March 23, 2007
We Can't Ignore the Influence of Digital Technologies
When I read the other day that the history department at Middlebury College had "banned Wikipedia," I immediately wrote to the college's president, Ronald D. Liebowitz, to express my concern that such a decision would lead to a national trend, one that would not be good for higher education. "Banning" has connotations of evil or heresy. Is Wikipedia really that bad?
I learned from Mr. Liebowitz that the news media had exaggerated the real story. The history department's policy that
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