Kenneth C.
Green, Ph.D.
Kenneth C.
Green is
the founder/director of The
Campus Computing Project, the largest
continuing study
of the role of information
technology in American colleges and universities. The project is
widely cited by both campus officials and corporate executives
as the definitive source for information about information technology
issues affecting American higher education. Green is also visiting
scholar at School of Educational Studies of The Claremont Graduate
University in Claremont, California.
Green is the
author/co-author or editor of a dozen books and published research
reports and more than three dozen articles that have appeared
in academic journals and professional publications. He is often
quoted on higher education, information technology, and labor market
issues in The New York Times, The Washington Post, The
Los Angeles Times, The Chronicle of Higher Education,
and other print and broadcast media. DIGITAL TWEED, Green's monthly
column on technology and
higher education issues, now appears in Syllabus Magazine.
He is also a regular contributor to The
Greentree Gazette.
Dr. Green is
an invited speaker at some two dozen academic conferences and
professional meetings each year. Additionally, he was the co-executive
producer and on-air host of the award-winning Ready2Net programs,
a series of satellite broadcasts and Webcasts focused on the challenges
and opportunities that information technology presents to American
higher education. He is also the co-creator
and co-host for a new broadcast/Webcast series, Ahead
of the Curve.
In October 2002, Green received the first EDUCAUSE
Award for Leadership in Public Policy and Practice. The award
cites his work in creating
The Campus Computing Project and recognizes his "prominence
in the arena of national and international technology agendas,
and the linking of higher education to those agendas."
In addition to his current work with The Campus Computing Project,
Green often serves as a consultant on campus planning, policy,
and technology issues. His corporate clients and project sponsors
in the information technology and publishing industries include
Apple Computer, BearingPoint, Blackboard, Campus Pipeline, Cisco
Systems, Dell Computer, DeVry University, eCollege, Gateway Computer,
Hewlett Packard, Houghton Mifflin, IBM, Jenzabar, Macromedia, Microsoft
Corp., Palm Computing, PeopleSoft, Pearson Education, SAP, SAS,
SCT Corp., Sun Microsystems, Thomson Learning, TouchNet, WebCT,
and XanEdu, among others.
A graduate of New College in Sarasota, Florida, Green completed
his master's degree at the Ohio State University and earned his
Ph.D. at the University of California, Los Angeles.
From 1989 to 1994, Green was a senior research associate (1989-1991)
and later director (1991-1994) of The James Irvine Foundation Center
for Scholarly Technology at the University of Southern California.
Prior to his affiliation with USC, Green held concurrent appointments
from 1983-1989 as the associate director of UCLA's Higher Education
Research Institute and as the associate director the American Council
on Education/UCLA Cooperative Institutional Research Program (CIRP),
the nation's largest and oldest empirical study of higher education.
