Awards

The AJCU-CITM has established these awards/funds in honor of some past members. To read about the current procedures governing the awards, please refer to the guidelines and eligibility document.

William O’Hearn Service Award

At the annual meeting at Seattle University in 1996 the CITM established the William O’Hearn Service Award to honor Bill O’Hearn who was then the director of information services at John Carroll University. By then Bill had worked at John Carroll for almost 40 years, as an associate professor of physics, as an academic dean and as the information services director and CIO. In addition to being a charter member of the AJCU-CITM group Bill hosted the annual meeting at John Carroll in 1994. Throughout his affiliation and service with the AJCU-CITM Bill has served as a mentor to several new managers in the AJCU-CITM. Bill passed away on November 27, 2006.

The O’Hearn award was intended to be an extemporaneous expression of appreciation and recognition of the service of one of our members for service to Jesuit education, our profession and to the AJCU-CITM. Below is a list of recipients of the award.

Year	Recipient	Organization	Notes
1996	William O’Hearn	John Carroll University	First recipient and awarded at the meeting at Seattle University.
1997	Bernard Gleason	Boston College	Awarded at the meeting at Creighton University. Bernie led the IT organization at Boston College for over 20 years and presided over the first AJCU-CITM conference at BC in 1986. He was a leader ahead of his time launching a voice/video/data network for the residence halls at BC (Project Agora) in 1995 and actively participating in development of the Jasig/uPortal open source project which predated later higher education “community-sourced” software such as Sakai and Kuali. Bernie was recognized by the CAUSE Elite Award in 1992 and served as a mentor to an entire generation of CITM colleagues.
1999	Jerry DeSanto	University of Scranton	Awarded at the meeting at College of the Holy Cross. Jerry had been responsible for Information Technologies and University Libraries at the University of Scranton since 1986. He organized and presided over the 1998 AJCU-CITM conference at the University of Scranton which was the first to be held jointly with the AJCU Conference of Library Deans. Similar joint meetings have been held seven times since.
2001	Jack Corliss	Loyola University Chicago	Awarded at the meeting at Loyola University Marymount. Jack had been serving as conference secretary since 1987; added the responsibility to conduct the annual business meetings in 1990; and helped administer the AJCU listserves. His fluency in Spanish and organizational skills were essential to successfully planning and conducting the first joint conference between CITM and colleagues in information technology management at the Jesuit colleges and universities in Central America and Latin America at Universidad Iberoamericana in Mexico City in 1995.
2007	Mark Castner	Canisius College	Awarded at the meeting at Regis University. Mark attended the first AJCU-CITM conference at Boston College in 1986 and has missed only two of the conferences since. He worked in academic computing management at Canisius College and has been hailed as a tireless contributor to many AJCU-CITM and AJCU-EDTECH programs both as a program committee member and as presenter. Perhaps the most significant example of those contributions is the great success of the annual meeting with our AUSJAL colleagues at ITESO in Guadalajara México in 2003 which resulted from the collaborative work of Juan Lanzagorta (ITESO) and Mark. Mark has been managing the CITM consortium site licensing arrangement with Adobe Systems since negotiating the agreement in 2002. He has been described as “a friend to many in the AJCU and a great example of what brings us together.”
2007	John McFadden	Loyola College in Maryland	Awarded at the meeting at Regis University. Since John joined Loyola Maryland in 1989 he has attended most of our meetings including the two in Mexico and he hosted the annual meeting at Loyola Maryland in 1993. At meetings he has often exhibited his uncanny ability to be forward thinking about the potential of an emerging technology to serve students on our campuses. Outside of meetings he has helped countless CITM colleagues by e-mail and by phone and in person. A strong advocate of the Jesuit vision John represented the CITM at the second annual meeting of our AUSJAL colleagues at UNISINOS in São Leopoldo in Brasil in 1997 and has since been the CITM liaison with AUSJAL.
2015	Ron Danielson	Santa Clara University	Awarded at the meeting at Loyola University Maryland via videoconference link. Except for a period in the 1990s during which he was a full time faculty member Ron attended nearly every CITM meeting beginning with the first one in 1986. He hosted the third and 26th meetings at Santa Clara in 1988 and 2011 respectively. From 2001 until 2014 Ron was not only a member of the program committee but he also made presentations at each of those meetings. He has served the organization in the following capacities: as liaison from CITM to JesuitNET from 2001-2013; as a member of the Shared Services working group from 2008-2012; as a mentor in the formal CITM mentoring program for four years; and at their request as an informal personal mentor to five current or former CIOs at AJCU schools during their first few years in that role. While he was on sabbatical during the 2014-2015 academic year he was a member of the AJCU-CITM History Project team. Ron's wisdom humor and gentle manner have enriched the organization for many years.

Some other notes about William O’Hearn
Click here to read a letter that was written to William from Father Kolvenbach, S.J., Superior General in 1996. This letter is used with the permission of Frances D. O’Hearn, wife of William.

Barbara Horgan Professional Development Fund
The Barbara Horgan Memorial Professional Development Fund is targeted to colleagues from AUSJAL institutions. At the annual meeting at Loyola Marymount University in 2001 the CITM set up the Barbara Horgan Memorial Professional Development Fund in honor a colleague and friend. Barbara Horgan had been the CIO at Seattle University, the site of the annual meeting in 1996. A very active member of EDUCAUSE (including CAUSE and Educom), Barbara moderated the EDUCAUSE CIO listserv, convened the annual CIO Constituent Group during 1997-2001 and served on the boards of CAUSE (1994-1995), Educom (1996-1999) and EDUCAUSE (1998-2000). Barbara passed away in 2001 after a valiant battle with cancer. The CITM has used this fund to help AUSJAL colleagues in information technology management from the Jesuit colleges and universities in México, Central America and Latin America who attend and participate in our annual meetings, e.g., conference registration fees. Disbursements from Barbara Horgan Memorial Professional Development Fund – targeted to colleagues from AUSJAL institutions usually based upon request from AUSJAL through Fr Currie at AJCU.

Year	Recipient	Organization	Notes
2003	Jose Gregorio Garcia and Olga Bravo	Universidad Católica “Andrés Bello” Caracas	Awarded at ITESO Guadalajara México
2005			Awarded at St. Joseph’s University