President to President:
Views on Technology in Higher Education - Volume II
Chapter 10:
Using Technology to Further a Culture of Innovation
Written by: Esther L. Barazzone, President, Chatham University
Summary: Chatham University has evolved from an historic women's liberal arts residential college of 500 undergraduate students to a coeducational master's university with nearly 2,300 students in three colleges. This chapter shares the experience of growing in "Chatham Time" while remaining committed to the smallness, intimacy and lack of bureaucracy that helped foster its culture of innovation. Technology plays a key role in helping to strike the right balance with the "face" time necessary for the continued trust that must undergird team-based innovation across a distance, and the ongoing communication and collaboration of the digital campus.
