TBers, I know a number of faculty on this Teaching Breakfast list are interested in Distance Learning and the growth of it in SUNY. Posted below is a recent announcement from Chancellor King and Provost Salins concerning expansion of support for the SUNY Learning Network. The CourseSpace product mentioned below is similar to Blackboard and one whose development I continue to watch closely. Jim Greenberg ************ Friends of SUNY Learning Environments, I am pleased to announce that the Chancellor, Vice Chancellor and Chief Financial Officer David Richter, and the Vice-Chancellor and Provost Peter Salins have approved eight new positions for Learning Environments. These positions will help us to achieve our goals in serving the growing number of faculty, students and campuses that will be using CourseSpace and SLN, quickly developing the technology supporting those missions, reaching new constituencies for SUNY online learning, and developing new academic programs online. This unprecedented slate of positions is a sign of the trust in and importance placed on e-learning and academic technology in general at System Administration. They include Director of Outreach and Communication Director, Learning Environments Technology Assistant Director, CourseSpace Lead Programmer Analyst Multimedia Instructional Designers (2) Help Desk Analysts (2) Details about these positions can be found at http://le.suny.edu Please disseminate these postings or the link to them as widely as you see fit to qualified friends, associates and colleagues. Print ads will be appearing in the Sunday New York Times Education Section and in the Chronicle of Higher Education, as well as some websites such as Educause. If you have suggestions for other venues, please let me know. David Porush, Executive Director SUNY Learning Environments