Tomorrow, July 9th at 2:00pm EDT, I’ll join a great cast to discuss Reinvent the University for the Whole Person: Principles Driving Policy, and I hope many of you can watch. The other participants:
- Randy Bass (Vice Provost for Education and Professor of English at Georgetown University)
- Martha Kanter (Distinguished Visiting Professor of Higher Education at New York University & former U.S. Under Secretary of Education)
- Robert Groves (Provost at Georgetown University)
- Jeffrey Selingo (Author of College (Un)Bound: The Future of Higher Education and What It Means for Students)
- Tia Brown McNair (Senior Director for Student Success at the Association of American Colleges & Universities)
- Anthony Carnevale (Director of the Center on Education & the Workforce at Georgetown University)
The core idea for the series:
American higher education rarely has been more in the national spotlight than with the arrival of new digital technologies and new for-profit education businesses, among other big trends. In this rapidly changing landscape, the old model looks increasingly outmoded and many efforts are underway to begin to transform the system for the 21st century. Most efforts are focusing on making the system more efficient and producing a larger number of graduates to fit in a changing economy.
Very little thought is going into other valuable contributions that universities have provided in the past. Universities also produce future citizens, problem–solvers, leaders – not to mention knowledge that can drive innovation and economic growth. How do we ensure that these other critical outcomes will continue in the future? How can we build on new insights about learning and invent new ways to deliver and measure education that matters for a lifetime? How can we use new tools and approaches that are only available now to carry out the mission of educating for the whole person even better than before?
For the roundtable tomorrow, we’ll discuss:
What are the opportunities for shaping public policy for integrative education in a world that also needs more access, lower costs and workplace preparation? How do we ensure this focus is not elitist?
You can access the discussion on the Reinventors website here.
You can access the discussion within Google+ here.
