Are new digital technologies compatible with the aims and traditions of “liberal education?” Or do instructional technologies pose an inexorable threat to higher education understood as anything more than vocational training? For Jo Ellen Parker, the answers to these much debated questions are yes and yes; it all depends on how the aims and traditions of “liberal education” are understood. Her thoughtful essay examines the wide range of sometimes-conflicting definitions of a liberal education, and how these different views also affect the perception of instructional technolgoy. She writes, “...the discussion of technology and liberal education is entwined in debates about broader educational priorities and value...Faculty and administrators who express concern about the impact of technology on liberal education are sometimes dismissed by technologists and CIOs as simply resisting change or failing in imagination. However, campus resistance to new technologies is often a matter of defending perceived threats to important educational...commitments. "