George Otte

George Otte was named Director of Instructional Technology for The City University of New York in 2001, and renamed the University Director of Academic Technology in 2008. That same year he became the chief academic officer of the CUNY School of Professional Studies, home of CUNY's fully online degrees. (He was there for the launch of the first online degree; there are now twelve; eight Bachelor's and four Master's.) An English professor for decades-he directed writing programs at Baruch...See more

George Otte was named Director of Instructional Technology for The City University of New York in 2001, and renamed the University Director of Academic Technology in 2008. That same year he became the chief academic officer of the CUNY School of Professional Studies, home of CUNY's fully online degrees. (He was there for the launch of the first online degree; there are now twelve; eight Bachelor's and four Master's.) An English professor for decades-he directed writing programs at Baruch College for fifteen years and was awarded that school's Teaching Excellence award in 1993-he is on the doctoral faculty of the programs in English, Urban Education, and Interactive Technology and Pedagogy at the CUNY Graduate Center. He has chaired the CUNY IT Conference since 2002 and the CUNY Committee on Academic Technology since 2008. He earned his doctorate at Stanford in what was then the new (still extant) Modern Thought and Literature program in 1982. See less