Abstract
Universities are rushing to replace their home pages with portals--personalized user-centric gateways to Web access. But portals are not just fancy home pages. To build them requires universities to reinvent the way the Web is used and change the way they deal with their data and their users. This presentation will discuss the considerable administrative, technical, and organizational challenges to building portals and a bit of the future of this technology that is about to become ubiquitous.