Who wants to be a college president A computer in every port Massachusetts could be the first state in the nation to have all of its public college students pack a laptop. Under an ambitious three-year information technology plan for public higher education, students and faculty would get computers, institutions would get wireless networks and electronic classrooms, and everyone would get a systemwide electronic library. The plan has its good and bad points, one AFT local has found.
Many schools seem blissfully unaware of the risk associated with moving online.
Online education could be the latest in a string of overhyped Internet concepts in which an excess of giddy supply overestimates the demand. The venture capitalists driving the Internet boom are generally thrilled if one in five investments hits big. What happens to the four in five schools that don't pay off receives considerably less attention. Eventually it is going to turn the higher-education market on its head. The game lets you make decisions in every area of campus life, under the communicative aegis of a board of trustees.