Chuck Thompson, the Vice President & Chief Information Officer joined TCCS in 2016. Chuck is responsible for providing information technology services in support of The Claremont Colleges as well as for supporting the information technology needs of TCCS.

Prior to coming to TCCS, Chuck was Assistant Dean and Chief Information Officer for the College of Engineering at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. In this role, Chuck oversaw the consolidation of all information technology staff in the college into a single shared services organization. He was also very involved with campus-wide activities such as compute cluster consolidation, data center consolidation, the deployment of a campus-wide unified communications system and serving as a facilitator for a leadership program for campus information technology staff.

Chuck holds a Bachelor of Science and Master of Science degrees in Computer Science from the University of Illinois. Chuck is on the board of directors for The Society for College and University Planning and Ophelia’s Jump Theatre where we serves as Secretary on both boards.