| Information literacy, as an education philosophy, has the capacity to respond to the teaching and learning complexities arising from our transition into an information society. The intelligent network—telecommunications and computing—will dominate how we learn, teach, and work together. With this in mind, public higher education has a rich historical legacy of access and equality of educational opportunity to uphold and a mandate to pioneer educational strategies that can accommodate the rapidity of technological change and its consequent impact on society.; Educating over 49% of those who attend higher education, public colleges and universities must assume a more dynamic leadership role during this societal transformation if New Majority students are to develop the intellectual skills required to compete effectively in today's marketplace. By adopting an information literacy culture, public higher education can foster the intellectual empowerment needed by New Majority students to evolve into competent life-long learners and contributors to American life and the world at large. |
