Reflections:
Paper Topics:
- Historicizing one’s experience
- Understanding the workings of systems. How the institutions are just one facet in a larger, relatively broken, educational system
- Collective knowledge & collaborative learning
- Pursuing careers in education
- How to prepare elementary students for what comes next, especially in a more technologically-oriented world
- Developed a stronger faith in higher education
- This semester in particular allowed us to see what students are demanding & where the institutions are willing to give
- Intergenerational dialogue is really important
- Missing intellectual conversations that are lead by peers & colleagues
- Talk about universal design in the office of disability services. But actually seeing it put in place in this classroom.
- Rotating note-takers!
- Very different being in the class with students, seeing what is due, deadlines – impacted how connections with students form
- Listen to news differently, read articles differently, conversations were different
- How realistic are my next goals?
- Being frustrated with the college experience, but always being expected to go. To come and not be satisfied, where can one find solutions
- This experience just complicates what is known about higher education discussions & conversations
- Will be able to take the information in and know what to do with it.
- Health services in higher ed
- Learning skills of resiliency & self-advocacy
- Learning to learn in general.
- Gathering a set of skills and taking them through life
- Democracy. How many voices go into that, how slow the process actually is, and being frustrated by it.
- Understanding more about why it happens that way
- Cultural shift: how can we affect a few people in a lifetime & be satisfied with that
- Issues with learning disabilities in higher education
- One of the few classes where you don’t sit around being frustrated about not being able to learn
- The topics, organization, community
- You got to understand the system in order to know how to change it
- Making higher education more accessible
- K-16 perspective
- How education can be used to change anything
- Creating a system that is more able to adapt
- The timing seems perfect, but maybe we just have a developed awareness to what is going on?
- So many protests & incidents going on within campuses throughout the country
- Technology in education
- This class is a survey of all the workings of higher education.
- Asking better questions to better facilitate discussions.
- K-12 Education
- What the institution of higher education is?
- The progression of education
- Which was created first, k-12 or higher education
- How they influence each other
- Wanting to take the course because of Steve!
- How to develop a good defense against the critics
- How college fits into a broader system
- In how universities are run, which universities exist
- Developing an awareness in how colleges produce workers in a knowledge-based economy
- The more I learn about this, the more I question whether everyone should go to college
- Political Correct culture
- From the student perspective; siding more with folks who are looking for safe spaces
- Taking this class because it is a good career move,
- What it means to be civilized, how future generations will judge us because of our civilization
- Maybe every generation feels like they are at a turning point, and have big decisions to make. And it is heart-warming to know that there is a community of people who are already thinking about these things
- The online nature of this class makes others skeptical
- The only thing left to cut is people, but the people are the most important part of what makes a good education. And the most important people are the students
- A renewed sense of hopefulness
- Perspective on the subject beyond a specific position (high school counselor)
- Put oneself in the colleges shoes, to see how things are being run & make customers feel like they are getting their money’s worth
- Take a look at the issues that I live on a day-to-day basis
- Some of the theoretical underpinnings that are absolutely brutal
- The roles of the neoliberal economies
- How they have molded these institutions
- The role of an intellectual community
- Interesting people to talk to
- This doesn’t really exist in the same way outside of college
- Self-knowledge to engage, lead, connect and think about how different themes relate
- Sophisticated awareness
- Theorize & practice – how to better meld those two
- Why teach this course:
- Sharing expertise, but not necessarily the best framework to organize a course
- To have partners in a conversation to think about but am not necessarily qualified to talk about
- “hey, I’m interested in this, let’s have a conversation about it”
Paper Topics:
- What makes American higher education American?
- There isn’t one solution to the issues of higher education, and there can’t ever be. Systems Theory.
- Adaptations. Making the system not only adaptable, but improved, accessible, less expensive, more learning
- Professors of Color in higher education
- How it’s a larger system of getting students of color through the entire educational system
- The Invisible Labor
- The Exodus of professors from HBC or other progressive institutions
- The ways of knowing are overwhelmingly coming from white, Christian ideals.
- When every history or English class is about white authors
- Culture of Safety and Academic Freedom
- When folks don’t come to the table as equals, there has to be a change in the table to make it equal
- What is academic research & how it is informed by European values
- A Guide for Professors on academic freedom, trigger warnings, safe classrooms
- Educational contract with Athletics
- Liberal arts college presidency
- Counseling services
- MOOCs & why Gamefication is the wrong strategy for higher educations
- Investing in the internet to get shit done
- But that systems can use games to adapt and make them more engaging
- Study the Free speech & Academic Freedom 1960s and now
- Pedagogical issues that come with prioritizing freedom over student safety
- Study abroad
- Moral quandaries, critiques, what makes a good study abroad program
- Tracking starts from kindergarten. It determines who will go on to higher education
- Admitting Black, low-income students into higher education