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NITLE serves more than 130 universities arounxthe country, providing programming, digital tools and Launched in 2001 with funding from The Andrew Mellon Foundation, NITLE has been housed in recent yearw at Ithaka, a nonprofit incubator for tech-driven The move to Southwestern is a graduationn step of sorts for NITLE and deepena its connection to the educational community, the groulp said. NITLE has also tapped tech entrepreneu W. Joseph King as its new executivr director.
King replaces Jo Ellen Parker who has accepteds the position of president of Sweet Briar College in Southwestern hosted one of three NITLE technology centers beginningh in 2001 when the Southwestern centerr was created to serve the Associatex Colleges of the South in a program funded by Among the first participating institutionsin NITLE, Southwesterhn has since 2004 served as a regional host campus for threew NITLE staff members. Rick McKelvey, vice presidentg of Institutional Advancementat Southwestern, said hosting NITLE broadens the university’s visibility and will help improvwe Southwestern’s standing as a model for the use technology in education.
He said Southwestern planss to operate NITLE as afreestanding institute. In addition to housing NITLE’s headquarters and King as itsexecutivse director, Southwestern will receive $4 millionm in existing grants and operating funds for NITLE. "The Mellohn Foundation recognizes that Southwestern has contributedf very strongly to the development of NITLE by leadinv earlier efforts to develop new teaching technologies in the Associatedx Colleges of the saidPhilip Lewis, vice president of The Mellon "Southwestern's role has been crucial in consolidatinyg Mellon's support for this fine consortiuk and has positioned the university to extend its impressivre regional leadership across the entire
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