With technological advances occurring on a regular basis, the need for funding for such advances is needed, especially for the young bright minds who will, one day, make even further advances. But for those who are no so "tech savvy" and are in need of technological assistance may not be able to receive such necessary assistance. Although technology advances regularly, students are unable to receive technological resources and support with the ever-advancing technology.
As technology continues to grow, both public and private schools are slowly falling behind in keeping up. According to Steve Kolowich in his article, "I get the sense that the IT department is kind of like the library: In down times, we won’t order as many books, in down times we can cut back. And it just doesn’t work, because there’s a cumulative hit on the infrastructure, there’s a cumulative hit on resources." As Kolowich says, technology is "cumulative" and, therefore, cutting back on the development of such "cumulative" advances would be frowned upon. In the end, schools would have to catch up and thus, spend just as much money, or even more, to get up to speed.
With technological advances, comes the choice of whether to continue adapting college databases and systems with the advances. Unfortunately, with the troubling economical situation, such decisions are rather difficult to make. In the near future, hopefully institutions would not fall behind as far as they have now in the technological advancement of the current age.
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