Professors

The following professors and/or professionals were instrumental in the research for this topic. Their published work, both in journals and on the Internet, have proved insightful for the subject of higher education and technology. These professionals are considered to possess excellent insight into technology and the higher education market.

Dr. Sid Das

Professor of Decision Science, School of Management
George Mason University

William H. Graves

Associate Provost for Information Technology
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Stephen A. Hoenack

Director, Hubert H. Humphrey Institute
University of Minnesota

William F. Massy

Director, Stanford Institute for Higher Education Research, Stanford University

Michael O'Malley

Professor of History and Art History
George Mason University

New Media Projects
Associate Director, Center for History and New Media, George Mason University
Web-Based Courses

"Magic, Illusion and Detection in Turn of the Century America," at http://chnm.gmu.edu/magic

"Between the Wars: The US 1919-1940," at http://chnm.gmu.edu/hist409

"The United States, 1865-1877," at http://chnm.gmu.edu/courses/122

"Jacksonian America," at http://chnm.gmu.edu/jackson

Donald Rallis

Department of Geography
Mary Washington College

The Africa Library website

Dr. Stephen Ruth

Director, International Center for Applied Studies in Information Technology
Professor of Decision Sciences, School of Management
George Mason University

Carol A. Twigg

Vice President, Educom

Richard Vigilante

Richard Vigilante is director of the Information Technologies Institute at New York University's School of Continuing Education. Through a professional staff of 10 and an adjunct faculty of 100, the Institute offers seventeen credit and noncredit programs comprising 100 courses in database management, telecommunications, Internet technologies, systems analysis and programming, and multimedia to over 4,500 students annually. Since 1992, Dr. Vigilante has managed and taught courses in The Virtual College, NYU's distance education system for delivering interactive multimedia telecourses to student PCs over digital phone lines. He has received $1.3 million in grants from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation (1993-1996) to develop and evaluate a series of interactive video telecourses for a new graduate program in information technology. He has been an associate professor of management systems at Columbia University (1980-88) and director of New York City's Office of Educational Statistics (1975-80), where he led the development of the world's largest student information system. He holds an M.P.A. and Ph.D. in public administration from New York University.

John Wallin

Professor, Institute for Computational Sciences and Informatics
George Mason University

Robert Zemsky

Professor and Director, Institute for Research on Higher Education
University of Pennsylvania