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7/23/2003
The best news may be that our leaders and visionaries in higher education are finally beginning to realize what some of us have been preaching for a long time, that information technology is the medium and the environment of teaching and learning in the knowledge age. When our leaders drop back and think about key values (which is not often enough!), they’re starting more and more to bring in IT folks at the beginning of the discussion.
Sometime soon the NAS project, Impact of Information Technology for the Future of the Research University, is going to convene top-level discussions to which teams of higher ed leaders will be brought in. There’ll be presidents, provosts, chancellors, and CFOs. But they’re also planning to bring along the CIOs as well. And that’s really good news for everyone in higher education information technology work.
You can download a complimentary MP3 of Duderstadt’s presentation at http://www.scup.org/38/archives/plenary.htm.
About the author: Terry Calhoun is Director of Communications and Publications for the Society
for College and University Planning (SCUP). You can contact him through CT's IT Trends forum by clicking here. View more articles by Terry Calhoun.
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