The AFT Higher Education department’s latest technology resource reflects the evolving nature of technology use and innovation on campus. Technology Review: Key Trends, Bargaining Strategies and Educational Issues provides an overview of the way technology affects cost, academic and governance issues for faculty and staff in the classroom and in student service areas. It also looks at distance education from both the academic and bargaining standpoints, wrapping up with an exploration of the pedagogical and union implications of distance learning.

The Review features the work of two AFT Higher Education members, Tom Kriger and Cynthia Villanti. It looks at key union issues such as academic control, class size and compensation, through case study analyses of how our unions handled matters at the University of Massachusetts, Suffolk Community College and Mohawk Valley College.

The Review also comes to readers in a binder. This allows the AFT to provide updates and expansions as more locals negotiate innovative language and respond to the changing demands of technology on the workplace. The Review also has a clever system of icons to guide the reader to other aids and resources, both within the binder and at Web sites or organizations in the real and virtual worlds beyond. To find out how to get your Technology Review, go to www.aft.org/topics/tech-highered/index.htm. [Barbara McKenna / AFT On Campus]

[November 18, 2003]