Jen Stedelin is interim vice chancellor and chief information officer at WashU. She leads WashU IT, providing strategic direction and operational oversight for the university’s administrative, academic, research, and data management technology services. She joined WashU IT in 2023 as deputy chief information officer and the university’s first associate vice chancellor for administrative and academic technologies, and previously served as an assistant vice chancellor at WashU from 2015 to 2017.
Stedelin brings more than 20 years of IT leadership experience in public and private higher education, including roles at Southern Illinois University Edwardsville (SIUE), Kent State University, and The Pennsylvania State University. She has built and led high-performing teams across enterprise applications, data management, information security, and academic computing.
At Penn State, she led rapid application development for COVID-19 contact tracing and testing while steering the university’s long-term IT strategy. Stedelin holds a Bachelor of Arts in Economics and a Master of Business Administration, both from SIUE. She has participated in the MOR Associates Advanced IT Leaders Program and the EDUCAUSE and CLIR Leading Change Institute.