Dear Commons Community,

I returned home last night to snow in New York after four days in Orlando, Florida attending the OLC Accelerate Conference. It is still snowing this morning at 6:00 am as I write this posting.

The Accelerate Conference was a great success for OLC with attendance exceeding 1300.  It had the feel and excitement  of a pre-COVID OLC conference: lots of excellent presentations including the keynote by C. Edward Watson. He, as did a number of presenters, talked about generative AI.  The vendor exhibit area was packed with dozens of companies demonstrating their software, hardware and services. The plenary panel that I was on yesterday with Patsy Moskal, Jenay Robert, and J. Garvey Pyke entitled, Leading with AI: Pioneering Change in University Teaching, Research, and Administration, had a full house.  Also, I greatly enjoyed being on a panel on Tuesday with long-time co-authors Chuck Dziuban and Patsy Moskal.

In addition to the formal part of Accelerate, I also caught up at lunches and dinners with a number of colleagues, several of whom, I have not seen in years including Eric Fredericksen, Meg Benke, Jeff Seaman, Tanya Joosten, Paige McDonald, Alexandra Pickett, and others.

Brava and bravo to Jennifer Mathes and the OLC staff for a job well-done in all aspects of the conference.

Tony

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