Preparing for the Revolution Information Technology and the Future of the Research University (2002) / Chapter Skim
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4. Choosing the Future: Findings and Options
4. Choosing the Future: Findings and Options
Pages 45-54
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Some might argue that while other societal institutions have been transformed or made obsolete by information technology, this is no guarantee that the same will happen to the research university. After all, given the important role of this institution in society and the economy, and its political strength at the statehouse and national levels, it has proven able to resist or deflect outside pressures in the past.
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This movement, they suggest, could presage a future in which education is "delivered" by information technology and courses are created by teams of adjunct faculty, contract lecturers, and technical helpers rather than by tenured professors, with the courses owned by the university (Noble, 20011. Whether or not one shares these particular concerns, it is clear that a range of futures is possible for the research university.
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· The impact of information technology on the research university will likely be profound, rapid, ant! discontinuousjust as it has been and will continue to be for our other social institutions and the economy.
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· Although we are confident that information technology will continue its rapid growth for the foreseeable future and may ultimately have profound impacts on human behavior and social institutions such as the research university, it is far more difficult to predict these impacts with any precision. Nevertheless, higher education must develop mechanisms to at least sense the potential changes anc!
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The panel believes that the higher-education community should create ongoing mechanisms for: ., · Monitoring technological changes and the consequent scholarly, educational, and social shifts. · Identifying crucial issues, challenges, and opportunities for the research university and the broader higher-education enterprise.
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For the Higher education Enterprise and its Public Stakeholders How should the research university address the rapidly evolving commercial marketplace for educational services and content including, in particular, the for-profit and dot.com providers? How should universities grapple with the forces of aggregation and clisaggregation associated with technology-ciriven restructuring of the higher-education enterprise?
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A third reason for a continuing clialogue on information technology and the research university is that the activity can serve as an ongoing mechanism to track technological changes and their implications for universities. Inclividual institutions would be unlikely to clo this systematically on their own.
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As a result of this three-year project, we expect that the intellectual community studying issues related to information technology and the research university will be enlarged and ;..
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If we are successful, the research university can remain a major source of sustenance for a free and spirited democracy, a vibrant intellectual life, a healthy economy, and other national values.
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