The Classroom vs The Boardroom


	The Classroom vs The Boardroom

RayWatkins

8-15-2007 5:56 PM

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education, technology, pedagogy, class

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Historian David Noble , co-founder of the National Coalition for Universities in the Public Interest, teaches at York University. His latest book is The Religion of Technology: The Divinity of Man and the Spirit of Invention, published by Knopf.
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Thus, at the very outset of this new age of higher
education, the lines have already been drawn in the struggle which
will ultimately determine its shape. On the one side university
administrators and their myriad commercial partners, on the other
those who constitute the core relation of education: students and
teachers. (The chief slogan of the York faculty during the strike
was "the classroom vs the boardroom"). It is no accident, then, that
the high-tech transformation of higher education is being initiated
and implemented from the top down, either without any student and
faculty involvement in the decision-making or despite it. At UCLA
the administration launched their Initiative during the summer when
many faculty are away and there was little possibility of faculty
oversight or governance; faculty were thus left out of the loop
and kept in the dark about the new web requirement until the last
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