Welcoming Matt Meyer to Enterprise Technology

I'm excited to share that Matt Meyer will be joining our team on May 4th as our new Associate Vice President for Enterprise Initiatives & Instructional Technology. This is a role I have taken my time building — one that brings together UT Austin's complete technology-enabled learning ecosystem: Canvas LMS, instructional design, learning spaces, digital accessibility, and faculty and research engagement, along with leadership of some of the most consequential transformation programs we have underway.

Matt brings exactly the combination of depth and experience this work requires. He comes to us from Tarleton State University, where he serves as Deputy CIO, overseeing the IT Strategic Plan, all areas of academic technology, and campus-wide customer service and device management. He has built relationships across both academic and administrative domains with a focus on mobile-enabled learning, partnerships that enhance collaboration, and consultation with academic leadership and university stakeholders.

A career built on how learning actually works

What distinguishes Matt is where his career began. He didn't start in IT leadership — he started in instructional design and e-learning. Before higher education, he spent over six years at InfoLogix leading their e-learning development practice, gaining a practitioner's grounding in how learning works that shapes how he approaches every problem. At Penn State, he created scalable online learning in complex STEM areas — including building wet lab experiments for online Biology courses — and built large-scale community events focused on teaching and learning with technology.

He understands teaching and learning from the inside. That's a real differentiator for someone who will be working closely with our faculty, deans, and other academic leaders.

What stands out from his record

• At the University of Chicago, Matt built what became the Center for Digital Accessibility from the ground up, led the migration from Blackboard to Canvas, and grew his team from 14 to 30 people while maintaining service quality throughout.
• At Northeastern University, he led the merger and acquisition work integrating Mills College's IT operations — navigating the organizational, cultural, and operational complexity that large-scale institutional change demands. That experience is directly relevant to the work ahead here.
• At Tarleton State University as Deputy CIO, he advanced the IT Strategic Plan and established a unified approach to academic technology that produced measurable outcomes across the organization.

I'm looking forward to the work ahead, and I hope you'll join me in welcoming Matt when he arrives in May.