C-Level View :: May 23, 2007 -- Campus Technology

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C-Level View :: May 23, 2007

05/23/07

Executive View

An interview with Eben Moglen, Software Freedom Law Center about the future of collaboration and technology.

By Mary Grush

CT: Will technology engender more collaboration?

Moglen: Human beings are social animals. They don't collaborate because; they collaborate as a result of what they are. Human beings collaborate by nature. We are biologically crafted for collaboration. The fundamental question of human social structure is the question of the scale of that collaboration and the nature of its direction. And, human societies over the long secular course of human history have evolved ways of extending the reach of those forms of social collaboration....

Worth Noting

SMU Offers 5-Year Masters in Comp Sci Plus Gaming: Southern Methodist University is the latest campus to embrace computer gaming as a degree program. SMU said it will offer a bachelor's degree in computer science and a master's degree in video game development within five years. SMU will also offer an option for students to receive a bachelor's degree in fine arts and a master's degree in video game development....
Mississippi College System Adopts Blackboard: A statewide initiative launched in Mississippi will bring Blackboard's CMS and LOM systems to 15 community and junior colleges. The program was initiated by the Mississippi State Board for Community and Junior Colleges. Through a multi-year, multi-million-dollar investment, the 15-campus Mississippi Community College System, which serves about 65,000 students, will deploy a fully hosted version of the Blackboard Academic Suite and the Blackboard Outcomes System....

From The Personnel Office

Arizona's Jackson New CIO at U of Illinois-Urbana: University of Arizona Chief Information Officer Sally Jackson was named CIO at the University of Illinois, where she is an alumna. Jackson, who will start this week (May 21), will hold a joint appointment as a professor of speech communications....
UW Madison Narrows Field to 3 in CIO Search: The University of Wisconsin-Madison last week narrowed its search for a new chief information officer and vice provost for information technology to three finalists. The new CIO position will oversee DoIT, the central technology organization on campus with more than 500 full-time employees and a budget of more than $70 million....