New Book: Harnessing America's Wasted Talent: A New Ecology of Learning
Please scroll down to your SCUP Link, below this notice about SCUP–45.
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 Link 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: - May 22–23, Ann Arbor, MI - Step I
- July 10, Minneapolis, MN - Step I (in conjunction with SCUP–45)
- October 2, Ann Arbor, MI - Step I
- January 21–22, Tempe, AZ - Step II and Step III
Labels: attainment, book, futuring, Peter B. Smith, Peter Smith, transformation
New Book, Reinventing Brantford: A University Comes Downtown
 Reinventing Brantford: A University Comes Downtown, is the story of a small North American town decaying and dying in the post-industrial revolution age, and how that downtown was reinvigorated by the creation of a downtown Brantford campus of Wilfred Leurier University. The introduction begins: On June 7, 2008, the City of Brantford celebrated the death of its downtown. The funeral featured brightly coloured carriages, bicycles, and costumes . . . [R]epresentatives of the city, a new university campus, the arts community, and downtown churches blessed, eulogized, and toasted the old downtown. In a daring move the health authorities had approved the toast featuring untreated water taken from the Grand River two blocks away . . . The funeral celebrated the death, but also the rebirth of downtown Brantford. If you purchase this book by following any link on this page, SCUP will receive a small percentage of your purchase price, which is not increased by doing so.
Regional SCUP Events! Enjoy the F2F company of your colleagues and peers at one of three SCUP regional conferences this spring: Labels: book, Brantford, campus heritage, Canada, N-C, new book, new urbanism, town and gown, Wilfrid Laurier University
New Book, Globalization's Muse: Universities and Higher Education Systems in a Changing World
Globalization's Muse (407 pp) is subtitled "Universities and Higher Education Systems in a Changing World." It is edited by John Aubrey Davis, C. Judson King, and Irwin Feller, and is the printed result of a series of events on the campus of the University of California, Berkeley that "focused on higher education refoorms throughout the world."
If you purchase this book by following any link on this page, SCUP will receive a small percentage of your purchase price, which is not increased by doing so.
Regional SCUP Events! Enjoy the F2F company of your colleagues and peers at one of three SCUP regional conferences this spring: Labels: book, global, higher education, International, new book, postsecondary education
New Book: Small College Guide to Financial Health: Weathering Turbulent Times
Now SCUPers can connect on Facebook and on LinkedIn.
NACUBO calls this new book "A book to counter choppy economic waters": "In NACUBO’s new book, Small College Guide to Financial Health: Weathering Turbulent Times, author Michael K. Townsley offers advice on remaining alert to the financial and strategic resources institutions need to withstand economic volatility. This excerpt explains the natural resilience of the basic business model for private institutions, while suggesting other options that may add value—including multinational initiatives and their benefits and risks . . . Leaders need to think through exactly what the college expects to do, how it will be done, what obstacles will be encountered, what the benefits and costs are, and what information is needed to prepare a due diligence report effectively. Some private institutions conceive that establishing a foreign campus is similar to finding the lost city of gold sought by the Spanish conquistadors."
Labels: book, book review, financial models, new book, recession, resource and budget planning
The Kindle Factor
An early Kindle adopter, who is also using the Kindle to save students text book money and integrating into his pedagogy, lays out some of the things he's learned, and some of the considerations those who want to move in that direction need to think about. "One of the benefits of the Kindle is that learners can replace expensive textbooks with digital books in a format read by the Kindle. For example, for a Knowledge Organizations course I will lead in the Fall, one hardcover textbook, Organizations as Knowledge Systems (2004, Tsoukas, H. & Mylonopoulos, Eds.) currently costs $89.95 at retail, $71.97 from Amazon.com, and $63.96 in its Kindle version. That’s a 28.9% savings over the retail cost of the book. Another textbook, Theory U (2009, Scharmer, C. O.), in paper, currently costs $28.95 at retail, $26.05 from Amazon, and $15.92 in its Kindle version. The sum of those savings would be $39.02, or a 32.9% savings over retail for both books."
Read the full article here: http://www.insidehighered.com/views/2009/06/15/crowellLabels: academic planning, book, digital book, it, Kindle, pedagogy
Planning Successful Museum Building Projects
The Hope of Audacity: Malcolm Gladwell
Malcolm Gladwell's got a new book out, Outliers. It's about nature/nurture, among other things, and you can read a review of it in Salon here. Okay, so this really doesn't have much to do with the stimulus package, but it's interesting. Some critics are being a little more aggressive about this book than they have been in the past. We know that when he's presented to SCUP audiences, he's been well received, so we thought we'd share this positive essay about Gladwell, by Rachel Toor, in Inside Higher Ed: Gladwell is also accused of being too entertaining. He takes creaky academic work and breathes Frankensteinian life into it. He weaves anecdotes together, creating a tapestry that builds to an argument that seems convincing. This, some reviewers have claimed, is like perpetuating fraud on the (non-academic) reading public: because Gladwell makes it so much fun to follow him on his intellectual journey, he’s going to convince people of things that aren’t provably, academically true. He will lull the hoi polloi into thinking they’re reading something serious.
Which is, of course, the most common complaint about Gladwell: He’s not serious enough. He’s having too much fun playing with his ideas. And, really, you can’t be Serious when you’re raking in so much coin. Anyone who gets paid four million bucks for a book that mines academic work — and not necessarily the stuff that is agreed to be Important — is going to become a target. His speaking fees are beyond the budgets of most colleges. In this way, his career is now similar to that of David Sedaris, who can command an impressive audience and still be dissed by the literary folks. Everyone who’s anyone knows that you can’t sell a lot of books and be a serious writer. Just ask Jonathan Franzen. Or Toni Morrison. Labels: book, Malcolm Gladwell, Outliers
Book Review: How: Why How We Do Anything Means Everything in Business
From the January–February–March 2009 issue of Planning for Higher Education, this "SCUP Links Blog" post provides an opportunity for you to share comments or additional resources/links about the review by John C. Adams of the book, Book Review: How: Why How We Do Anything Means Everything in Business. You can read the entire article here [LINK TO COME], in Planning for Higher Education. Labels: "How: Why How We Do Anything Means Everything in Business", book, book review, business case, ethics, goals, mission, strategy, transparency
Book Review: How College Affects Students
From the January–February–March 2009 issue of Planning for Higher Education, this "SCUP Links Blog" post provides an opportunity for you to share comments or additional resources/links about the review by Simone Himbeault Taylor of the book, How College Affects Students. You can read the entire article here [LINK TO COME], in Planning for Higher Education. Labels: book, book review, How College Affects Students, learning, student life, student services, students
Book Review: The Student Leadership Challenge
From the January–February–March 2009 issue of Planning for Higher Education, this "SCUP Links Blog" post provides an opportunity for you to share comments or additional resources/links about the review by SCUP office work-study student Clayton McPherson of the book, The Student Leadership Challenge. You can read the entire article here [LINK TO COME], in Planning for Higher Education. Labels: book, book review, leadership, learning, student leadership, student life
Book: The Age of American Unreason
Read this New York Times article about the book, The Age of American Unreason, but purchase it at Amazon.com through this link. (No extra charge to you, SCUP gets a 5 percent fee.) But now, Ms. Jacoby said, something different is happening: anti-intellectualism (the attitude that "too much learning can be a dangerous thing'" and anti-rationalism ("the idea that there is no such things as evidence or fact, just opinion") have fused in a particularly insidious way. Not only are citizens ignorant about essential scientific, civic and cultural knowledge, she said, but they also don't think it matters. Labels: book, global, International, learning
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