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The CUNY IT Conference has grown significantly since its inception five years ago, from a few hundred attendees at the first conference to well over a thousand this past Friday. Seemingly, every IT person from within CUNY attended, lol (did you ever notice that when “lol” is used, most often nothing funny has preceded it?).

The conference is an interesting convergence of the separate areas of IT at CUNY, with attendees ranging from registrars to systems administrators to instructional designers to, yikes, historians. I attended three panel discussions, in addition to the keynote address, and each event raised important questions about the state of information technology in higher education, generally, and at CUNY specifically. In anticipation of questions and discussion that I hope will come, I’m dividing reviews of each panel into their own posts below. My apologies for taking over the top of the blog, but there was a lot that I found interesting and thus a lot to share.