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This is the logo from my undergrad alma mater. There are a wide variety of topics, including education reform, that are suitable here.\u00a0 Currently I am working on an approximately 200 pp Creative Commons anthology\/textbook targeted primarily, but nor exclusively to the first-year college writing\/research\/rhetoric class.\u00a0 It will focus on theory of knowledge (epistemology), critical thinking, media literacy, and include climate-related essays to encourage research on the most important issue of our time.<\/p>\n
My focus on education reform started most tangibly when A Nation at Risk<\/em> was published in 1983, then another significant book that I encountered when consulting to Cambridge College (MA) was An American Imperative: Higher Expectations for Higher Education – An open letter to those concerned with the American future<\/em>, 1993.\u00a0 Produced by the Wingspread Group and accessible for loan at The Internet Archive unset0000unse_f9f1\u00a0 \u00a0<\/a> \u00a0 or https:\/\/openlibrary.org\/authors\/OL5113391A\/Wingspread_Group_on_Higher_Education<\/a><\/p>\n More background follows. I presented some ideas on epistemology at the colloquium at Naugatuck Valley Community College, April 22, 2016, \u00a0on The Role of the Liberal Arts in Higher Education and Democracy. \u00a0 The topic was “A Practical Strategy for Epistemological Engagement of Non-Traditional Learners in an Intensive, Required, Online Writing and College Research Class.” Without an organized body of accepted knowledge for humanity how can we ever work together effectively to manage our futures? \u00a0This doesn’t mean it is exclusive, or can’t change, but we need a common starting point for the common good of humanity. \u00a0 The spread of relativism just leads to conflict and Orwellian revisionism, and when combined with overconsumption and waste is worrisome. \u00a0FLYER<\/a><\/p>\n Here is the presentation with links built into it by way of a bibliography but it is now being incorporated into the anthology\/textbook to be published in the near future.\u00a0\u00a0 NVCCPresentation<\/a><\/p>\n Links alone\u00a0Links \u00a0 <\/a>This is a special link\u00a0 per permission of the author: Darlaston-Jones_19(1)<\/a><\/p>\n Attached is a large poster, four-feet long, as a PDF, that I made for an invitation only conference at Southern CT State U. \u00a0\u201cThe Challenges of Writing & Research in The Digital Revolution: Student Empowerment in a Required, OER, Online, Cornerstone Course\u201d\u00a0\u00a0 for the 4th Annual FAC Conference on Student Success and Shared Governance.\u00a0<\/strong>Southern CT State University April 13, 2018<\/em><\/strong> — \u201cPreserving Access, Building Futures, Creating Justice\u201d\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n Problems: The Knowledge Deficit & the Argument Culture in The Shallows —\u00a0<\/em><\/u>The Culture of Consumption & Job Automation, Time Famine, Distractions & (Dis)(Mis)Information<\/u><\/p>\n COSCPoster2018<\/a><\/u><\/p>\n\n\n Just FYI, for further discussion, this list of topic areas is from a call for proposals entitled<\/p>\n\n\n\n The Challenges to Public Higher Education in the Era of Globalization<\/em><\/strong>, April 3 2020 – 2020 FACULTY ADVISORY COMMITTEE CONFERENCE <\/strong>– At Western Connecticut State University, Danbury, C<\/strong>T<\/p>\n\n\n\n Now, the challenges to public higher education are multifaceted and amplified in this era of rising tuitions and administrative costs of public higher education; therefore, research scholars need to carefully and thoroughly examine these challenges as we move forward in this era of globalization because the development and diffusion of modern technologies arise from the acquisition of human capital provided by higher education. The challenges to public higher education became noticeable since the 1980s, just as globalization, which empowered many countries around the world to become more open to foreign trade and investment, gained momentum. The openness to international commerce and capital mobility, which led to the quick diffusion of modern technologies and global demonstration effects, came with many challenges. <\/p>\n\n\n\n 1. Funding of public higher education<\/strong>: What is the rationale for the reduction in the funding of public higher education in this era of globalization? Why would the government not fund public higher education the same amount it funds wars? Can public higher education survive from the skyrocketing tuitions and administrative costs? Can colleges and universities achieve optimum funding through external sources? What are some of the challenges and consequences if public higher education relies solely on external funding? <\/p>\n\n\n\n 2.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Digital pedagogies and immersive technologies in public higher education<\/strong>:\u00a0 <\/strong>Today, smartphones or cell phones, e-books<\/em> and online rentals <\/em>are the new alternatives to the traditional textbooks. How do we determine and measure the contributions of immersive technologies to the students\u2019 academic success or failure? Are laptops in the classrooms and the students\u2019 easy access to digital pedagogies helpful in the delivery of lectures?\u00a0 Do digital pedagogies and immersive technologies raise or undermine the quality of public higher education?<\/p>\n\n\n\n 3.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Contemporary issues in public higher education:\u00a0 Accessibility, diversity and equity were issues of major concerns or challenges in public higher education, which led to the creation of various offices to address these issues.\u00a0 Along with these issues, colleges and universities in public higher education are also confronted with the problems of enrollments, retention, and graduations rates.\u00a0 What factors explain the problems of low enrollments, retention, and graduation rates in public higher education? Are these problems in any form linked to the reduction in financial aid? <\/p>\n\n\n\n \n4.<\/strong> <\/strong>Corporatization\n of public higher education<\/strong>:\n While the main objective of any corporation is profit maximization if \nit wants to remain a viable corporation, the indisputable objective\n of higher education is the promotion of maximum accumulation of human \ncapital necessary for adaptability and sustainability. Will public \nhigher education be corporatized where profit maximization will \nsupersede human capital acquisition\/maximization? Will\n the introduction\/application of corporate strategies and\/or managerial \nstyles to colleges and universities minimize\/eliminate the challenges \nconfronted by public higher education? Will the surge in corporate \ninterests in higher education debase the basic premise\n of liberal arts education? Who are the gainers and losers when public \nhigher education is completely corporatized?<\/p>\n\n\n\n \n5.<\/strong> <\/strong>Structure\n of shared governance and curriculum management<\/strong>: \n The issues of shared governance and curriculum management remained \npivotal in the efficient and effective delivery\n of public higher education. The ongoing assault on share governance and\n curriculum management raises questions that academic leaders and \nresearch scholars need to confront. Will the struggle for complete \ncontrol continue to undermine the structure of shared\n governance and curriculum management in colleges and universities? What\n structure of governance [(a). Presidents, Regional Presidents, or \nChancellorship, and (b). Board of Trustees\n (BOT) vis-\u00e0-vis Board of Regents (BOR)] is ideal for public higher \neducation? Can public higher education survive from the skyrocketing \nadministrative costs? \n<\/p>\n\n\n\n 6. The effects of immigration on public higher education<\/strong>: In this era of globalization, immigrants from different countries worldwide qualify for admissions into many colleges and universities. Do we have adequate resources necessary to accommodate the rapid inflows of the new generation of immigrants into our colleges and universities? <\/p>\n <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" This is the logo from my undergrad alma mater. There are a wide variety of topics, including education reform, that are suitable here.\u00a0 Currently I am working on an approximately 200 pp Creative Commons anthology\/textbook targeted primarily, but nor exclusively to the first-year college writing\/research\/rhetoric class.\u00a0 It will focus on theory of knowledge (epistemology), critical … Continue reading Education<\/span>