Today’s Plan:
- Review the essay assignment/li>
- Generating a sense of contemporary debates in higher education from Twitter
- Homework
Review the Essay Assignment
I want to go around the room and ask everyone two questions (feel free to answer them in any order):
- What was one thing you emphasized?
- Who resonated with you most?
Questions in Contemporary Higher Education
For the second part of class today, I will ask you to contribute to a Google Doc I have started. Our goal is to create a kind of organized, annotated bibliography that lists contemporary issues in higher education. I’ve asked you to follow the Chronicle and Inside Higher Ed this semester because, while those are outlets for news on higher education, their primary audience *isn’t* students so much as faculty (although faculty often argue vigorously regarding what gets published there). I would also ask you to expand your search today, looking at the New York Times’ stories on education (though focus attention on higher education).
What we want to produce is a list of articles organized, loosely, around certain topics. Feel free to add a new topic if you find my list insufficient. As we move through longer the longer books the next few weeks, I will ask you to focus on one or two of these topics in your blog responses to the readings.
Homework
Read the preface and the introduction to Nathan’s My Freshman Year. Write a blog post about Nathan’s project; try to connect her vision or experience of the University to either a classical text we read and/or a contemporary issue we traced out today.
