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  • Technology still costs money. Instead of an instructor with a chalkboard every classroom now has a computer and projector with ongoing costs associated with them. A 100 year old chalk board works just fine, but a 5 year old computer needs replaced. Every institution now has to have a web site and every student, faculty, and staff member has to have e-mail; every office has computers and printers; every building has wifi; every paper process now has a digital equivalent; and every one of those things have to have staff to support them. Technology gets very expensive very fast.

    Technology has increased the availability of and decreased the cost of gaining knowledge. Wikipedia is at our fingertips and youtube has scores of free, topic specific learning videos. Technology has not decreased the cost of running a University.