State Authorization Team at System
Jaimie Henthorn, MFA, PhD
Program Manager and COLTT Conference Coordinator
Jaimie Henthorn facilitates numerous projects across the four University of Colorado campuses as director for the Office for Digital Education and Engagement at CU System. This includes her work on the CU System Coursera portfolio, specifically the production of the Coursera healthcare specializations: Become an EMT, Newborn Baby Care, and School Health. She also contributes to Coursera marketing and communication efforts, facilitates faculty recognition, and onboards new faculty to Coursera instruction. Other office roles include overseeing state authorization and compliance, contributing to the office’s all-campus support of High Impact Practices (HIPs) and Open Educational Resources (OER), and directing and innovating the annual Colorado Learning and Teaching with Technology (COLTT) conference, a regional cornerstone for educational technology in the Rocky Mountain Region of the U.S. Henthorn is a lecturer in the College of Architecture and Planning at CU Denver and has prior experience in many facets of the University's international affairs. Henthorn is a 2018 artist fellow with Black Cube Gallery Denver where her latest performance work incorporates VR technology. She received a BA from Northwestern University, an MFA from Edinburgh College of Art, and a PhD in Artistic Practice as Research at University of College London.
jaimie.henthorn@cu.edu | 303-860-5693
Erika G. Swain
Assistant Director for Compliance and Authorization | CU Boulder
Interim Assistant Director for State Authorization | CU System
Erika holds a Bachelor of Arts in history from Ithaca College and a Master's in Library and Information Science from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. Prior to joining CU Boulder, she worked for many years in regional accreditation, overseeing institutional and peer evaluator training and federal compliance programs in her various roles at both the Higher Learning Commission and the Middle States Commission on Higher Education. Erika has also served as the Registrar at North Country Community College in Saranac Lake, NY.
swaine@cu.edu | 303-735-8184
2015 - 2018 Committee Members
University of Colorado – Boulder
William Kuskin, Senior Associate Vice Provost for Education Innovation and Special Projects
Geoffrey Rubinstein, Director at Continuing Education
University of Colorado – Colorado Springs
Jennifer George, Associate Counsel
David Moon, Senior Associate Vice Chancellor for Undergraduate Education and Academic Planning
University of Colorado – Denver
Karyn Hardy, Research Counsel Attorney
Nelia Viveiros, Special Assistant to Provost