DR WILLIAM GREG PRICE
TROY UNIVERSITY
When he arrived, TROY was a regional university with many distributed physical locations and a technology infrastructure he describes as dated and clunky – one that“ essentially existed for a handful of data processing needs”.
Things have certainly changed since then.
From education to orbit Digital transformation in the education sector came quickly, and Troy University’ s team was determined to be at the forefront of that shift.
In 1995, the university launched its first fully online courses, making it one of the earliest institutions in the world to offer a complete online educational experience.
Greg and two of his colleagues who remain in the department today were central to developing the technologies that made those initial steps possible.
“ We led the way in the online educational market,” he explains.“ One of our slogans many years ago was‘ anytime, anywhere’, and we’ ve certainly realised that.”
That motto would have been ambitious in the 90s, promising the kind of connectivity and flexibility that organisations are still looking for today.
It was more than just words, though. TROY serves a large contingent of active military students, some of whom take courses while deployed in forward locations around the world.
Greg recalls a time when one of TROY’ s students took exams while orbiting the planet as an astronaut.“ It’ s been a wild experience,” he says,
DR WILLIAM GREG PRICE
VICE CHANCELLOR & CISO AT TROY UNIVERSITY
Dr William Greg Price serves as Vice Chancellor and Chief Information Security Officer at Troy University, where he has led technology, cybersecurity and digital transformation initiatives for nearly three decades. A nationally recognised technology leader, he holds multiple industry certifications, several patents and has authored books on technology and cybersecurity. Greg has spoken at more than 150 conferences and has been recognised among the nation’ s leading technology professionals. He founded the Alabama Digital Forensics Institute and the Alabama Cyberkids Awareness Program. He has served on numerous public and private boards and is widely recognised as an advocate for cybersecurity education, privacy and child protection.
“ from the extent and the scope of the technologies that we’ ve deployed at TROY.”
The university’ s digital reach now serves students ranging from dual-enrolled high schoolers to adult learners and military personnel. Its mission, as Greg frames it, is both simple and ambitious: to provide a quality educational product to anyone, anywhere, at any time.“ From my perspective,” he says,“ that is a comment predicated heavily on technology.”
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