The university as decision center

The “University as bridge between technology and society” fills the role of interpreter of technology and trainer of technology skills, independent of the university’s other role to acculturate students into a technologically sophisticated culture. But the “bridge” metaphor is a logical positivist view that only captures the end result of dynamic decision-making processes. As a bridge, the evidence indicates that the university decodes and repackages the language of technology to maintain, explore, or develop new technology, and to acculturate students with the technology of language to reflect its varied disciplines.