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NJEDge plays a key role in ensuring that Passaic County Community College remains on the cutting edge of technology. Each year our faculty and administrators take advantage of the outstanding development opportunities offered by NJEDge. We can always count on the multi-talented NJEDge staff to support our technology needs! Steven M. Rose President, Passaic County Community College Chair, NJEDge.Net Board

Resources are needed for good professional development and NJEDge provides those resources. We depend on NJEDge for opportunities to grow and learn; whether it’s at the Annual Conference, the Best Practices Showcase, the individual user group meetings or simply the opportunities to network with others in similar positions across all New Jersey higher education institutions. NJEDge also provides our faculty and students with access to educational videos through NJVID. It provides the William Paterson University community with a huge resource of vetted educational videos as well as a way to upload self-created videos for teaching and learning. In addition, NJEDge provides access to Internet2 for research and scholarly sharing. All of these rich resources are part of our membership and contribute to the value of being part of NJEDge.Net.

Kathleen Waldron, President, William Paterson University Treasurer, NJEDge.Net Board 6 • NJEDge.Net ANNUAL REPORT

The establishment of NJEDge.Net is among the noteworthy accomplishments of the New Jersey Presidents’ Council as a means of encouraging partnerships and collaborations within New Jersey’s system of higher education. NJEDge.Net has brought significant resources to institutions at considerable cost-savings. NJIT is proud to have played a pivotal leadership role in its founding. Today the same partnerships and collaborations prepare NJIT and our sister institutions to address new technological challenges and to share and learn from one another in areas that transcend IT infrastructure. As a president and member of the Executive Committee, I am most proud to help oversee this transformation as services expand to those that directly benefit students, faculty, staff and researchers at large and small institutions alike. Joel S. Bloom, President, New Jersey Institute of Technology Vice-Chair, NJEDge.Net Board

From its conception, I have always viewed NJEDge’s biggest value to be a facilitator of collaboration. From the Early Network Advisory Board to the Educational Activities Task Force to the Data and Video Resource Groups, the Strategic Planning discussions and, of course, the Annual Conference; NJEDge facilitates collaboration. The creation of the physical network providing connectivity and services to resources otherwise not easily available or affordable is certainly a strong aspect of what NJEDge provides. But above all, for us it is really the extensive collaboration.

Neal M. Sturm Vice President & Chief Information Officer Fairleigh Dickinson University Secretary, NJEDge.Net Board