College of Informatics

Location: Griffin Hall 500
Telephone: 859-572-5666
Fax: 859-572-6176
Email Address: informatics@nku.edu
Web Address: http://informatics.nku.edu/
Dean: Kevin Kirby
Other Key Personnel:

Associate Dean: Stephanie Klatzke
Business Officer: Charita Brewer
Director of Development: Carmen Lawrence
Executive Assistant to the Dean: Bain Lindeman

The College of Informatics offers a contemporary perspective on the disciplines that have information at their core. We are home to the departments of communication, computer science, and business informatics. Through our outreach arm, Informatics+, our students have the opportunity to work with companies and other organizations on cutting-edge projects.

The college offers fourteen bachelor’s degrees, four master’s degrees, fourteen minors, and a variety of certificates, both graduate and undergraduate. Several of our programs are available in a variety of forms, including traditional face-to-face, fully online, and hybrid formats. Many of them accommodate working professionals who are only available for coursework in the evening and on weekends.

We have energetic faculty who have a passion for teaching, who are dedicated researchers, and who have a strong sense of civic engagement. Our advising center has a staff to help students advance smoothly through their course of studies here.

Our home is NKU’s state-of-the-art informatics center, Griffin Hall. In this open and social space, students have the opportunity to use the newest technologies and collaborate in innovative ways.

Above all, we embrace a culture of silo-breaking transdisciplinarity. In other words, the College of Informatics is not an island. We work together with all the other colleges on campus to advance the full range of NKU’s mission. Informatics is networked into almost anything you can imagine, and we invite everyone to connect to us and explore.

College Advising Center

Location: Griffin Hall 404 A-H
Telephone: 859-572-7670
Email Address: coiadvising@nku.edu
Web Address: https://nku.edu/academics/informatics/advising.html
Assistant Dean for Undergraduate Students: Rebecca Hamm
Other Key Personnel:

Assistant Directors: Kara Thompson
Assistant Director of Recruitment and Retention: Meghan Schmidt
Academic Advisors:

Lisa Brun
Tina Curtis
Dan Ginn
Jill Liebeisch
Jen Ungerleider

It is the mission of the COI advising center to advise, teach, assist, and empower you. Our advisors accomplish this by assisting you in college transition, selecting courses for your desired major, and mapping co-curricular experiences into your plan. Ultimately we strive to help you navigate and successfully complete your degree. Our advisors are trained to listen to your concerns in an open and caring way and connect you with campus resources.

There is a lot of information available on our website, but keep in mind that as careers change, so do degree requirements. Therefore, while many of your questions may be answered after viewing the contents of our site, we strongly recommend that you consult an advisor at least once a semester with your specific questions.

Accreditations

Business Informatics is accredited by AACSB-International, the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business.

Centers

Informatics +

Location: Griffin Hall 330
Telephone: 859-572-7610
Fax: 859-572-7984
Email Address: iplus@nku.edu
Web Address: https://www.nku.edu/academics/informatics/centers/informaticsplus.html
Director: Kendall Fisher

Other Key Personnel:
Assistant to the Executive Director: Tina Altenhofen
Associate Director of Professional Education: Brian Jaynes
Communication and Events Manager: Krista Rayford
Director of Corporate Engagement: Julie Stockman
Project Innovation Coordinator: Chris Brewer

Informatics+ is a center focused on engagement. It simplifies, funds, enhances and encourages connections between the community and NKU’s faculty and students on informatics-related endeavors. Its mission is to enhance the value and accessibility of the College of Informatics as a resource for talent, training and innovation; and to ensure that its students and graduates are not only proficient but creative, experienced, and professional. Informatics+ helps meet evolving workforce needs by connecting employers to Informatics talent, developing and expanding talent in our community and partnering to solve business problems. The center also builds and expands the college’s community partnerships to create opportunities for experiential learning and student professionalization, and leverages the college’s faculty, students and external partnerships to benefit our shared community.

The Center for Information Security

Telephone: 859-572-7739
Web Address: http://inside.nku.edu/informatics/centers/cis.html
Director: James Walden

The Center for Information Security (CIS) is a multidisciplinary center for information security research and education. NKU has been designated as a National Center for Academic Excellence in Cybersecurity (NCAE-C) by the National Security Agency and the US Department of Homeland Security. The center ensures coordination of the various security-related academic programs, supports the undergraduate cyberdefense team and contributes to various outreach activities including NKU’s annual Security Symposium.

The Center for Integrative Natural Science and Mathematics

Telephone: 859-572-5381
Fax: 859-572-6179
Web Address: http://cinsam.nku.edu/

Established in 1999 by Kentucky’s Council on Post-Secondary Education as the Program of Distinction at NKU, the Center for Integrative Natural Science and Mathematics (CINSAM) is dedicated to enhancing teaching, learning, and application of science and mathematics at all educational levels throughout the region. It prepares outstanding future teachers by promoting integrative science courses and by providing opportunities for collaboration among education, science, and mathematics faculty and their students at all grade levels from pre-school to college graduate. CINSAM’s vision is to facilitate NKU becoming a nationally recognized leader in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) education and scholarship.