Skip to Main Content
  • Directory
  • Our Colleges
  • My Maricopa
  • Apply Now
  • Request Information
  • Find a Class
  • News
  • Events
  • Employees
Home
District
District
  • Board Operations
    • Board Policies
    • Current Agenda
    • Current Meeting Schedule
    • Faculty and Administration Collaboration Team (FACT)
      • FACT Meeting Schedule, Agendas, and Minutes
      • Adjunct Faculty Team Information
      • Interest Based Problem Solving Information
    • Minutes
    • Motions
    • Notice of Public Meeting
    • Past Agendas
    • Protocol for Addressing the Board
  • Budget
    • Adopted Budgets
    • Proposed Budget
    • Finances
      • Reports
  • Consumer Info
    • Alcohol and Drug Abuse Prevention
      • Biennial Reviews
      • Related Links
    • Disability Resources and Services Information
      • Contacts
      • Disability FAQ
      • DRS Connect
      • EEO/AA
      • Employee Resources
      • Faculty Duties and Responsibilities
      • Legal Services
      • Policies, Procedures, and Regulations
      • Student Resources
      • Training and Corrective Actions
    • FERPA
      • Annual FERPA Notification
      • FERPA Release Form
      • Request to Inspect and Review Education Records Form
      • Revoke FERPA Release Form
      • Withhold Directory Information Form
    • Maricopa County Community Colleges District NSC Resources
    • MCCCD Notifications
      • Annual Notifications
      • General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR)
      • Non-Discrimination Statements
    • Residency and Lawful Presence
      • Acceptable Documents to Establish Lawful Presence
      • Admissions and Records Offices
      • Residency Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)
      • Residency and Legislative Compliance
      • Student Residency Form
      • Western Undergraduate Exchange Form
    • Title IX and Preventing Sexual Harassment
      • MCCCD List of Trained Advisors
      • Reporting a Sexual Harassment, Student Conduct, or Code Violation
      • Reporting a Student of Concern or a Student Conduct and/or Code Violation
      • Title IX/504 Coordinators
  • Legal
    • Petition Signature Solicitations
    • Student & Faculty Resources
    • Trainings and Handouts
    • Equal Employment Opportunity
      • FAQ
      • Procedure for Filing
      • Discrimination Complaint Form
  • Regulations
    • Approval Process
    • Crosswalk
    • Summary
    • Current Proposals
    • 1 Fiscal Management
    • 2 Students
    • 3 Instruction
    • 4 Auxiliary Services
    • 5 Non-Discrimination
    • 6 Board Resources
    • 7 COVID-19 Pandemic Policies
    • Appendices
  • Stewardship
  • Information Technology
    • Anywhere Computing
      • Frequently Asked Questions
      • Guides and Reference Materials
      • Student Conferencing
      • Faculty Conferencing
      • Staff Conferencing
      • Softphone - Stay Connected from Anywhere
      • Top Telecommuting Security Concerns and Best Practices
      • Temporary Telecommuting and Remote Work
      • User Guides for Phones
      • Local Help Desk Resources
    • Information Security
      • 1 Your Data
      • 2 Best Practices
      • 3 Governance
      • 4 Contacts
      • 5 Security Terms
      • 6 Report a Cybersecurity Issue
    • ITS Leadership Team
      • Dr. Mark Koan - Chief Information Officer
      • Jacob Vipond - Information Security Office
      • Joe Licata - Academic Technology
      • Mark Dempt - ERP Support & Development
      • Matt Reeves - Infrastructure and Customer Care
      • Vendor Appointment Request with ITS Leadership
  • Board Operations
    • Board Policies
    • Current Agenda
    • Current Meeting Schedule
    • Faculty and Administration Collaboration Team (FACT)
      • FACT Meeting Schedule, Agendas, and Minutes
      • Adjunct Faculty Team Information
      • Interest Based Problem Solving Information
    • Minutes
    • Motions
    • Notice of Public Meeting
    • Past Agendas
    • Protocol for Addressing the Board
  • Budget
    • Adopted Budgets
    • Proposed Budget
    • Finances
      • Reports
  • Consumer Info
    • Alcohol and Drug Abuse Prevention
      • Biennial Reviews
      • Related Links
    • Disability Resources and Services Information
      • Contacts
      • Disability FAQ
      • DRS Connect
      • EEO/AA
      • Employee Resources
      • Faculty Duties and Responsibilities
      • Legal Services
      • Policies, Procedures, and Regulations
      • Student Resources
      • Training and Corrective Actions
    • FERPA
      • Annual FERPA Notification
      • FERPA Release Form
      • Request to Inspect and Review Education Records Form
      • Revoke FERPA Release Form
      • Withhold Directory Information Form
    • Maricopa County Community Colleges District NSC Resources
    • MCCCD Notifications
      • Annual Notifications
      • General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR)
      • Non-Discrimination Statements
    • Residency and Lawful Presence
      • Acceptable Documents to Establish Lawful Presence
      • Admissions and Records Offices
      • Residency Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)
      • Residency and Legislative Compliance
      • Student Residency Form
      • Western Undergraduate Exchange Form
    • Title IX and Preventing Sexual Harassment
      • MCCCD List of Trained Advisors
      • Reporting a Sexual Harassment, Student Conduct, or Code Violation
      • Reporting a Student of Concern or a Student Conduct and/or Code Violation
      • Title IX/504 Coordinators
  • Legal
    • Petition Signature Solicitations
    • Student & Faculty Resources
    • Trainings and Handouts
    • Equal Employment Opportunity
      • FAQ
      • Procedure for Filing
      • Discrimination Complaint Form
  • Regulations
    • Approval Process
    • Crosswalk
    • Summary
    • Current Proposals
    • 1 Fiscal Management
    • 2 Students
    • 3 Instruction
    • 4 Auxiliary Services
    • 5 Non-Discrimination
    • 6 Board Resources
    • 7 COVID-19 Pandemic Policies
    • Appendices
  • Stewardship
  • Information Technology
    • Anywhere Computing
      • Frequently Asked Questions
      • Guides and Reference Materials
      • Student Conferencing
      • Faculty Conferencing
      • Staff Conferencing
      • Softphone - Stay Connected from Anywhere
      • Top Telecommuting Security Concerns and Best Practices
      • Temporary Telecommuting and Remote Work
      • User Guides for Phones
      • Local Help Desk Resources
    • Information Security
      • 1 Your Data
      • 2 Best Practices
      • 3 Governance
      • 4 Contacts
      • 5 Security Terms
      • 6 Report a Cybersecurity Issue
    • ITS Leadership Team
      • Dr. Mark Koan - Chief Information Officer
      • Jacob Vipond - Information Security Office
      • Joe Licata - Academic Technology
      • Mark Dempt - ERP Support & Development
      • Matt Reeves - Infrastructure and Customer Care
      • Vendor Appointment Request with ITS Leadership
  • Directory
  • Our Colleges
  • My Maricopa
  • Apply Now
  • Request Information
  • Find a Class
  • News
  • Events
  • Employees
  1. Home
  2. Information Technology
  3. ITS Leadership Team
  4. Academic Technology

Academic Technology

Joe Licata

Associate Vice Chancellor
Academic Technology

480.784.0710, Email

Mr. Licata is the Associate Vice Chancellor at the District Office with purview over the Academic Technology (AT) team in IT Services (ITS). The AT-ITS team oversees seven program areas including: learning management, constituent relationship management (CRM) and marketing automation, unified communication, IT service management, data analytics, data interoperability, and monitoring/alerting. The team provides services to the District Office and all ten colleges that make up the Maricopa Community Colleges system. Mr. Licata’s team manages a wide variety of enterprise technology including (but not limited to) Canvas LMS, LinkedIn Learning, SuiteCRM, Mautic, Office 365, Cisco Webex, SysAid, Tableau, Tidal, OpsGenie, UptimeRobot, and more.

Prior to joining Maricopa Community Colleges, Mr. Licata was the Sr. Product Manager for Learning Objects, Inc. (later Cengage Learning), where he was responsible for designing and building a competency-based Learning Management System (LMS) in the Education Technology sector. Under his tenure, the platform was used by millions of students all around the world. Building and selling enterprise software at this level required extensive knowledge of academic technology, development and engineering, network operations, cloud services (AWS specifically), quality assurance/testing, and management consulting.

Before Cengage, Mr. Licata was the Associate Director of Learning Solutions at the University of Maryland Global Campus (UMGC). He directed teams responsible for academic and instructional technology, content operations, and textbook operations. During his tenure at UMGC, Mr. Licata provided technical leadership to support the development of complex cybersecurity learning curriculum technology, guided pathways in the graduate school, syllabus standardization, the wholesale replacement of textbooks in the undergraduate school with open educational resources (OERs), and the creation of an institution-wide digital repository for taxonomically organized learning resources throughout the organization.

Mr. Licata has also been a part-time faculty member for over five years in the Business, IT and Management disciplines. He has taught hundreds of students in areas such as business law, project management, business calculations, procurement management, logistics, risk management, Office 365, and more. He is versed in teaching across multiple modalities including fully online, hybrid, and face-to-face learning. He is currently active in faculty pools at both Phoenix College and Saint Leo University.

Mr. Licata holds a Juris Doctorate in Law from the University of Maryland School of Law, a tier-1 law school and the second eldest Law School in the United States. He also holds a Master of Business Administration and Master of Science in Management from the University of Maryland Global Campus. Mr. Licata completed post-graduate certificate programs in Project Management and International Trade. Professionally, he is an Amazon Web Services Certified Cloud Practitioner (AWS-CCP), Six Sigma Blackbelt (CSS-SSB), Certified Scrum Master (CSM), Certified Scrum Product Owner (CSPO) and he also holds other professional certifications in project management (CompTIAProject+) and IT service management (Axelos ITIL and CompTIA Strata IT).

ITS Leadership Team

  • Dr. Mark Koan - Chief Information Officer
    • Keli Cole - Office of the CIO
    • Jason Pociask - Research & Development
  • Jacob Vipond - Information Security Office
  • Joe Licata - Academic Technology
  • Mark Dempt - ERP Support & Development
    • Adrian Teo - Development
    • Cheryl Laieski - ERP Support
  • Matt Reeves - Infrastructure and Customer Care
    • Ryan Heberling - Customer Care
    • Sean Kennedy - Infrastructure
  • Vendor Appointment Request with ITS Leadership
  • Our Colleges
  • Campus Maps
  • Request Information
  • Future Students
  • Apply Now
  • Tuition and Paying for College
  • Financial Aid
  • Transfer Options
  • Governing Board
  • Employees
  • Careers
  • Annual Notifications
  • Non-Discrimination Statements
  • CARES Act
  • Policies and Legal
  • Budget
  • Institutional Data
  • Trade and Career Training
  • Doing Business with Us
  • Consumer Information
  • Police
  • Disclaimer
  • Handbooks and Manuals
  • Report Web Accessibility Issue

Connect with Maricopa

  • Twitter
  • Facebook
  • YouTube
  • Instagram
  • Linkedin

Download the MyInfo App

  • Download the MyInfo App on the App Store.
  • image/svg+xml Download the MyInfo App on the Play Store.
Maricopa Community Colleges

Maricopa Community Colleges

2411 W. 14th St., Tempe, AZ 85281 | Contact Us | 480-731-8000