ACPA Webinar: The Impact of Advancing Technology on Campus Culture
ACPA is offering a webinar (it’s currently the last one listed at the bottom of that page) on Thursday, April 26, 2007, from 2:00 pm until 3:30 pm EST. It’s entitled “The Impact of Advancing Technology on Campus Culture” and it will be presented by Dr. Jonathan Kandell from the University of Maryland. Based on its description it may be another “fear session” (I am not heartened when the abstract describes e-mail, cell phones, and music sharing as “emerging technologies”) but I honestly hope that I am mistaken and the views presented will be well-balanced and supported by contemporary research. I hope I’m wrong because Dr. Kandell’s qualifications certainly seem to be very impressive! Unless I can convince my colleagues in student life (I work in our merged IT/library division) to attend and split the cost, $109 for a hour-and-a-half webinar is out of my personal price range. As always, I encourage you to check out this professional development opportunity and, if possible, attend, preferably in a large conference room where others (including students – especially graduate students studying in higher ed/student affairs) can share the experience and engage with one another.
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I agree that labeling technologies that are 10 years old as “emerging” is disheartening. I think that this constant and consistent viewpoint is presented far too often in Student Affairs. Technology has somehow become frozen in time for student affairs folks. It maintains a student affairs culture that never has to learn, adapt, and create. The technology status quo for most student affairs admins is nurtured by a plethora of sessions which claim that email, cell phones, instant messaging, mp3’s, etc. are “emerging”.
p.s. I love that my site will forever be the link for “fear sessions.” LOL.