As you well know, the higher education and not-for-profit sectors are in the midst of an unprecedented level of scrutiny by the IRS and Congress. For the past fifteen years, the Tax Institute For Colleges And Universities has been presented in order to assist colleges and universities to prepare for times such as these by focusing on recent federal tax legislation, federal court decisions, U.S. Treasury Department regulations, and Internal Revenue Service rulings, procedures, and other pronouncements, including current and emerging tax compliance and other business administration issues, which significantly affect colleges and universities and the administrators thereof. With this in mind, it is our pleasure to present the sixteenth annual TIFCU to further assist colleges and universities to be better prepared to fulfill their tax compliance obligations and to more effectively plan for future tax compliance initiatives. We also wish to extend our deep appreciation to our colleagues Ed Jennings (University of Michigan) and Joe Irvine (The Ohio State University) for their assistance in developing the agenda for TIFCU 2009.

TIFCU 2009 will be held at the University Place Conference Center And Hotel on the Indianapolis campus of Indiana University during the period beginning Sunday, May 17, 2009 at 2:00 p.m. (if you wish to register then and enter your hotel room); or at 4:00 p.m. (if you wish to have a light buffet supper with us, the cost of which is included in your institute registration fee); or at 5:50 p.m. (if you only wish to attend the evening speaker sessions) through Tuesday, May 19, 2009, at 3:00 p.m. The delivery method for all TIFCU 2009 sessions are “group/live”, as defined by NASBA.

We hope that you will join us and the 200 - 250 college and university tax professionals who annually attend TIFCU, from all 50 states and the District of Columbia, and who enjoy exchanging professional ideas with and socializing with each other and with our faculty in order to make TIFCU the premier college and university tax institute in the nation.

Lawrence A. Jegen, III The Thomas F. Sheehan Professor Of Tax Law And Policy Indiana University School Of Law Telephone: 317-251-5300 Fax: 317-253-7262 Email: ProfJegen @ aol.com		Stewart T. Cobine Managing Director And Assistant Treasurer, Office Of The Treasurer Indiana University Telephone: 812-855-7657 Fax: 812-855-9779 Email: scobine @ indiana.edu