Cathleen Kennedy
Cathleen Kennedy
Professor, College of San Mateo,
1999 U.S. Community College Professor of the Year,
Cathleen
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York University
S764 Ross
Division of Social Science
4700 Keele Street
Toronto, Ontario M3JIP3
416-736-2100 x30126
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Author of "Digital Diploma Mills (parts I, II, III & IV, V & VI) a series of widely-discussed articles critical of the corporate connections of online education, historian David F. Noble has been writing about the social development of science and technology for two decades. His first book, America by Design: Science, Technology and the Rise of Corporate Capitalism (1977) traced the evolution of the institutions and ideology of modern science-based industry. His next book, Forces of Production: A Social History of Industrial Automation (1984), examined the development of one of the most important late twentieth century products of science-based industry, computer-based automation. As a scholar, Noble has sought to demonstrate how science and technology develop as products not only of accumulated knowledge and skills but also of social power and conflict.
In this regard he has also stepped out of the conventional academic role to become a social critic and activist. For fifteen years he has worked with rank and file groups in several industries in the struggle over new technology. In addition, in an effort to fight corporate control over universities and bring scientific and technological research more into line with the needs of working people, he co-founded, with Ralph Nader, the National Coalition for Universities in the Public Interest.
Noble is an academic who writes and acts not to please those in power but to support those who must fight power to survive. After teaching nine years at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Noble was fired in 1984 for his ideas and for his actions in support of them. He subsequently successfully sued M.I.T. to obtain and make public the documentary record of his political firing, on the basis of which the American Historical Association condemned M.I.T. for the firing.
Noble moved from M.I.T. to the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, where he became Curator of Industrial Automation and Labor. Inspired by many of the ideas and experiences described in his book Progress Without People: In Defense of Luddism (1993), Noble put together plans for an exhibit on the human costs of automation, entitled "Automation Madness." Besides a collection of historic machines illuminating social choice in machine design and an unusual assemblage of materials illustrating past and present struggles over technological change, the exhibit contained Enoch's Hammer, the only Luddite sledgehammer still in existence. It was used effectively by workers in central England in 1812 to postpone the introduction of machines that were killing or downgrading their jobs. The exhibit, which also included the movieland "Star Wars" robots R2D2 and C3PO, would have been the first of its kind anywhere, but it was too hot for the Smithsonian. Instead of presenting it to the public, the Smithsonian summarily fired Noble and sent the Luddite hammer back to England.
Noble has since emigrated to Canada. He is now professor of history at York University and lives, with his wife and three daughters, in Toronto. He continues to work with labor, in Canada and elsewhere, on issues relating to technology, and as an activist in coalitions fighting free trade and the multinational corporate agenda, and recently co-founded the Canadian Forum on Higher Education in the Public Interest.
[from: Progress Without People: In Defense of Luddism, by David F. Noble (Chicago: Charles H. Kerr Publishing Company, 1993), pp. 144-145]
Deputy Director Higher Education Department,
American Federation of Teachers
555 New Jersey Avenue NW
Washington, D.C. 20001-2079
202-879-1400
probinso@aft.org
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Perry Robinson is the Deputy Director of the Higher Education Department, American Federation of Teachers in Washington, D.C. He has served on the AFT staff since 1980. He earned a Ph.D.in English from the University of California-Berkeley and taught for several years at the University of North Carolina-Charlotte. Since 1995 he has been responsible for tracking information technology issues for the AFT higher education membership, helping design conferences on the subject, speaking on various topics including intellectual property, distance learning, and the major trends, as well as others. He has been invited to speak to the Canadian Association of University Teachers' council meeting on information technology, and to the recent national conventions of the Federation Quebecoise des Professeurs d'Universite in Quebec and the National Tertiary Education Union of Australia in Melbourne. He also has spoken on technology at meetings of the International Conference of University Teacher Organizations/ICUTO and prepared the advance briefing paper for Education International's higher education conference's session on "Information Technology, Distance Education, and Extraterratorial Providers" in Budapest.
His principal publication on the subject is Technology and Higher Education, 1996-97, an AFT publication containing extensive information on distance education contract issues. He also writes short columns on various digitally related topics for the Higher Education Department's "Leader." The last one was on "Smart Classrooms." One of his more current interests in the field is the World Trade Organization's activities with regard to the transnational movement of educational services (instruction).
Past President, Academic Senate for California
Community Colleges
910 K Street, Suite 300
Sacramento, CA 95814
916-445-4753
fax: 916-323-9867
bscrogg@ix.netcom.com
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Bill Scroggins was president of the Academic Senate for the 1997-98 and 1998-99 academic years and has been on the Executive Committee for seven years. Bill is well known for his expertise in curriculum, technology, and shared governance. A prolific writer, Bill has published dozens of papers and articles on these subjects, including "Seven Myths of Educational Technology or If You Want to Know How to Use Technology in Teaching, Ask a Teacher!" Among the recent accomplishments of the Academic Senate under Bill's leadership are the establishment of summer institutes on Technology in Teaching, Curriculum, and Student Leadership. The Senate has collaborated with the Community College League on new shared governance guidelines and with UC and CSU academic senates on articulation of major preparation requirements. The Senate has also been a major partner in formulating a host of state programs including CalWORKs, Partnership for Excellence, Information Competency, Workforce Preparation/Economic Development and a revision of Certificates requirements. Bill constructed and maintains the web site for the Academic Senate, www.academicsenate.cc.ca.us. He hold a B.S. from UCLA and a Ph.D. from UC Riverside, both in chemistry. His twenty-five years of teaching chemistry include full-time positions at four institutions, most recently Chabot College, during which he has written three chemistry books. Bill and his wife and two sons live in Huntington Beach.
President, Foundation for California Community
Colleges
1107 Ninth Street, Suite 660
Sacramento, CA 95814
916-325-4300
toy@foundationccc.org
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Dr. Larry Toy is President of the Foundation for
California Community Colleges. Prior to this he served as Director of
System Advancement and Resource Development for the Chancellor's
Office of the California Community Colleges. He spent 28 years as
Professor of Astronomy at Chabot College in Hayward, California. Dr.
Toy received his B.A. in astronomy from Harvard College and M.A. and
Ph.D. in astronomy from the University of California, Berkeley. He
was chosen as the first recipient of the Community College
Outstanding Faculty Award in 1989. Dr. Toy served as president of the
Faculty Association of California Community Colleges and the
Californians for Community Colleges. Dr. Toy was appointed to the
Board of Governors of the California Community Colleges for three
terms by Governors Deukmejian and Wilson, beginning in 1990 and
served as its president in 1994. Dr. Toy also served on the Design
Team for the California Virtual University and currently serves on
the California Virtual University Board of Directors. He is a member
of the boards of the Chabot Observatory and Science Center and the
California Council on Science and Technology.
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