A university is made for moving forward, and we will serve neither our current nor future communities through recalcitrant paralysis. For all of the hype surrounding the infamous and now clichd newness of the information superhighway, it has the potential to make society new. Since information and communication are aggressively and independently sought-after commodities, the university can have a pivotal role in developing their future forms. We have the equipment for doing so already in hand, both in terms of technology and our inherent curiosity. Through expansion of the University's use of the Internet, a family can become involved in its son's or daughter's intellectual experience.
Administrators can see for themselves what is going on in the classroom.
Giving the present that kind of intellectual and technological attention places that much more importance on, and faith in, the future. Students will be allowed to reconstruct classroom conversations, but more importantly, to construct conversations of their own - and faculty, parents, and alumni will be allowed to create a new virtual campus with constant intellectual growth. After all, as the gate by Houston Hall says with its wrought iron inspiration, Inveniemus Viam Aut Faciemus - we will find a way, or we will make one. Perhaps never before has it been so easy to do both. The conference was sponsored by the SEI Center for Advanced Studies in Management, the Annenberg School for Communication, and the School of Engineering and Applied Science.