Advisory Board

Chief Information Officer Office of the CIO, Seneca College, Toronto, Canada

Terrence Verity is CIO at Seneca College in Toronto, Canada. As CIO he has responsibility for Information Technology and Telecommunication Services and for College's planning and institutional research processes. He is a member of the College Senior Executive Committee.

During Mr. Verity's career he has had a wide range of responsibilities including Chair, Applied Arts and Chair, Computer Studies, FCE. On behalf of the College he established the Centre for new Technologies in Teaching and Learning, provided advice and assistance to community based network projects, provided a new vision for College web development and services. He served on the conceptual team for the development of the Seneca@York campus that opened in 1999 and the new Technology Enhanced Learning Centre and Institute that opened fall 2003. He is a member of the steering committee for ABEL (Advanced Broadband Enabled Learning) Project. The ABEL project is a $3M project funded by CANARIE to undertake research and development for teacher training using materials and services through the national broadband CANet3 network.

He is a Director of the York Technology Association and a member of the Information Technology Association of Canada. He is a founding member of the Ontario College's CIO Council and Director of GTANet (the Toronto based fibre R&D network for post-secondary education and research hospitals). He currently is providing senior advisory services to the Saudi Arabian vocational education system to help plan the development of their information technology infrastructure and e-learning program. He has been a speaker at the Information Highways Conference, League for Innovation and Pan European Portal Conference.

In his current responsibilities he has developed close working relationships and partnerships with technology industry leaders such as Sun Microsystems, Blackboard Learning Management, Cisco Systems, Oracle and Microsoft.

His current professional work includes the introduction and implementation of a personalized portal and enterprise information system for the Seneca College community, the development of a learning objects repository/content management and e-portfolio system, the introduction of campus based 802.11 wireless services, and a high-speed wireless WAN infrastructure to serve the College's campuses in York Region and the implementation of a gigabit WAN serving major Seneca's Toronto area campuses.

He holds a BA degree and an MLS from the University of Western Ontario, School of Library and Information Science.