There has been growing animosity between faculty and computer techies.
Many faculty members feel that they are forced to learn new technology without much support.
They tend to get frustrated easily, when they don't understand something, not realizing that it takes a long time to learn about computing regardless their academic achievement. On the side of computer techies, they have to deal with faculty members who claim their power without knowledge on computing. As computing has been changing power structure rapidly in every institution, many faculty members feel that they are losing control, whereas techies gain more power in this field. Both sides do not understand, nor communicate with each other. In this papaer, I would like to address these issues and suggest how to bridge the gap between computer techies and faculty members, and discuss an important role a computer co-ordinator can play in the process of computerization.