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"Higher Education @ Risk!": guest lecture 10/11

When: Thursday, October 11th @ 11:00 a.m.
Where: Main Library, Level 1 Rapaporte Treasure Hall

Bruised by negative publicity for everything from uncontrolled prices to abetting “illegal file-sharing,” higher education struggles to educate a new generation of students and provide an innovative rich environment for its researchers in an increasingly competitive global market and is at risk of losing its relative autonomy because of the encroaching influences of government regulation, commoditization of information and knowledge, and commercialization of its services.

Tracy Mitrano, Director of IT Policy and University Computer Policy and Law Program at Cornell University discusses how higher education is at risk as our millennial institution poises itself for another 1,000 years.

Speaker Bio: Tracy Mitrano is the Director of IT Policy and University Computer Policy and Law Program in the Office of Information Technologies at Cornell University. Dr. Mitrano has a doctorate in American history from Binghamton University and a law degree from Cornell Law School. The University of Iowa named her the 2003 Ada Stoflet Lecturer. Dr. Mitrano is also the Cornell director of the EDUCAUSE/Cornell Institute for Computer Policy and Law
Program. Mitrano is on the InCommon Steering Committee, EDUCAUSE Program
Committee 2005, I2/EDUCAUSE Security Task Force, Co-Chair of the Law and Policy Task Force and on the Faculty for 2005 of the Masters of Network Economy, Universite Cattolica, in Piacenza, Italy.

Light refreshments will be served.