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Universities in the Information Age: Changing Work, Organization, and Values in Academic Science and Engineering

Gary Rhoades

Sheila Slaughter

University of Arizona

This article discusses a new program for collaborative study of information technology, commercialization intellectual property and transformations of education research practives in universities. Three themes define the program. First, the authors investigate the ways that information technologies shape content, organization, and delivery of faculty work. Second, they examine the interplay of issues of intellectually property, technology, commercialization, and academic research. Third, ethical issues information raise and the values they embody are explored. The research and training undertaken brings together problems usually treated by sepatate disciplines and focuses on technologies used by researchers and advanced students in various disciplines who shape and even create communications technologies. The intent is to explore these questions through research and teaching and in the process develop a new generation of scholars who are cognizant of changing patterns in the social relations of science and technology.

Bulletin of Science, Technology & Society, Vol. 21, No. 2, 108-118 (2001)
DOI: 10.1177/027046760102100205


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