Natural disasters and campus tragedies - September 11th, Katrina, Virginia Tech, and Northern Illinois - highlight the need for higher education to improve its capacity during emergencies. Many institutions now utilize technology as part of a campus response program. New technologies provide new forms of communication and notification services to aid and assist business continuity and campus security. In this Ready2Net program,campus presidents, campus technology and telecommunications officials, and technology providers discuss the changing landscape of emergency response, crisis management, and campus security.

Inside Higher Education commentary about the MPAA's acknowledgement that entertainment industry executives used flawed data from an aggressively publicized consultant's report to push for federal action on illegal file sharing by college students.

EDUCAUSE LIVE WebCast (7 Dec 2007): This presentation focuses on how Big Music and Big Hollywood have targeted colleges and universities via press releases and Congressional lobbying initiatives while largely ignoring the much larger amount of unauthorized P2P file sharing taking place on commercial networks.

Inside Higher Education commentary about the PR efforts to portray colleges and universities as ambivalent and unengaged in efforts to stem P2P piracy on campus networks (15 Nov 2007)

Keynote presentation prepared for the National Day of Distance Learning sponsored by the Brazilian Ministry of Education, the Association for Distance Education in Brazil (ABED), and CIEE (Sao Paulo, Brazil: 27 Nov 2007)

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EDUCAUSE Review, vol. 42, no. 6 (November/December 2007): 148–149

Inside Higher Education VIEW article about the recent initiatives by the RIAA and the MPAA to hold colleges and universities responsible for the broader, consumer-market problems of illegal P2P downloading of music and movies. (Also of interest: The Morning After Grokster, Digital Tweed, August 2005.)

Keynote presentation, 2007 EDUCAUSE Enterprise Conference (podcast and PDF file).

EDUCAUSE Review article about the role of information technology in the campus and public policy discussions following the release of the September 2006 Spellings Commission report, A Test of Leadership: Charting the Future of U.S. Higher Education (US Dept of Education, Sept, 2006).

Inside Higher Education VIEW article about Neumont University, the only postsecondary institution cited by the Spellings Commission for “innovation in curriculum development and program delivery."