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

--> 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) Insert non-formatted text here