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Wednesday, April 28, 2010
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Tuesday, April 27, 2010
2010 SCUP Awards
Check it out! You don't want to miss higher education's premier planning conference, and your one chance this year to assemble with nearly 1,500 of your peers and colleagues: July 10–14, Minneapolis.
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SCUP is pleased to announce the society's 2010 award recipients. Additional information including photos, descriptions and subconsulting organizations are being prepared and will appear on our website in May. Be sure to attend the awards sessions at SCUP–45.
Recipients
SCUP Founders’ (Casey) Award for Distinguished Achievement in Higher Education Planning
Jeanne L. Narum, Founding Director PKAL; Director, The independent Colleges Office; Principal, PKAL Learning Spaces Collaboratory
SCUP Distinguished Service Award for Exceptional Contributions to the Activities and Success of SCUP
Nancy Tierney, Associate Dean, Planning & Facilities, University of Arizona College of Medicine, in partnership with Arizona State University
SCUP Award for Institutional Innovation and Integration
Vancouver Island University for the Nanaimo Campus Master Plan – Integrated Planning Process
SCUP Excellence in Planning
Honor Award to Haverford College for the Campus Master Plan, with Venturi, Scott Brown and Associates, Inc. – Planning for an Established Campus
Merit Award to Habib University Foundation, with Ahed Associates – Planning for a New Campus
Merit Award to Virginia Commonwealth University for VCU 2020: 2004 Master Plan Site, with BCWH Architects – Planning for an Established Campus
Merit Award to The University of Utah for the Campus Master Plan, with Skidmore, Owings & Merrill LLP – Planning for an Established Campus
Merit Award to Stanford University for The Science & Engineering Quad, with Boora Architects – Planning for a District or Campus Component
Merit Award to The Aga Khan University for The AKU Faculty of Arts and Sciences University Village Land Use Plan, with Goody Clancy – Planning for a District or Campus Component
SCUP Award for Landscape Architecture
Merit Award to Duke University for the West Campus Plaza, with Hargreaves Associates
SCUP/AIA-CAE Excellence in Architecture
Honor Award to The Julliard School for Expansion and Renovation, Diller Scofidio + Renfro in collaboration with FXFowle Architects – Architecture for a Building Addition
Honor Award to Bennington College for the Student Center, with Taylor & Burns Architects – Architecture for a New Building
Honor Award to The University of Michigan for The Museum of Art, with Allied Works Architecture – Architecture for a Building Addition
Merit Award to University of Iowa School of Art & Art History, with Steven Holl Architects – Architecture for a New Building
Merit Award to Simon Fraser University for The Arts and Social Sciences Complex, with Busby Perkins+Will – Architecture for a New Building
Merit Award to Roger Williams University for the North Campus Residence Hall, with Perkins+Will - Architecture for a New Building
Merit Award to Michigan State University for the Owen Graduate Center Refurbishment, with SmithGroup – Architecture for Renovation or Adaptive Reuse
Merit Award to San Francisco Conservatory of Music, with Perkins+Will – Architecture Renovation or Adaptive Reuse
Merit Award to Kenyon College for Peirce Hall, with Gund Partnership – Architecture for a Building Addition
Special Citation to Clark University for the Academic Commons at Goddard Library, with Perry Dean Rogers | Partners Architects – Architecture for Renovation or Adaptive Reuse
Special Citation to The Ohio State University for The William Oxley Thompson Memorial Library, with Gund Partnership – Architecture for Renovation or Adaptive Reuse
Jeanne L. Narum, Founding Director PKAL; Director, The independent Colleges Office; Principal, PKAL Learning Spaces Collaboratory
SCUP Distinguished Service Award for Exceptional Contributions to the Activities and Success of SCUP
Nancy Tierney, Associate Dean, Planning & Facilities, University of Arizona College of Medicine, in partnership with Arizona State University
SCUP Award for Institutional Innovation and Integration
Vancouver Island University for the Nanaimo Campus Master Plan – Integrated Planning Process
SCUP Excellence in Planning
Honor Award to Haverford College for the Campus Master Plan, with Venturi, Scott Brown and Associates, Inc. – Planning for an Established Campus
Merit Award to Habib University Foundation, with Ahed Associates – Planning for a New Campus
Merit Award to Virginia Commonwealth University for VCU 2020: 2004 Master Plan Site, with BCWH Architects – Planning for an Established Campus
Merit Award to The University of Utah for the Campus Master Plan, with Skidmore, Owings & Merrill LLP – Planning for an Established Campus
Merit Award to Stanford University for The Science & Engineering Quad, with Boora Architects – Planning for a District or Campus Component
Merit Award to The Aga Khan University for The AKU Faculty of Arts and Sciences University Village Land Use Plan, with Goody Clancy – Planning for a District or Campus Component
SCUP Award for Landscape Architecture
Merit Award to Duke University for the West Campus Plaza, with Hargreaves Associates
SCUP/AIA-CAE Excellence in Architecture
Honor Award to The Julliard School for Expansion and Renovation, Diller Scofidio + Renfro in collaboration with FXFowle Architects – Architecture for a Building Addition
Honor Award to Bennington College for the Student Center, with Taylor & Burns Architects – Architecture for a New Building
Honor Award to The University of Michigan for The Museum of Art, with Allied Works Architecture – Architecture for a Building Addition
Merit Award to University of Iowa School of Art & Art History, with Steven Holl Architects – Architecture for a New Building
Merit Award to Simon Fraser University for The Arts and Social Sciences Complex, with Busby Perkins+Will – Architecture for a New Building
Merit Award to Roger Williams University for the North Campus Residence Hall, with Perkins+Will - Architecture for a New Building
Merit Award to Michigan State University for the Owen Graduate Center Refurbishment, with SmithGroup – Architecture for Renovation or Adaptive Reuse
Merit Award to San Francisco Conservatory of Music, with Perkins+Will – Architecture Renovation or Adaptive Reuse
Merit Award to Kenyon College for Peirce Hall, with Gund Partnership – Architecture for a Building Addition
Special Citation to Clark University for the Academic Commons at Goddard Library, with Perry Dean Rogers | Partners Architects – Architecture for Renovation or Adaptive Reuse
Special Citation to The Ohio State University for The William Oxley Thompson Memorial Library, with Gund Partnership – Architecture for Renovation or Adaptive Reuse
Read more about SCUP's awards and view awards archives here.
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Labels: 2010, academic leadership, awards, best practices, casey award, distinguished service award, Founders Award, SCUP Awards
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Monday, April 26, 2010
Scholars, Scholarship, and the Scholarly Enterprise in the Digital Age
Register for SCUP–45 by Friday, April 30, to save $$. You won't be getting a printed SCUP–45 Preliminary Program in the mail this year. Instead, SCUP is going green and regularly updating this digital version (PDF), which you can download at any time.
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The following SCUP Link, in our opinion, may be the best-ever piece from Richard Katz. We are challenged to describe its scope, so what follows is a little longer than the usual SCUP Link. If you read Kamenetz' book, Norris' review of it - which places it squarely in the context of the 15-year discussion of "transforming" higher education that began for SCUPers with the publication by SCUP of Dolence & Norris' Transforming Higher Education: A Vision for Learning in the 21st Century in 1995 - and then peruse Katz' "Scholars, Scholarship, and the Scholarly Enterprise in the Digital Age," (described below) then you are likely to be left with a sense of wonder at where we are.
And, where else in your life will you get a chance this year to discuss these ideas and concept - in hallways, elevators, session rooms, receptions, campus tours, and the like? At SCUP-45, of course, with nearly 1,500 of your peers and colleagues from around North American at the world at higher education's premier planning conference.
In this seminal article from Richard Katz, EDUCAUSE Vice President and Director of the EDUCAUSE Center for App[lied Research (ECAR), Katz argues that higher education may be in a second phase of "transformation" (not his word). He posits that for the past half a century, higher education has used information technology tools as instruments of perception, progress, and implementation. Now, he says:
More recently, I would suggest, we have entered a more problematic, second phase. This is a phase that often follows an innovative shock or disturbance. In such a phase, some people cease to use the innovation as a tool in support of historically defined approaches and begin to reconsider the approaches themselves. In this phase, the inexorable logic of the disruptive innovation becomes too compelling for some to resist. Social conventions begin to crack, groan, and give way, and established institutions — held together by earlier technology, social convention, and history — stake out a niche, or evolve, or die. During the Industrial Revolution, this was the phase when the vertical logic of factories powered by wind or water gave way to horizontal manufacturing methods made possible by the introduction of the steam engine. It was the phase when scribes and scriptorium monks were supplemented and ultimately marginalized and replaced by printing presses — an innovation that had the unintended consequences of spreading literacy in the West and liberating European learning from the Catholic Church. In this second phase, technologies cease being instruments that extend the virtues of the current order and instead become the harbingers and engines of a new order. During these times, our glass is particularly dark because, as Marshall McLuhan once observed, the past is dissolved before the future resolves.
What is unique in this essay is its entry point to the discussion: Scholars, Scholarship, and the Scholarly Enterprise." Katz gets around to discussion everything you might expect but he does so through the lens of scholarship. For example, if life as a scholar really is so much better now than it was when we were in graduate school, as described below, how unfortunate to have missed it:
Perhaps the greatest boon provided to scholars and scholarship by digital technologies is the last: the propensity of networked people and scholarly resources to negate the "busy-ness" of scholarship. The Internet has freed the scholar from much of the tyranny and expense of finding, acquiring, sorting, verifying, annotating, collating, validating, and classifying information. Before the Internet, fledgling historians, for example, spent considerably less time in the thrall of disputation with mentors and fellow students than they did in the tasks of looking endlessly through search aids, waiting for the machinery of interlibrary exchanges of materials to issue forth, acquiring bona fides and letters of introduction to outside scholars, archivists, and other authorities, and awaiting permissions or refusals to gain access to collections. Only after collections were identified, grants were banked, bona fides were accepted, and travel visas were issued did the apprentice scholar earn the right to delight in finally gaining access to rolls of nearly unreadable microfilm. The tools of search only twenty years ago included a flashlight, and datasets were filed carefully in shoeboxes. Although there may be something to be said for the "slow roasting" required to perfect future scholars, this pre-Internet busy-ness likely detracted from the quality and/or quantity of the discovery undertaken, experienced, or realized, and it likely diminished the capacity of past graduate students and accredited scholars to put isolated facts into perspective (i.e., to engage in the scholarship of integration).
In the context of books like DIY U, the consideration that "higher education" and "higher education institutions" are not necessarily the same thing could cause a sense of unmooring:
Despite Kerr's observation, noted earlier, that higher education is "ever more central" to society, it is not clear that colleges and universities themselves occupy central positions. The Oxford University debate over contract mandates on classroom attendance by students (see below) constitutes just one piece of evidence of how the Internet is empowering individuals at the expense of institutions.14 Today expertise, moral authority, and opinion are just a click away. Scholars are no longer bound to an institution, and some have come to view the institution as merely a platform for the promotion of their global, multi-institutional academic goals and reputation building. When Boyer described the erosion of the campus community and the increasing isolation of the campus from its local community, the year was 1990, before the widespread adoption of the Internet. Since that time, U.S. society has witnessed the emergence of hyper-partisanship and other forms of academic and social fragmentation alongside the breathtaking creation of virtual organizations that are nearly always global in makeup.
Many on the scholarly side shudder at marketing terms like "branding," yet Katz' look at higher education from the scholarly lens suggests that for individual higher education institutions to survive, branding is essential:
For higher education institutions to succeed in the Digital Age, their leaders must devise and communicate a value proposition whose accent is on the institution. To accomplish this, leaders must recognize that branding will be essential. Brands are metaphors that convey the essence of the student experience that is being promised. Some metaphors may accent Digital Age values such as openness, convenience, and comprehensiveness. Other metaphors may connote older values such as tradition, ivory towers, and personalized instruction. Whatever metaphor is chosen, institutional leaders must remember that even traditional values are not necessarily place-bound. If place is to remain central to an institution's competitive position, then that institution's investments and its messages must convey how place factors into the student experience. Institutions that do not or cannot compete on the quality or nature of their physical facilities must develop a different set of metaphors and messages and must learn to use the technologies of the Digital Age to extend their academic communities. Even though many of us associate significant learning experiences with traditional campus physical environments, information technology will allow others to create virtual environments that will emulate — and even surpass — these physical environments of the past.
Katz concludes by describing possible topography changes in higher education and learning and once more makes the point that our institutions may not survive, although he hopes they might prosper:
There is more, much more, to be done to secure the place of the traditional scholarly enterprise in the Digital Age. Some have said that the Internet is the most fundamental change since the invention of writing or since the invention of movable type by Gutenberg. As we participate in the breathtaking progress of science, medicine, and the arts and letters and as we watch the demise of centuries-old industries such as newspapers, I am convinced that some of the great expectations being heaped on the Digital Age are not hyperbolic. What is certain is that computing and communications technologies have empowered the individual and are unleashing a torrent of change. This torrent will reshape nearly all of our institutions, including colleges and universities. Equally certain is that unless we plan for the changes that we can reasonably forecast, the changes ahead will be accidental ones. Perhaps we will be left with waterfront property after the torrent passes through. Perhaps our campuses will have creeks meandering through them. Or perhaps the products of hundreds of years will be swept away completely, leaving institutions that are ill equipped for the competitive demands of the Digital Age.We are the "lucky" ones: as our old world dissolves, at least we can participate in resolving the new one. If we can once again create a galvanizing metaphor, a general educational philosophy, a set of carefully constructed and widely accepted academic standards, a consensus on the nature of our footprint, a supporting and flexible delivery system, and a portfolio of global partners, then higher education and its institutions will prosper in the Digital Age"
We ARE the lucky ones, as we get to continue this discussion in Minneapolis. See you there!
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Labels: change, environmental scanning, futuring, institutional direction planning, transformation, trends
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Monday, April 19, 2010
Is the Financial Crisis Enough to Spur Real Transformation?
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This is a topical area we will return to soon, in "SCUP Email News" and on the SCUP Links Blog. Meanwhile, writing in Business Officer Margo Vanover Porter has spoken with some higher education leaders who think that the recession just might be creating a slippery slope to change. [T]the faltering economy has forced higher education to undergo a significant evolutionary shift, with numerous pockets of campus innovation and experimentation emerging. “The financial jolt of the credit crunch and recession, along with anticipated dramatic shifts in student demographics, is accelerating the pace at which institutions are exploring new financial and educational delivery models,” he says. “In the past year, we have seen a jump in three-year bachelor's degree programs, so-called no-frills satellite campuses, and academic partnerships between four-year private colleges and local community colleges. These efforts are being watched very closely by presidents and trustees across the nation" . . . Martin Van Der Werf, former director, Chronicle Research Services, Washington, D.C., agrees that the way in which education is delivered, what students learn, and how students experience college are all shifting. But, he believes the changes are too broad and too fundamental to attribute to current economic conditions . . . “There is a rethinking of the way education is being delivered,” he says, “but I don't know if the financial crisis could be isolated as a single factor producing these changes. The financial crisis is encouraging students and families to question what they were already questioning, such as the delivery model, the cost of college, and the difficulty in obtaining a degree. The recession is merely accentuating what people were already thinking.”
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Labels: change, financial crisis, recession, transformation
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What Lags Well Behind Recovery to Full Employment? State Funding for Higher Ed!
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SCUP's Board of Directors met in Ann Arbor last weekend. The meeting kicked off with a presentation by Dennis Jones (of NCHEMS) highlighting the very serious financial position higher education institutions are in, especially public institutions. As Jones put it, we all know that unemployment is a lagging indicator. And collection of state sales taxes lags unemployment recovery. Plus, funding from the state for higher education lags increased state revenues and is simultaneously fighting with other state entities for a share of that budget. Mix into that, that financial-institution-based recessions are the slowest to recover, and the picture for higher ed indicates a slow recovery, and maybe never a full recovery in terms of state funding. As The Chronicle of Higher Education reports, it seems as though Standard & Poors agrees.
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Labels: financial crisis, recession, recovery, state support
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Sunday, April 18, 2010
California's University System: What Went Wrong?
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This look at what has happened to higher education in California since Clark Kerr's original Master Plan for Higher Education is definitely of interest to SCUPers. The author, Lisa M. Krieger, of Mercury News, lists the following as among the most critical factors during that time:
- Plummeting state support;
- No huaranteed funding;
- Continued expansion; and
- Little coordination.Fifty years ago this month, California promised a low-cost, high-quality university education for every qualified high school graduate in the state. But that promise — inflated by growing populations and academic aspirations — expanded beyond the state's willingness to pay for it. What went wrong? How did the university system that was long the envy of the world suddenly become the focus of angry street protests, overcrowded classrooms, soaring tuition and a monumental debate over whether the state can ever make good again on its groundbreaking mission?
While the recession turned a slow-brewing problem into an instant crisis, a Mercury News analysis of California's higher-education mess reveals that many factors drove the inevitable and ugly collision between the university system's ambitious and uncoordinated growth and the state's declining ability and desire to pay for it.
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Labels: California State System, capital funding, financial crisis resource and budget planning, institutional planning, integrated planning, university system
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Friday, April 16, 2010
SCUPer Projects in New England Featured in Monthly High-Profile
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The April 2010 issue of Monthly High-Profile features SCUP and projects planned and designed by many SCUPers. You can either view an online version or download a PDF here. High-Profile Monthly is a facility development trade publication, featuring construction activities in New England. The SCUP section runs from page 20 through page 25. Projects noted include the Meckert-Tracy Science Building at Stonehill College; renovations at Marblehead's Village School; a green student housing project, Mara Village, at Fitchburg State College; the American University for Medical Studies in Kuwait; and science and engineering facilities at Trinity University.
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Labels: architecture, construction, facilities planning
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Edupunks, Edupreneurs and the Coming Transformation of Higher Education: Reviewed by Donald M. Norris
Fifteen years ago SCUP published the best-seller, Transforming Higher Education: A Vision for Learning in the 21st Century by Michael Dolence and Donald M. Norris. So, where else for SCUP's journal, Planning for Higher Education, to turn for a review of this new book about "Transformation of Higher Education" than to one of those authors, Donald M. Norris, who is also a recipient of SCUP's Distinguished Service Award. Norris' review places Kamenetz' book in the context of nearly two decades of thinking and analyzing the effects of information technology on higher learning:
Ms. Kamenetz’s latest book, DIY U: Edupunks, Edupreneurs, and the Coming Transformation of Higher Education sets an even higher goal. Its purpose is to inspire people to think seriously about changing profoundly our approach to postsecondary education, personal learning, and employment. The American model for universal higher education is acclaimed around the world. It has even becomes a sort of “cargo cult” for developing countries. But the author finds our current version to be too expensive, too complex, and too bundled. Moreover, American higher education is based on physical campuses that have been participating in a form of competitive arms race of campus amenities, expanded services, and proliferating administrative functions and staffs.In conclusion, this is a provocative, important book. It frames these important issues in a direct, journalistic style that is sure to attract a wider audience than insiders’ books on the subject. Ms. Kamenetz will surely be tempted soon to write the sequel (perhaps “Fixing DIY Disasters: How US Graduates Got Their Groove Back”?), either looking back from the future or looking to the future, maybe influenced by higher education futurists such as Paul Lefrere (9) and their projects on DIY universities for global audiences (like www.role-project.eu). Either way, I anticipate that she will be able to report on lots of failed experiments in the sustainability of free-to-consume courses, whether self-assembled (DIY) or not, and she will find a smaller but respectable number of viable, sustainable, fully transformed instances of higher learning, which deliver the success that the US needs and that enable learners to live their dreams, within their means. Meanwhile, the US continues to need globally-elite levels of excellence and innovation, sufficient to generate the surplus wealth that we need to invest in our futures. If Ms. Kamenetz’s readers can take us past the free-trumps-fee game of today, to the more thoughtful and globally-aware debates that can accompany the choices that people make in DIY learning, that will be all to the good.
Labels: change, DIY U, environmental scanning, futuring, information technology, Kamenetz, learning, Norris, transformation
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Thursday, April 15, 2010
Proceedings of the Fourth Annual Best Practices Conference of International Town & Gown Associations (ITGA)
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The ITGA has graciously published the presentations of its 2009 speakers. The sessions are available on the ITGA website here. A sampling of the sessions includes: "Campus Community Relations Committee," University of Arizona, Tucson; "Joint City University Advisory Board," Clemson University and Clemson, SC; "Transfer of Wealth - RUPRI Center for Rural Entrepreneurship"; and, of course, "Noise in Neighborhoods," Texas State University and San Marcos, TX.
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The ITGA has graciously published the presentations of its 2009 speakers. The sessions are available on the ITGA website here. A sampling of the sessions includes: "Campus Community Relations Committee," University of Arizona, Tucson; "Joint City University Advisory Board," Clemson University and Clemson, SC; "Transfer of Wealth - RUPRI Center for Rural Entrepreneurship"; and, of course, "Noise in Neighborhoods," Texas State University and San Marcos, TX.
The ITGA's Fifth Annual Best Practices Conference is June 1-3 at Iowa State University, Ames, IA.
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Labels: community relations, town and gown
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Wednesday, April 14, 2010
Do Community Colleges Need to be More Global?
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Lots of community college news this week, as the annual gathering of the American Association of Community Colleges(AACC) takes place in Seattle. Note that The Chronicle of Higher Education is doing large-scale reporting from the conference, although most of the reports require subscription or a pass.
One area of special interest is the issue of whether or not community colleges are doing enough for their students, to prepare them for the global marketplace. David Molz of Inside Higher Ed reviews some of what he learned in this area. As well, this slide show by Natalie J. Harder of Patrick Henry Community College (VA) displays the results of a large survey she conducted about community college internationalization efforts. From Molz's report:
A 2006 American Council on Education survey on internationalization in higher education – examining whether institutions offered programs like study abroad or courses with a global focus and other variables – gave community colleges a low score of 0.68 on a 4.0 scale. Harder discovered that when the individual institutions are broken out, rural community colleges fare considerably worse than suburban and urban community colleges. She also found that institutional support from the administration, in terms of both dollars and decision making, was the largest predictor of internationalization of the curriculum.
Harder has been slow to win support for her ideas on her own campus. She explained that faculty and some administrators cannot always see the benefit of making such changes.
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Labels: AACC, community colleges, global, International
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Monday, April 12, 2010
New Book: Harnessing America's Wasted Talent: A New Ecology of Learning
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Check it out! You don't want to miss higher education's premier planning conference, and your one chance this year to assemble with nearly 1,500 of your peers and colleagues: July 10–14, Minneapolis.
SCUP's Planning Institute: Enjoy the F2F company of your colleagues and peers while you engage in one of the three SCUP Planning Institute Steps. In addition to being offered on demand, on campuses to teams of campus leaders, the institute steps are also offered to all professionals at varying times and venues. Currently scheduled are:
Check it out! You don't want to miss higher education's premier planning conference, and your one chance this year to assemble with nearly 1,500 of your peers and colleagues: July 10–14, Minneapolis.
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Peter P. Smith is Senior Vice President of Academic Strategies and Development, Kaplan Higher Education. On Monday, July 12 he will speak at SCUP–45 on "The New Ecology of Learning in the 21st Century." Smith's most recent book is Harnessing America's Wasted Talent: A New Ecology of Learning. From a review of that book:
President Obama offered America and the world renewed hope for a better tomorrow. With decades of experience in alternative forms of higher education, Peter Smith grabs that optimistic spirit and seizes the moment to reveal to us the exciting age of Web-based teaching and learning, which is opening access to untold numbers of learners while harnessing the previously wasted talents of millions of people in America and billions around the world. Those seeking insights, a vision of the future, and a chance to join this educational revolution should look forward to Harnessing America's Wasted Talent." —Curtis J. Bonk, professor, Indiana University, and author, The World Is Open: How Web Technology Is Revolutionizing Education
SCUP's Planning Institute: Enjoy the F2F company of your colleagues and peers while you engage in one of the three SCUP Planning Institute Steps. In addition to being offered on demand, on campuses to teams of campus leaders, the institute steps are also offered to all professionals at varying times and venues. Currently scheduled are:
Labels: attainment, book, futuring, Peter B. Smith, Peter Smith, transformation
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Campus Cuts: A New and Timely Blog from The Chronicle of Higher Education
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Oh, no! You won't be getting a printed SCUP–45 Preliminary Program in the mail this year. Instead, SCUP is going green and regularly updating this digital version (PDF), which you can download at any time.
Check it out! You don't want to miss higher education's premier planning conference, and your one chance this year to assemble with nearly 1,500 of your peers and colleagues: July 10–14, Minneapolis.
SCUP's Planning Institute: Enjoy the F2F company of your colleagues and peers while you engage in one of the three SCUP Planning Institute Steps. In addition to being offered on demand, on campuses to teams of campus leaders, the institute steps are also offered to all professionals at varying times and venues. Currently scheduled are:
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A new blog to pay attention to at The Chronicle of Higher Education, especially for SCUPers in resource and budget planning areas: Campus Cuts is its name. Recent posts include items on how the University of Houston plans cuts in "office supplies, travel, and cellphone allowances, as well as a one-day systemwide furlough, a hiring freeze, and deferred maintenance"; the University of California Santa Cruz cuts its community-studies major, possibly closing it; Tennessee Tech University eliminating "two teams -- rifle and women's tennis -- as part of a university plan to reduce financial support to athletics by up to $365,000"; University of Texas System laying off "23 employees of UT TeleCampus, its central distance-education arm, which is being shut down"; and Stony Brook University "[w]ill close close residence halls, eliminate some programs, and suspend new freshman admissions at its recently acquired Southampton campus, which is focused on sustainability curricula."
SCUP's Planning Institute: Enjoy the F2F company of your colleagues and peers while you engage in one of the three SCUP Planning Institute Steps. In addition to being offered on demand, on campuses to teams of campus leaders, the institute steps are also offered to all professionals at varying times and venues. Currently scheduled are:
Labels: budget cuts, campus cuts, financial crisis, resource and budget planning
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Darden Business School Rediscovers Its Right Brain
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Check it out! You don't want to miss higher education's premier planning conference, and your one chance this year to assemble with nearly 1,500 of your peers and colleagues: July 10–14, Minneapolis.
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Darden finds a solution to teaching innovation and creativity by studying the programs in graphic arts and design schools, and schools of architecture. From Today's Campus:
Design, story, leadership, symphony, play and meaning predominate. Pink says these qualities are the new business literacy, and the MFA is the new MBA . . . Darden chose not to change a reworked MBA to an MFA, but to complement the de rigueur of accounting, finance, labor law and management with a team-based, collaborative search for creativity . . . That makes sense at a university founded by an extraordinary man who – as a horticulturist, philosopher, politician, farmer, architect, archaeologist, paleontologist, inventor, writer and U.S. president – used both sides of his brain quite well.
SCUP's Planning Institute: Enjoy the F2F company of your colleagues and peers while you engage in one of the three SCUP Planning Institute Steps. In addition to being offered on demand, on campuses to teams of campus leaders, the institute steps are also offered to all professionals at varying times and venues. Currently scheduled are:
Labels: academic planning, business schools, creativity, curriculum, Darden, innovation
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Outsourcing, Insourcing–and Everything in Between
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Oh, no! You won't be getting a printed SCUP–45 Preliminary Program in the mail this year. Instead, SCUP is going green and regularly updating this digital version (PDF), which you can download at any time.
Check it out! You don't want to miss higher education's premier planning conference, and your one chance this year to assemble with nearly 1,500 of your peers and colleagues: July 10–14, Minneapolis.
SCUP's Planning Institute: Enjoy the F2F company of your colleagues and peers while you engage in one of the three SCUP Planning Institute Steps. In addition to being offered on demand, on campuses to teams of campus leaders, the institute steps are also offered to all professionals at varying times and venues. Currently scheduled are:
Check it out! You don't want to miss higher education's premier planning conference, and your one chance this year to assemble with nearly 1,500 of your peers and colleagues: July 10–14, Minneapolis.
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Can we keep up with the demands of Millennials? Is a broader variety of outsourcing part of the answer? From University Business:
Today, nine out of 10 colleges are outsourcing a broad variety of non-academic functions including recruitment, admissions, financial aid, and, impressively, creating virtual communities of distance learners connected through laptops, PDAs, and, increasingly, mobile communication devices. These same students have increasingly accessed distributed student services for three simple reasons–convenience, timeliness, and interactive communication–read as engagement.
Though it may seem counter-intuitive for our generation, these millennial students find satisfaction in instantaneous recognition, feedback, and advisement. Unlike their older brothers and sisters, these students are seemingly intolerant of commuting, parking, and waiting in line for class registration. Instead, they want a virtual, convenient one-stop admissions, enrollment, and student support experience, delivered through the wonders of digital connections with the campus of their choice.
SCUP's Planning Institute: Enjoy the F2F company of your colleagues and peers while you engage in one of the three SCUP Planning Institute Steps. In addition to being offered on demand, on campuses to teams of campus leaders, the institute steps are also offered to all professionals at varying times and venues. Currently scheduled are:
Labels: academic planning, cooperative purchasingt, Millennials, outsourcing, procurement, resource and budget planning
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Sunday, April 11, 2010
The Role of Disruptive Technology in the Future of Higher Education
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Oh, no! You won't be getting a printed SCUP–45 Preliminary Program in the mail this year. Instead, SCUP is going green and regularly updating this digital version (PDF), which you can download at any time.
Check it out! You don't want to miss higher education's premier planning conference, and your one chance this year to assemble with nearly 1,500 of your peers and colleagues: July 10–14, Minneapolis.
SCUP's Planning Institute: Enjoy the F2F company of your colleagues and peers while you engage in one of the three SCUP Planning Institute Steps. In addition to being offered on demand, on campuses to teams of campus leaders, the institute steps are also offered to all professionals at varying times and venues. Currently scheduled are:
Check it out! You don't want to miss higher education's premier planning conference, and your one chance this year to assemble with nearly 1,500 of your peers and colleagues: July 10–14, Minneapolis.
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A particularly interesting read if you need a brush-up on your understanding of the impact of disruptive technologies, although this article from EDUCAUSE Quarterly by Katrina A. Meyer is focused on online learning.
So what does the theory of disruption — and the tools that disrupt existing models of teaching and learning — mean for the future of higher education? First, we will hear new software or tools labeled “disruptive technologies” as frequently as we do now. It is guaranteed that the future will see more disruptive technologies, since we seem to like the idea and find it in many forms. Second, simple faith in disruption is faith poorly placed. No tool, on its own, is likely to produce disruption. Disruption takes upsetting the status quo, focusing on student-centered learning, changing relationships, sharpening our insight, and designing instruction to increase learning and lower costs. Third, some tools will and some won’t be truly disruptive. Those that are will probably force a pause in our usual thinking, a reassessment of past procedures, a letting go of past assumptions, and an introduction of a new perspective that opens a new way for doing our work. Truly innovative disruption prompted by technology in higher education will force us to think in new ways, providing opportunities for the changes needed for higher education to survive and thrive.
SCUP's Planning Institute: Enjoy the F2F company of your colleagues and peers while you engage in one of the three SCUP Planning Institute Steps. In addition to being offered on demand, on campuses to teams of campus leaders, the institute steps are also offered to all professionals at varying times and venues. Currently scheduled are:
Labels: change, disruptive technology, environmental scanning, futuring, online learning, transformation
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