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The call for proposals for the NJEDge 2009 Annual Conference is still open. They are particularly interested now in proposals for the areas of: Policy Issues & Institutional Strategic Planning, Technology Management (projects and work on the network, Internet, IT management), Enterprise Computing, administrative services, Authentication & Federated Identity Management, Video Systems and networking.

They are open to proposals on enrollment/financial aid, Banner, fund raising/Raiser’s Edge, and perhaps more prescient presentations of new policy and strategic planning changed due to the economy. Proposals that are formed in collaboration are definitely of interest.

The Program Committee will be deciding on all submitted proposals and the determination will be complete by August 12 when the full agenda will be posted.

Conference 6.0 will address the broad interests and concerns of the New Jersey Higher Education community, K-12, research institutes, hospitals and other nonprofit partners, and provide opportunities for you to explore innovations in educational and administrative technologies with your colleagues. At a time when national economy is at a crisis level opportunities for faculty development are curbed. IT budgets are cut or on hold. NJEDge.Net is ready to step up and investigate course management systems, videoconferencing, help desk issues, identity management, backbone and system upgrades and other means to achieve economies of scale across the academic enterprise. Conference 6.0 "Building a Community through Collaboration, bit by bytes" is the antidote! For 2½ days faculty, professional staff, librarians, institutional researchers, CIOs and other executive administrators will see best practices, emerging technologies, vendor exhibits, and other opportunities for faculty development in an atmosphere that fosters collaboration.