Darcy Hardy

With over 25 years of experience in higher education distance and online learning, Darcy has served as Assistant Vice Provost for Technology Education Initiatives at the University of Texas at San Antonio, Assistant Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs at The University of Texas System, and Executive Director of the UT TeleCampus at UT System. She has also served as an Intergovernmental Personnel Act (IPA) appointment for the Obama Administration at the US Department of Labor and the US Department of Education in Washington, DC.

Darcy currently serves as Chair Emerita with the United States Distance Learning Association (USDLA), and is the founder of the popular USDLA-sponsored International Forum for Women in E-Learning (IFWE), an event that focuses on issues faced by women in the industry as well as on the importance of networking and mentoring in the growth of women leaders for tomorrow. Darcy was inducted into the USDLA Hall of Fame in 2009 and received the Mildred and Charles Wedemeyer Outstanding Distance Learning Practitioner Award in Madison, Wisconsin in 2006. In addition, she was inducted into the Texas Distance Learning Association Hall of Fame in 2006, and received the WCET Richard Jonsen award in 2005.

Darcy received her PhD in Instructional Technology from The University of Texas at Austin in 1992.