Jonathan Alger is Senior Vice President and General Counsel at Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, where he oversees legal affairs for all of the University's campuses in New Brunswick/ Piscataway, Newark, and Camden. Before coming to Rutgers, he was Assistant General Counsel at the University of Michigan. At Michigan, Mr. Alger coordinated two landmark admissions lawsuits in the U.S. Supreme Court. He has also taught courses on higher education law and intellectual property and information law. Mr. Alger previously served as counsel for the national office of the American Association of University Professors (AAUP) in Washington, DC, and as an attorney- advisor in the headquarters of the U.S. Department of Education's Office for Civil Rights. Mr. Alger graduated with Honors from Harvard Law School, and with High Honors and Phi Beta Kappa from Swarthmore College and its External Examinations Program. He currently serves as the Second Vice President of NACUA.

Steve McDonald is General Counsel at Rhode Island School of Design and previously served as Associate Legal Counsel at The Ohio State University. He has handled a number of Internet-related legal matters, ranging from alleged infringements of copyrighted materials on student web pages to investigations of computer break-ins to an e-mail death threat to Socks the cat. He began his legal career at Jones, Day, Reavis & Pogue, where he represented CompuServe in Cubby v. CompuServe, the first online libel case, and he also has taught courses in Internet law at Ohio State’s College of Law and at Capital University Law School. He is a past member of NACUA’s Board of Directors and is the editor of its The Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act: A Legal Compendium. He received his A.B. from Duke University and his J.D. from Yale Law School.

Rodney Petersen is a Government Relations Officer with EDUCAUSE and the Coordinator of the EDUCAUSE⁄Internet2 Computer and Network Security Task Force. He was formerly the Director of IT Policy and Planning in the Office of the Vice President and Chief Information Officer at the University of Maryland where he was the founder of Project NEThics - a group whose mission is to ensure responsible use of information technology through user education and enforcement of acceptable use guidelines. He received his law degree from Wake Forest University. He also received a certificate as an Advanced Graduate Specialist in Education Policy, Planning, and Administration from the University of Maryland. He writes and speaks regularly on topics related to higher education law and policy. He is the co-editor of a book in the EDUCAUSE Leadership Strategy Series entitled "Computer and Network Security in Higher Education". He is also a founding member of the Association of College and University Policy Administrators and the author of "A Primer on Policy Development for Institutions of Higher Education" and "A Framework for IT Policy Development".

Margaret (Peg) O'Donnell is the Associate General Counsel for Policy and Compliance at The Catholic University of America. Ms. O'Donnell is the main author of The Campus Legal Information Clearinghouse web page which can be found at http://counsel.cua.edu. She oversees the policy development process at The Catholic University of America. She is the author of an article on FERPA that was published in the Journal of College and University Law. She received her BS from the University of Virginia and her JD from the University of Wisconsin.