In spite of all the hype about the need for more computers in education, there is no evidence that students surrounded by technology do any better than students who are not. If Internet technology really is the panacea to education's problems, there will be plenty of other, better opportunities down the road. During meetings at CSUN with faculty, students and administrators to discuss the CETI corporate partnership, senior administrators made dire warnings that requests for delays and expressions of doubt might scare off the corporations and spoil this top-down deal. If that's all it takes to scare them off, there should be no deal. Any major changes to our state universities should be open to public scrutiny, and if the light of day makes the corporations jittery enough to consider bailing, they are not the kinds of business partners CSUN and the other CSU campuses need.
Corporations already control much of our lives.