Resolutions for Higher Education

Format Ideas: "Ten Resolutions on the Future of Higher Education"

• give context
• allow full range of access to course materials for community
• encourage all faculty to make materials available online for free
• connect to values
• prepare for future
• why...?
• preamble

Values:

• service to humanity

Whereas:

• technology does 'x'
• the college holds 'x' values
• our peers are engaging in 'x'
• it's super easy! (--> we have the intellectual and material resources)

So...

• --> Upshot for Social Justice -->
• --> Upshot for Students -->
• --> Public knowledge is public power -->
• --> The world is changing in 'x' ways -->

Resolved:

• we should provide facilities to make all course materials (professor work, student work, etc.) available freely to the public
• encourage all faculty to publish online
• highlight open journals
• provide for assistance to those faculty that wish to publish online but are unable

Rules of Higher Education:

• constructively encourage faculty and students to express ideas to the world
• provide means to members of the community to publish openly
• provide access to these ideas to humanity
• publish library collections
• space for students to publish
• establish and participate in efforts to engage in civil and informed discourse
• constructively contribute to the intellectual commons in cyberspace

(ideas from Freenet meeting on 3/8/11)

Draft 1:

The world is changing. We see it everyday. As this new world emerges, advances in information technology profoundly affect one's ability to share information. It is now essential that we consider the role of education in our society.