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Join us at EDUCAUSE 2009, November 3–6 in Denver, an unsurpassed opportunity to tap into an expansive pool of the best thinking in higher education IT.

Yesterday, EDUCAUSE joined Internet2 and ACUTA in submitting comments on the development of a national broadband plan. In April, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) announced that it was beginning the process of developing a plan that would “ensure that every American has access to broadband capability.” In taking the first steps toward that goal, the commission sought feedback from a variety of stakeholders, including consumers, industry, government, and non-profits.

The May/June 2009 EDUCAUSE Review is now available online.

Two summer Campus Architecture Middleware Planning (CAMP) workshops in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, are now open for registration: CAMP: Practical Building Blocks for Access Management, June 15–17, and

Registration is now open for the EDUCAUSE Institute Learning Technology Leadership program, July 20–24 in Burlington, Vermont, a specially tailored, immersive program for leaders of information technology in higher education.

The 2009 Cornell University Institute for Computer Policy and Law in New York, July 20-23, is an intensive three and a half-day seminar examining the impact that widespread use of the Internet has on college and university policies, procedures, and judicial systems.

Attendees of the Southeast Regional Conference 2009 will have the opportunity to bring information back to campus to share with colleagues, including conference proceedings and resources.

Attendees of the Security Professionals Conference 2009, "Safeguarding Our IT Assets, Protecting Our Community's Privacy," April 20-22 in Atlanta, Georgia, will have the opportunity to bring information back to campus to share with colleagues, including conference proceedings and resources.

The first exclusively online edition of EDUCAUSE Quarterly focuses on learning spaces. Practical case studies cover space design based on student use and pedagogical needs, technology implementation, informal and formal space types from libraries to labs to classrooms, and alternatives to physical space such as Second Life and Twitter.

The EDUCAUSE Learning Initiative's 7 Things You Should Know About... series on emerging learning technologies is one of EDUCAUSE's most popular resources. The series has now expanded to cover hot topics of interest to the wider higher ed IT community, and the first brief is on peer-to-peer file sharing. Read the brief.