Paul Gandel is Vice President for Information Technology and Services
at Syracuse University and is a professor in the School of Information
Studies. As Chief Information Officer, Gandel is responsible for all
aspects of information technology and information services --computer
services, voice and data networking, instructional technology services,
business process improvement, and distance learning technology.
Before coming to Syracuse University, Gandel was Vice Provost and Dean
of Libraries at University of Rhode Island, Gandel. Before Rhode
Island, Gandel was Associate Provost and Chief Information Officer at
the Ohio University, Senior Director of Academic Computing and Associate Professor of Library Science at the University of North Texas,
Supervisor of the Computing Technology Group at Bell Laboratories, Head
of Media Services at the State University of New York at Plattsburgh,
and Director of the Research Library at the Visual Studies Workshop in
Rochester, New York. Gandel has made presentations and published on
topics related to the management of information systems, library
administration and services, software engineering, and visualization of
information.
Dr. Gandel has a Ph.D. in Information Studies from Syracuse University, an M.A. in Library Science from the University of Wisconsin, and an M.F.A. in Photography and B.A. in History from the State University of New York at Buffalo.