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vorkosigan1's avatar

To a very first approximation, there's an existing template in St. John's.

The Alignment Myth/G. Campbell's avatar

Coming from an academic family with lifelong association to universities, can I say that this was a really great read and on point. thanks.

Nils Gilman's avatar

I too come from an academic family — with profs back to the 18th century. So I know from the lore how much academia has changed over time.

doreen's avatar

College of the Atlantic. www.coa.edu

Geremie Barme's avatar

Nils: Ach, Bildung, formation, 修養 — to pursue the Glass Bead Game on this proffered Magic Mountain. Thank you. Geremie

Shoveltusker's avatar

I'm in! I would absolutely love to teach in this sort of place. One of the best parts of it would be having colleagues who share my sense that this is what we should be doing on behalf of our charges. As it is, I work among too many profs who really don't care much about teaching effectiveness.

I don't know how design education fits into this scheme, but I think it could. Also, I do a lot of travel-based teaching (in Rome doing that now; a 6-week driving-around the US program in the fall). I bet you could work that in as well.

Sally Schott's avatar

Heady stuff.

Courtesy proofreading correction: this sentence needs an OF inserted.

“…will be designed out OF the new institutions from the jump…”

Nils Gilman's avatar

this is what happens when one doesn’t use AI!

Sally Schott's avatar

Or designed to see if people are actually reading.

Congratulate yourself either way. My granddaughter is headed to university this year and there cannot ever have been a time of such uncertainty across so many domains.

Michael Schneider-Christians's avatar

For memory sake. I studied business at the university in Muenster, Germany, from 1969 until 1974, 9 semesters. One of my closest uni friends resided in a large dorm with a huge kitchen on each floor. Leonhard always told me that deep discussion came up when the students met in the kitchen to prepare their meals and were eating together. Plato and Oxford, decades ago.