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Volume 3 Issue 10November 1999

Technology Will Help Community Colleges Meet Needs

A new book entitled “Taking a Big Picture Look @Technology, Learning & the Community College,” explores what steps community colleges need to take to prepare students for working in the high-tech marketplace.

The book, written by 15 authors and co-edited by Mark D. Milton and Cindy L. Miles, will be published in December or January by the League for Innovation in the Community College. The authors say community colleges need to create a student-centered educational environment that makes every effort to expose students to the latest in relevant technology. Some schools are doing this already by offering distance-learning programs and establishing sophisticated Web sites that allow students to register and pay for classes and generally avoid academic bureaucracies. Also, college presidents are hiring younger, more technology-savvy professors to replace retiring faculty.

The League for Innovation surveyed 523 college presidents and CEOs while preparing the book.

Reprinted from Chronicle of Higher Education Online 10/25/99