CSUN University News Clippings

Faculty and Technology Officials Fight Over College Values

(November 6, 2009)

By Josh Fischman

Denver– “This is another sign of the culture war between faculty and IT,” said a vice president for technology and administration at a medium-sized state university. The official, musing after a session on budget crises here at the Educause 2009 technology meeting, said professors fought hard to keep “low performing” programs in the curriculum, while his university just got the news they would have to lay off 50 or 60 people by Christmas. By low performance, he meant programs that had low enrollment or produced relatively few graduates.

“They say, ‘Isn’t music, or philosphy, important to the university, and to life?’” he said, arguing that decisions about cuts should be made on the basis of what is central to his university’s mission and that faculty want to keep all programs going while, across the country, nearly half of IT departments responding to the newest Campus Computing Project survey say they are facing cuts.……..

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Publication: The Chronicle of Higher Education