In February, we opened our 2012 series on design and construction trends in university buildings with a report on “fusion facilities”.
How central is technology to modern college life? This infographic breaks it down.
2012 #SCUP Excellence in Landscape Architecture – General Design, Honor Award goes to the University of Chicago for Midway Crossings with BauerLatoza Studio; also James Carpenter Design Associates; Schuler Shook; Matrix Engineering Corporation…
The Association for the Advancement of Sustainability in Higher Education (AASHE) has been named recipient of the SCUP 2012 K.C. Parsons Founders’ Award for Distinguished Achievement in Higher Education Planning.
“It may be hard to believe now, but in the 1920s people had to learn how to dial, much like we once learned how to text … .” How many of us look at digital reading and feeling like this?
Building Teams invested in programming, designing, and constructing collegiate residential facilities would do well to consider several trends that are influencing activities in this sector: • Alternative financing – Many universities are taking a…
In a SCUP–42 plenary session five years ago, professor of anthropology and digital ethnography, Michael Wesch, Kansas State University, shared his leading edge insights into students and the use of mobile learning technologies. We were thrilled when there was a brief interaction with some audience members via their cell phones.
What thrilled us then is commonplace now. professor Wesch—who is at the moment in Peru receiving an honorary doctorate—present The End of Wonder in the Age of Whatever on Wednesday, July 11, 2012, 11:00 am.
Abstract: “New media and technology present us with an overwhelming bounty of tools for connection, creativity, collaboration, and knowledge creation—a true “Age of Whatever” where anything seems possible. But any enthusiasm about these remarkable possibilities is immediately tempered by that other “Age of Whatever”—an age in which people feel increasingly disconnected, disempowered, tuned out, and alienated. What is needed more than ever is to inspire our students to wonder, to nurture their appetite for curiosity, exploration, and contemplation, and to help them attain an insatiable appetite to ask and pursue big, authentic, and relevant questions so that they can harness and leverage the bounty of possibility all around us.
We need to rediscover the “end” or purpose of wonder to stave off the historical end of wonder. No institution could be more central to this revitalization of wonder than our universities, our historical hubs for the free exchange of ideas and innovations. Yet recent studies show that key hallmarks of wonder such as academic motivation, openness to others, and the desire to contribute to art and science actually decrease while attending college. This presentation will explore what we are doing wrong, and what we are doing right, as we try to bring wonder back to our students and communities.”
These days, a law degree comes with $150,000 of debt — and no guarantee of a job after graduation…
Sometimes perception is reality, and this is a growing perception.
Amazon.com: Too Big to Know: Rethinking Knowledge Now That the Facts Aren’t the Facts, Experts Are Everywhere, and the Smartest Person in the Room Is the Room (9780465021420): David Weinberger: Books…
Sounds good. Anyone read it?
