Rick Mickool

Rick Mickool leads RISD’s central information technology services area. Prior to coming to RISD in , he served as chief information and technology officer at Babson College, Northeastern University and Wittenberg University, providing IT vision and leadership over the course of a -year career in this rapidly changing field.

Mickool has presented at numerous national and regional conferences, speaking about such topics as distributed learning, on-demand and cloud service delivery, and re-engineering in higher education. He has written several articles for EDUCAUSE and contributed to the book The Online University: Building Viable Learning Experiences for Higher Education (). In the National Science Foundation awarded him a Campus Cyberinfrastructure–Network Infrastructure and Engineering planning grant to build a science DMZ at Wittenberg.

Mickool enjoys teaching both in-person and online undergraduate, graduate, executive and adult education courses in management information systems, business management and information resource management. He holds a BS from Babson and an MBA from Northeastern and has taught at both of his alma maters as well as at Bristol [MA] Community College, Newbury College and Wittenberg.