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</nowiki>

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)