Good assessment of IT should reinforce faculty confidence in the goal statements of the university by rewarding all acts that actualize the new IT goals. The focus should be upon what each faculty can contribute to the implementation of the goals, within the context of his or her unique abilities and interests, as a member of an academic team. But, there should also be rewards for the small steps taken by persons learning to use IT, thereby encouraging additional experimentation and skills development. All professors should be rewarded for entering into cooperative IT activities at a level appropriate to their teaching, research, or service tasks. A general implementation of IT goals presents a challenge.
Faculty are specialists in the skills and methods of print culture.
This must be resisted. We must embrace the revolution's potential for new modes of scholarship and accept the challenge of training our faculties in an area that did not exist when most attended graduate school. The university cannot afford to procrastinate. We are no longer the sole provider of graduate education. Clinging to old strategies will cripple the university in the new marketplace.