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:  http://www.cni.org/tfms/2010b.fall/