Dr. Brian Kraus is New Chief Information Officer at Harford Community College

Harford Community College is pleased to announce that Dr. Brian Kraus has been named the College’s new Chief Information Officer. He has held a range of leadership roles in higher education IT, including CIO positions at California University of Pennsylvania and Volunteer State Community College. He will begin his role at the College on August 4, 2025.

Dr. Kraus previously served as the Director of Campus Applications at West Virginia University (WVU). He also served as the University’s Director of Academic Systems. In his WVU roles, he led the teams responsible for student facing technology including Student Information System (Banner), Student Portal (Ellucian Portal), Customer Relationship Management and Admissions (Target X/Salesforce), Learning Management System (Blackboard), Student Housing (StarRez), Student ID Card (CSGold), Office 365, Zoom, E-Commerce, and Atlassian Suite.

In addition to his administrative expertise, he serves as an adjunct faculty member at the University of Arizona and the University of the Cumberlands, where he teaches courses in project management, information security, computer information systems, and business leadership. Additionally, he has developed individual courses and entire curricula for both graduate and undergraduate programs at several universities.

Dr. Kraus served as Associate Vice President/Chief Information Officer at California University of Pennsylvania, where he led a reimplementation of the Banner Student Information System, implemented Slate CRM, modernized surveillance and access technologies, and designed IT strategic and disaster recovery plans. Other positions he has held include serving as the Chief Information Officer at Volunteer State Community College in Tennessee, the Director of Instructional Technology at Longwood University in Virginia, and the Director of Technology at Argosy University in Florida.

Dr. Kraus earned a Bachelor of Arts in Liberal Arts with a concentration in Sociology from the University of Florida, a Master of Business Administration with a Finance concentration from Argosy University, and a Doctor of Business Administration specializing in Information Systems, also from Argosy University. He is certified as a Project Management Professional (PMP) and a Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP).