As information technology increasingly is used to support all aspects of higher education, user and institutional expectations have risen. IT organizations are thus squeezed between these expectations and the realities of the limits to growth. To help IT executives in higher education in the mid-Atlantic region address these increased expectations, EDUCAUSE presented a new regional conference for the mid-Atlantic region. The conference theme was "Visions, Expectations, and Reality: The Implications of Pervasive Computing."