 Hi, I'm Greg Jackson, Vice President at EDUCAUSE for, among other things, our Washington DC office and our work on IT policy. I'd like to tell you a little bit about the areas we cover, and then tell you a little bit more about two issues we worked on this year. For the most part, the issues we work on cluster into the six overlapping agglomerations you see here. Some issues involve public policy, meaning the feds are state, and some issues are pretty much within a campus purview. Now, let me talk about a couple of specific issues. Recently, the entertainment industry, perhaps emboldened by its success imposing requirements on higher education, sought to make networks much more responsible for what they like to call piracy. The movie and music industries pushed for two laws nicknamed SOPA and PIPPA. We in EDUCAUSE had long argued, on behalf of higher education, that copyright infringement is an issue between consumers and producers of copyrighted material. We found SOPA and PIPPA wild excessive and quite antithetical to our position. We began meeting with congressional staff to argue the bills should be changed or defeated. This time, we found ourselves with important allies. SOPA and PIPPA didn't only threaten higher education, they also threatened sharing sites such as YouTube and cornerstones of online information such as Wikipedia. The social media industry woke up. Protection to SOPA and PIPPA spread, and we became part of a broad campaign that eventually induced the sponsors of the legislation to withdraw it for reconsideration. The battle ain't over yet, but this was by any measure a great success in which we played early, consistent and productive roles. The SOPA-PIPPA issue is probably one you'd heard of, especially if you tried to use Wikipedia on January 18th, 2012. The other issue I'll talk about today is less visible. States generally specify what standards colleges and universities must meet to operate. In many cases, these requirements are benign, especially for accredited institutions and have not been controversial. Until, that is, three things happened. First, we in higher education learned how to conduct classes over the Internet. Second, lots of homes got broadband Internet and so could readily take online classes. Third, resources from traditional sources began to dry up. Colleges and universities went online to attract new students and new tuition bucks. That often meant enrolling students at a distance in other states over the Internet. States had long experience authorizing institutions within their own borders, but few, if any institutions or states, had thought about how intra-state authorization might affect interstate online distance education. Then the feds jumped in, apparently assuming that state authorization across borders wasn't a problem. The Department of Education attempted to link federal financial aid to cross-border state authorization. Confusion and furor ensued. A court eventually put the federal attempt aside, and the Department of Education has tabled its effort for now. The issue remains, though, how to find the right balance between reasonable requirements and unreasonable burdens. Now, you might ask, why is this an IT issue for EDUCAUSE? The answer is simple. EDUCAUSE believes e-learning at a distance is important to higher education. If distance learning were suddenly to be constrained by a wave of protectionism, e-learning progress might be stymied. As a result, we work behind the scenes with several other organizations to push back against federal regulation in this area. In the event, the court's decision induced the Department of Education to hold off any action, so there's room for the community to work on reasonable solutions. So, those are the kinds of things we work on in EDUCAUSE policy. It's hard to predict what next year will bring, but we're guessing that there will be important new policy challenges around accessibility, privacy, bring your own device, and maybe network neutrality. I hope that you will follow our work through our newsletter, Policy Digest, that you will think about joining one of our campus IT policy workshops, and that you will be in touch if there are ways we can be helpful.