The University of Central Florida (UCF) has experienced record-setting growth (currently the third largest university with over 53,500 students). Creative classroom scheduling using blended courses is one strategy that addresses growth demands. By placing two/three courses in one classroom, with the rest of the coursework conducted online, UCF has avoided millions of dollars in construction costs. In the past ten years, student registrations in blended courses have increased over 450%.The rise of UCF's Regional Campus system has added a new dimension. UCF's eleven Regional Campuses are located throughout Central Florida's "city-state" and allow the university to meet students where they work and live. In 2007, UCF received a $650,000 grant from Sloan-C to develop a "Localness" program that leveraged the individual successes of the Regional Campuses and the university's Online@UCF presence. The result was a comprehensive initiative that meets students' learning needs in an extraordinarily flexible way across the entire spectrum of blended learning. At the institutional level, students chose seamlessly between Regional Campus, Main Campus, and online offerings, thus adhering to the university's core value of access. At the programmatic level, students were offered various choices of face-to-face, hybrid/blended, and completely online courses to meet degree requirements. At the course level, hybrid/blended courses allowed some coursework to be completed in class and some online. At the assignment level, e-learning strategies were employed throughout the various curricula, even within courses that were officially classified as "face to face." The overarching theme was that through technology-based learning, regional campuses, and strategic planning, no student was a "distant" learner. All students were "local" and could creatively select the best options for their own academic progress, regardless of delivery modality or location. Although the project is ongoing, results have been gathered and will be shared in the presentation.