The AUCC chose to ask essentially the same question in nine different ways. That question - how much are you prepared to spend on higher education? Now that is an important question and I' m glad that the AUCC is putting the funding issue on the national agenda. But it cannot be the only question. The education community must also use its position to focus on copyright reform, open access, the use of technology for distance education, digital libraries, and countless other issues that strike at the heart of teaching and research at universities across the country. The failure to raise even one of these issues is embarrassing.
Posted by
Peter Suber at 12/16/2005 10:59:00 AM.
The open access movement:
Putting peer-reviewed scientific and scholarly literature
on the internet. Making it available free of charge and
free of most copyright and licensing restrictions.
Removing the barriers to serious research.
