The deadline to register for the Fall 2010 CNI membership meeting is this FRIDAY, NOV. 12th. If you haven’t registered for the meeting or made hotel accommodations, please do so by Friday. Remember to identify yourself as an attendee of the CNI meeting for a discounted rate. If you have questions about your meeting registration, please contact Jackie Eudell at jackie@cni.org. The meeting will be held at the Crystal Gateway Marriott Hotel in Arlington, VA on December 13-14.
Plenary Sessions
Daniel Cohen, director of the Center for History and New Media at George Mason University will present the plenary talk The Ivory Tower and the Open Web, and CNI Director Clifford Lynch will open the meeting with a presentation of the 2010-11 CNI Program Plan.
Project Briefings
Over thirty-five project briefings will address key issues and report on innovative digital projects. Many of our members are grappling with institutional strategies to address the recent National Science Foundation (NSF) guidelines for inclusion of a data plan in grant proposals; representatives from Princeton and Purdue will discuss their campus’s programs. Leaders from NSF will describe current program directions; Alan Blatecky will discuss NSF’s cyberinfrastructure initiatives and Myron Gutmann and Amy Friedlander will describe a new activity of the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences Directorate.
The EDUCAUSE Learning Initiative (ELI) has a new initiative, Seeking Evidence of Impact, examining broad issues related to how we demonstrate the role of technology in improving learning. Malcolm Brown, director of ELI and CNI’s Joan Lippincott will facilitate this session, which will also encourage attendees to contribute examples and describe what kinds of programming would be useful to them in this area. Ira Fuchs of EDUCAUSE will provide an update on the Next Generation Learning Challenge, a major initiative to identify and scale technology-enabled approaches that dramatically improve college readiness and completion.
Presenters from the University of Michigan, Cornell, and Duke will address new digital publishing strategies. Leaders from the Bamboo Technology Project will describe the new phase of their initiative to address needs of the humanities e-research community.
This diverse set of project briefings is only a small sample of the sessions that will be available at the fall meeting. More details are forthcoming on the meeting Web site: https://www.cni.org/tfms/2010b.fall/
We look forward to seeing you in Arlington!