“. . . It’s Just Not Very Evenly Distributed”

These examples point to the good news. Yet even with the explosion of collaboration successes, there continue to be failures and missed opportunities. And that’s the bad news. Sometimes it’s the tragic news. On April 16, 2007, a mentally unbalanced Virginia Tech student named Seung-Hui Cho killed thirty-two students and faculty before taking his own life. The Virginia Tech Review Panel spent months studying the incident and found that many professors at Tech realized that Cho was in serious trouble and spoke up to senior school officials, yet little was done to deal with his needs and his threat. As the panel concluded: “During Cho’s junior year at Virginia Tech, numerous incidents occurred that ...

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