About Kuali

The Kuali Foundation is a non-profit organization responsible for sustaining and evolving administrative software that meets the needs of all Carnegie Class institutions. Its members are colleges, universities, commercial firms and interested organizations that share a common vision of open, modular, and distributed systems for their software requirements. The goal of Kuali is to bring the proven functionality of legacy applications to the ease and universality of online services.

The Foundation coordinates the efforts of partners, and manages and protects the Foundation's intellectual property. The Kuali Foundation manages a growing portfolio of enterprise software applications for colleges and universities, such as Kuali Financial System (KFS), Kuali Coeus (KC), and Kuali Student (KS). A lightweight Foundation staff coordinates the activities of Foundation members for critical software development and coordination activities such as source code control, release engineering, packaging, documentation, project management, software testing and quality assurance, conference planning, and educating and assisting members of the Kuali Partners program.

Board of Directors

Brad Wheeler, Chairman
IU Vice President for IT & CIO, Dean, and Professor, Indiana UniversityElected seat, term ends 12/31/2009
Tedd Dodds, Vice Chairman
Vice Provost, Information Technology, University of British Columbia Appointed seat, term ends 12/31/2009
David Lassner, Secretary
Vice President for Information Technology & Chief Information Officer, University of Hawaii Appointed seat, term ends 12/31/2010
Charles Ingram, Treasurer
Associate Vice President Financial Services, University of Arizona Appointed seat, term ends 12/31/2009
Bruce Alexander
Director, Enterprise Business Systems Projects, Michigan State University Elected seat, term ends 12/31/2010
Lee Belarmino
Vice President for Information Technology, San Joaquin Delta Community College Elected seat, term ends 12/31/2009
Joanne DeStefano
Vice President for Finance and CFO, Cornell University Appointed seat, term ends 12/31/2009
Stephen Dowdy
Director, Research Information and Systems, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Appointed seat, term ends 12/31/2010
Elazar Harel
Chief Information Officer, University of California San Diego Appointed seat, term ends 12/31/2010
Shel Waggener
Associate Vice Chancellor for Information Technology & Chief Information Officer, University of California at Berkeley Elected seat, term ends 12/31/2010
Jennifer Foutty, Executive Director