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Center for the Management of IT

The McIntire School of Commerce’s Center for the Management of IT (CMIT) initiates and promotes visionary interdisciplinary research in information technology-related areas, advances scholarship, and drives essential knowledge discovery through a multitude of engaging events and programs.

Established in 1991, the Center creates opportunities for business and higher education to collaborate on pressing topics in IT, provides support for McIntire faculty involved in cutting-edge research projects, and sponsors Commerce School thought leadership, highlighting faculty and renowned speakers from all over the world. In its nearly three-decade history, the Center has hosted more than 100 programs to date.

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Knowledge Continuum 2023

Education and Training

Through a robust series of lifelong learning programs, CMIT delivers world-class educational opportunities on emerging topics to students, alumni, faculty, and practitioners.

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Thought Leadership

CMIT scholars are renowned experts who produce evidence-based research in areas such as product and project management, cybersecurity, digital innovation, and emerging technologies.

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Industry Engagement

CMIT works in close collaboration with a growing network of industry partners, dedicated alumni, and innovative tech companies to support curriculum enhancements and create effective linkages between McIntire students, faculty, and business.

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“CMIT's network of practitioners and industry experts provides us—and one another—with extraordinary insight into the practical challenges, innovative solutions, and tremendous opportunities they’re seeing on the ground every day.”

Ryan Nelson

Director, Center for the Management of IT

CMIT's IT Leadership Award - 2023

Virginia Evans (M.S. in MIS '94), Vice President & CIO, University of Virginia (retired)

Until her recent retirement, Virginia Evans was Vice President and CIO at the University of Virginia, where she was responsible for planning and delivering central IT infrastructure, applications, IT support, information security and IT policy, as well as research computing for the University.

Evans has over 35 years of IT experience, ranging from IT consulting with Andersen Consulting (now Accenture) and independent IT consulting, to over 30 years managing IT at UVA at both the central and school levels. She was an active participant in national IT organizations of large research universities—CSG (Common Solutions Group) and RUCC (Research University CIO group), as well as Internet2.

Evans holds a B.S. degree with a concentration in Accounting from The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and an M.S. in Management Information Systems from the McIntire School, where she has also served as an adjunct professor, teaching classes at the graduate level.

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