Tracy Mitrano
Director of IT Policy
and of
Computer Policy and Law Program
200 Computing and Communications Center
Ithaca, NY 14853-2801
Telephone: 607 254-3584
E-mail: tbm3@cornell.edu
Curriculum Vitae
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Tracy Mitrano is the director of IT Policy and Computer Policy and Law Programs for the Office of Information Technologies at Cornell. Elected to the EDUCAUSE Board in 2006, she took her seat as its Treasurer in January 2007, and is now secretary for the year 2008. She serves as chair of the Internet 2 InCommon Steering Committee and from 2004-2006 was co-chair of the Internet 2/EDUCAUSE Security Task Force, Law and Policy Team. Mitrano is a 2002 graduate of the Frye Institute, and since then a member of its faculty. Her education includes a J.D. from Cornell Law School, 1995, and a Ph.D. in American History from Binghamton University, 1989.
A member of the 2005 EDUCAUSE Program Committee, Mitrano is also faculty of the EDUCAUSE Leadership Institute and co-facilitator of the Seminars on Academic Computing. In 2003 the University of Iowa named her the Ada Stoflet Lecturer. In spring 2005, Mitrano taught an Internet Law class for the MiNE Program at the Universite Cattolica in Piacenza, Italy. At Cornell, Mitrano is an adjunct assistant professor in the Information Science Program where she teaches Information Science 515, "Culture, Law and Politics of the Internet."
Recent articles:
- Stop blaming higher education for the Internet copyright problem!, October 2007
- A Wider World: Youth, Privacy, and Social Networking Technologies, EDUCAUSE Review, November/December 2006, vol. 41, no. 6
- Thoughts on Facebook, April 2006
- InCommon: Toward Building a Global University, EDUCAUSE Review, March/April 2006, vol. 41, no. 2
- Cornell's Response to the Federal Communications Commission (FCC)'s Proposal to Amend the Communications Assistance for Law Enforcement Act (CALEA), November 2005
- The Internet, the Pope, and the iPod by Tracy Mitrano, in Campus Technology, June 2005
- Cornell University Information Technology Policy Framework, Feb.2004
- Civil Privacy and National Security Legislation: A Three-Dimensional View, EDUCAUSE Review, vol. 38, no. 6, November/December 2003 (also available as a PDF file)
- Copyright, Civil Rights, and Middle Age (73KB PDF file) by Tracy Mitrano, EDUCAUSE Review, September/October 2003
