Administrators like technology, while faculty don't, says Gallup and "Inside Higher Ed"

https://www.insidehighered.com/news/survey/partial-credit-2015-survey-faculty-attitudes-technology?utm_source=Inside+Higher+Ed&utm_campaign=2bb9297680-DNU201510014&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_1fcbc04421-2bb9297680-198501157

Here's where you can get the full survey:
https://www.insidehighered.com/booklet/2015-survey-faculty-attitudes-technology 

No surprise here.  Technology threatens faculty's perceived centrality in the educational process.  Nearly 20 years ago a faculty union leader explained to me how the earliest European universities were started by faculty, who then hired administrators to do the grunt work for them.  This is a lovely fairy tale, if you are a faculty member.  But my own research later revealed that the University of Bologna, usually credited as Europe's first and the namesake of the Bologna Accords as a consequence, was in fact founded by students, who then went out and hired the faculty they wanted.

 Tenured faculty often act as if they are the shareholders of their institutions.  But in fact the taxpayers, we the public, are the central stakeholders of higher education.  For-profit corporations aside, universities either were created by taxpayer dollars, if public, or enabled by tax-free status, if private non-profit.  Once again, as with Bologna: student founded and student centered.

That being said, all that matters is that we the public are served by these institutions of higher learning... whether by face-to-face faculty encounters or by technology on line.

Clay Christiansen of Harvard's B-School argued a couple of years ago that his theory of innovation by disruption applies to higher ed and that the disrupter was online tech.  His "disruption" theory has been under attack of late.  See:
http://chronicle.com/article/The-Undoing-of-Disruption/233101
His prediction that half of all universities will be bankrupt in 15 years seems unlikely to come true.

Still, a revolution is in the wind in this, the Fifth Great Wave of American higher education.  And faculty will no longer enjoy the favored status they did during the previous half century.  No wonder many dislike technology.

Read more about the new wave here:
http://eds.a.ebscohost.com/eds/detail/detail?vid=1&sid=75caf7a7-2aaa-4038-b755-ec58e72d286c%40sessionmgr4001&hid=4211&bdata=JnNpdGU9ZWRzLWxpdmUmc2NvcGU9c2l0ZQ%3d%3d#AN=507789877&db=eft