The City University of New York will host its 4th annual all-day conference devoted to information technology and instructional technology the first Friday in December. The conference will offer an overview of the University’s key IT initiatives, an opportunity to explore how technology is changing the nature of instruction, research, and administration, and an occasion to meet with vendors and to hear from IT leadership.
 
The concurrent sessions will provide a rich variety of presentations, encompassing a broad range of topics of interest to CUNY students, faculty, technology staff, and college administrators, giving attendees a greater sense of opportunities IT is making available to them and the roles they have in the changing landscape.  
 
For this year's conference we are especially interested in focusing on demonstrations that technological change results in significant improvements and is emphatically not change for the sake of change. Points of focus:
 
1)       Best Practices -- exemplary indications that change is really change for the better.
2)       Tipping Points -- demonstrations that change results in cultural diffusion and institutional transformation.
3)       Assessments -- research and evaluation showing that tech-mediated change results in real improvement.
4)       Efficiencies -- evidence that technological innovation can result in lesser rather than greater cost.

If you are a member of the CUNY community and wish to submit a proposal for a presentation, you may do so at http://www.dln.cuny.edu/it/proposals.html. Proposals are due no later than 9/14/05.