AACU Closing - Ed Ayers - January 23, 2010
Saturday closing - last session
David Huxelbe from Pomona College is the new AACU President - uncommonly gracious.
Ed Ayers - Univ of Richmond President - American Studies
Digital materials - eLincoln bridge for digital. for the commonwealth
Old: school is preparation for the real world - suppress/depress stimuli.
Now: school is the world.
2/3 of learning not in real class.
Fun- unregulated experience, transgressive experience.
experience - solidarity of how you feel.
Classroom = book, discussion - not looked at as experience. When, in fact this may gender more thought. A video or concert may diminish your experience of a rock song.
Is a lecture an experience?
IT'S ALL THE EXPERIENCE
He learned from professor: actual wine, with actual moderation, can actually be fun.
Humanities are not in trouble in major, elite universities. We only question them in public universities.
Most elite can major in humanities because they will go on to grad school. The know a 3.8 in History is worth more than a 2.6 in accounting.
We must have professions and liberal arts discussions earlier.
Efficiency, class size, take out humanities and degrade class experience.
Classroom, lab vs. experiences.
After being abroad, his students are asked: How do you see America differently now?
Protect/create - depth/breadth/transformation
Salable skills w/ purpose.
All races, colors, religions, genders come together at college to find out who they are, who they might be.
People in the middle engender change, ask: what are we enhancing.
ALL COLLEGE IS GOOD.
Action: ask what can we do in academics to give your students a better experience?
Action: ask what can you do for academics to help students have a better experience?
Can't afford to waste any part of education.
If people pay $50k for a 8:1 student/teacher ratio, shouldn't we give that to first generation college attendees ... the ones at risk.
Celebrate the classroom.
Re: grad school - it really narrows your focus while you're there, then you go back out to the world. Before tenure: they channel and stifle you, constraints are self-imposed by groupthink.
Classes are more valued if you withhold them, so GEs are first and often used as a hurdle to go through before you get to do what you want. What is wrong with Seniors in writing, or studying Shakespeare.
David Huxelbe from Pomona College is the new AACU President - uncommonly gracious.
Ed Ayers - Univ of Richmond President - American Studies
Digital materials - eLincoln bridge for digital. for the commonwealth
Old: school is preparation for the real world - suppress/depress stimuli.
Now: school is the world.
2/3 of learning not in real class.
Fun- unregulated experience, transgressive experience.
experience - solidarity of how you feel.
Classroom = book, discussion - not looked at as experience. When, in fact this may gender more thought. A video or concert may diminish your experience of a rock song.
Is a lecture an experience?
IT'S ALL THE EXPERIENCE
He learned from professor: actual wine, with actual moderation, can actually be fun.
Humanities are not in trouble in major, elite universities. We only question them in public universities.
Most elite can major in humanities because they will go on to grad school. The know a 3.8 in History is worth more than a 2.6 in accounting.
We must have professions and liberal arts discussions earlier.
Efficiency, class size, take out humanities and degrade class experience.
Classroom, lab vs. experiences.
After being abroad, his students are asked: How do you see America differently now?
Protect/create - depth/breadth/transformation
Salable skills w/ purpose.
All races, colors, religions, genders come together at college to find out who they are, who they might be.
People in the middle engender change, ask: what are we enhancing.
ALL COLLEGE IS GOOD.
Action: ask what can we do in academics to give your students a better experience?
Action: ask what can you do for academics to help students have a better experience?
Can't afford to waste any part of education.
If people pay $50k for a 8:1 student/teacher ratio, shouldn't we give that to first generation college attendees ... the ones at risk.
Celebrate the classroom.
Re: grad school - it really narrows your focus while you're there, then you go back out to the world. Before tenure: they channel and stifle you, constraints are self-imposed by groupthink.
Classes are more valued if you withhold them, so GEs are first and often used as a hurdle to go through before you get to do what you want. What is wrong with Seniors in writing, or studying Shakespeare.
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