aaron Neal, deputy chief information officer and associate vice president for networks and security, will serve as interim vice president. Lowden will start as Ohio State’s chief information officer on Aug. 1.
“We’re grateful to Rob for his leadership and dedication to IU, which has empowered innovation across our campuses,” IU President Pamela Whitten said in the IU Today story.
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This article originally appeared on The Herald-Times: Indiana University IT vice president Rob Lowden leaving for Ohio State