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DUCAUSE is a nonprofit association whose mission is to advance higher education by promoting the intelligent use of information technology.

nnovative Planning for the 21st-Century Academy: Creating Reality Through Technology, Collaboration, and Best Practices

Whether your focus is administrative services, information resources, teaching and learning, technology infrastructure, or management, you can benefit from attending the Seventh Annual EDUCAUSE Mid-Atlantic Regional Conference, January 15–17, 2008. Join us at the Baltimore Marriot Waterfront to:

• Hear from innovators and forward thinkers about current and emerging best practices in higher education information services
• Connect with others in positions similar to yours to exchange experiences and explore ways to tackle common challenges
• Learn about what’s going on in the profession and at the institutions in your area

This year's conference, "Innovative Planning for the 21st-Century Academy: Creating Reality Through Technology, Collaboration, and Best Practices," will explore innovative, collaborative, and practical responses to the complex challenges of shifting student demographics and expectations, expanding teaching and learning community support needs, increasing government compliancy issues, growing demand for assessment and accountability, constantly advancing technologies, continual interoperability issues, and decreasing resources.

Preconference seminars begin the morning of January 15, with the full conference program January 15–17, 2008. The program follows five key tracks:

• Enterprise Infrastructure and Technology for a New Age
• The Leadership Challenge in the 21st Century
• Leveraging 21st-Century Technology for User Services and Support
• Teaching and Learning in a Complex and Changing World
• Corporate and Campus Solutions

Social software like PennTags challenges the traditional model of open source software development. Such software relies on maximizing the community of users rather than the number of software installations and poses questions about the adoption of transportable metadata, privacy issues in sharing content across institutional boundaries, and open source hosted services.

Welcome to Baltimore.org, the official website for Baltimore tourism, where you will find information on the best that the city has to offer. With something around every corner to either see or do, Baltimore is certainly an exciting place to visit. While here you may want to explore a few of our famous Baltimore Museums such as the Baltimore Aquarium, the Maryland Science Center, The National Great Blacks In Wax Museum, or The Reginald F. Lewis Museum of Maryland African American History. Baltimore also has a very rich, cultural history and by touring a historic site like Fort McHenry - home of the National Anthem - you will gain a new perspective of Baltimore. Celebrate black history by picking up a copy of our African American Heritage and Attractions Guide and we'll introduce you to places that you may not have heard of and others that you've wanted to see.

Inner Harbor is home to many tasty restaurants, unique shopping, famous museums, live entertainment and local pubs and taverns. Sports fans will want to stop at Camden Yards to watch the Baltimore Orioles play ball or catch a Baltimore Ravens football game a short distance away, where it's easy to get in on the action, spirit and fun of Baltimore!