Don't Be the "No" Department

Guest: Dr. Brian Brown, Chief Information Officer, Texas Wesleyan University

Dr. Brian Brown, Chief Information Officer at Texas Wesleyan University and a former decade-long TCEA board member and past president, joins to reflect on a career spanning classroom teaching, K-12 tech leadership, and higher ed. Brian shares hard-won lessons on why tech departments should empower rather than gatekeep, why he refused to block student access to tools like AI in a high-need district, and how TCEA's board evolved from a regional "working board" to a role-based governance model serving 90,000+ members.